UPDATE: Suffolk Police Beach Search Over

Suffolk Police are done, at least for now, searching brush along Ocean Parkway, from Robert Moses Causeway to the Nassau County line, for human remains. Nassau Police are expected to pick up the effort tomorrow as the four-month investigation into eight sets of human remains continues.

"We've done  a comprehensive, exhaustive search and pulled out all the stops," said Dormer, adding, "we'll be back in the days and weeks and months to come as the investigation continues."

The announcement was made today at a press briefing at a police command center established at the former OBI (Oak Beach Inn) on Ocean Parkway in Oak Beach.

Dormer said that both sides of the parkway were searched as was the community of Oak Beach.

"The terrain here is very difficult [to search]," said Dormer, pledging that the police "are not going to give up."

The Gilgo bodies investigation, now into day 118, began with a search of the beach area on Dec. 11, 2010 for Shannan Gilbert, a 24-year-old New Jersey woman last seen in Oak Beach on May 1, 2010.

Dormer said she was last seen on foot on the south side of the parkway.

While Gilbert's whereabouts remain unknown, police have since found eight sets of human remains, four of which have been identified at young, white females who worked as Craigslist escorts.

This week police closed the westbound lanes of Ocean Parkway, from Robert Moses Causeway to the Nassau County line, to continue searching for bodies and Gilbert.

On January 16, police identified one set of remains as Megan Waterman, a 22-year-old Maine woman who was reported missing this past June after last being seen in Hauppauge.  On January 24, the remaining three bodies were identified by the Suffolk County Medical Examiner. One is a 24-year-old North Babylon woman last seen in North Babylon on Sept. 2, 2010.

At previous press conferences both the police and the Suffolk District Attorney have stated the victims are the work of a serial killer.

The first four women identified were killed elsewhere and dumped in the thick underbrush along the parkway at various times over a span of at least a year, said police. Police have not provided any information related to the last four sets of remains.

The latest search effort included tower ladders from local fire departments for aerial viewing and involvement of 25 police recruits. Police said searching been hindered by weather conditions and the thick undergrowth beach vegetation.

During a press briefing earlier this week Suffolk Police Commissioner Richard Dormer pledged that the search effort would not end until the police were satisfied there were no more bodies to be found.