The Gilgo 5: Details of Unidentified Remains

The police sketch released recently of one of the five remaining unidentified victims in the Gilgo serial killer investigation was initially posted on the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), a searchable national database built to help solve cases involving unidentified remains.

The data is provided on a daily basis by medical examiners and coroners located nationwide.

Several other Gilgo serial killer victims are listed in the database as well, and the records provide insight gleaned from the medical examination.

So far Suffolk Police have identified five of the 10 Gilgo Beach victims. Those five were all young women whom police believe worked as sex escorts using the online classified site Craigslist.

The remaining five victims include three women, a young female child and an Asian male.

Police have released sketches of two women and the male. A search of the NamUs database provides details recorded by the Suffolk County Medical Examiner’s office following examinations of four of the five victims:

Jane Doe No. 7: 

Sketch released January 7, 2012. Remains found in 1996 and 2011.

The victim was an adult white female between 18 and 50 years old. There is no estimation of her height.

The victim’s left and right legs were recovered on April 20, 1996, at Blue Point Beach in the vicinity of Davis Park, Fire Island. The victim’s skull was recovered on April 12, 2011, off Ocean Parkway in Nassau County. The victim’s torso and hands have not been discovered.

The victim’s right lower leg has a 3-1/2-inch scar on the lateral mid leg area, a 1-inch linear scar on the lateral mid to lower leg and a 1/2-inch scar on the medial ankle.

The left leg has a 2-inch surgical scar with adjacent suture scars on the medial left ankle.

The victim had red toenail polish on all toes and may have had surgery on her left ankle.

Jane Doe No. 6:

Sketch released September 20, 2011. Remains found in 2000 and 2011.

The victim was an adult white woman between the ages of 18 and 40 and stood about 5 foot 2 inches.

She was likely killed in 2000, the year her torso and left foot were recovered in Manorville on November 19. Her head, hands and right foot were recovered at Gilgo Beach on April 4, 2011.

Suffolk Police have stated that an adult 16-inch gold necklace and an adult women’s bracelet were found with the remains but the database report does not indicate that.

The database report states the victim’s right and left nasal bones had been fractured and healed.

Suffolk Police have stated the victim had a tattoo on her right ankle but the database report does not indicate that.

Toddler Doe:

No sketch released. Photos of jewelry found with remains released on September 20, 2011.  Remains found 2011.

The victim was a child between one and four years old and sex and race are undetermined according to the database report. The report states the child had been dead for a year and the remains, found April 4, 2011, at Gilgo Beach, were a near/complete skeleton.

One young girl’s gold colored chain and two gold colored hoop earrings were recovered from the body, according to Suffolk Police.

John Doe:

Sketch released September 20, 2011. Remains found April 4, 2011 at Gilgo Beach.

The victim was a male between 17 and 23 years old and is estimated to have been 5-feet 6-inches in height. The database report states the remains had been in the location for five years and that the victim may have had a musculoskeletal disorder that affected his gait. Suffolk Police have stated women’s clothing was found on the body. The report just notes clothing.

Suffolk Police also have stated the victim had poor dental hygiene and was missing his bottom molars though the online database report does not indicate that information.

As of press time Patch was unable to find a NamUs case file for Jane Doe No. 8, the fifth set of remains.

We will update the story when information on that medical examination is provided.