Karen Vergata has been identified as the sixth Gilgo Beach murder victim.
new information in the Gilgo Beach killings, an investigation that kicked off in 2010 when a body was found on a remote stretch off Long Island’s Ocean Parkway; three more bodies were found within a one-mile radius and another six were found the following spring., along with Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25; Melissa Barthelemy, 24; Amber Costello, 27; Megan Waterman, 22 and Shannan Gilbert, 23.
on six counts of murder last month in connection with the deaths of Brainard-Barnes, Barthelemy and Costello, and is also a suspect in the death of a fourth woman who disappeared in 2007 and had her remains discovered near the other women.It was the search for Shannan Gilbert that led to the initial discovery of the first body in the town of Oak Beach, about 40 miles east of Manhattan in 2010.
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