“Karen was a fabulous young woman with issues that arose during high school and manifested after graduation,” a classmate of Karen Vergata's told The Daily Beast.
murder victim previously known as “Jane Doe No. 7” as Karen Vergata, who was 34 when she vanished on Long Island in New York in 1996.
Two months later, Vergata’s father, Raymond, died at the age of 87. His obituary did not specify a cause of death. “Karen was a fabulous young woman with issues that arose during high school and manifested after graduation,” said the classmate, who asked not to be identified publicly. “I’m numb at the moment.”
A total of 11 bodies have been found in the Gilgo Beach investigations. Among them is the still-unidentified “Jane Doe No. 3,” commonly referred to asNew York City architectwas arrested last month and charged in three of the four murders often referred to as the “Gilgo Four.” He is the prime suspect in the fourth.
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