Careful walking dogs in Long Island, you never know when you might find human remains. At the end of last week another set of remains were found in Manorville, Long Island—the fourth set to be found in the same general area since 2000. Two of the previous bodies found have been linked to the corpses uncovered on Gilgo Beach over the last year.
"At this time we cannot say if the remains are connected to any other cases," Suffolk County Deputy Inspector Kevin Fallon said at a news conference Saturday. "We cannot yet determine the age or the gender of the remains."
The body was found Friday evening by a man and his dog at the Upton Ecological Research Reserve by the Brookhaven National Laboratory. "He said he was heading home after hunting deer when he discovered the body, which looked like it had once been wrapped in a bedsheet and a plastic bag." They were found 300 feet from North Street, which is north of the LIE.
Initial reports say the corpse was believed to have been about five years old. They were found four miles from where the partial remains of Gilgo victim Jessica Taylor were discovered more than eight years ago. Another woman, still known only as Jane Doe No. 6, were found in a Manorville sump discharge basin in 2000. Other parts of Jane Doe No. 6 were discovered near Gilgo last April.
"I saw something weird sort of sticking out of the ground so I decided to take a look," Matt Samual, who found the body, told reporters.
