Last year, a prostitute ran up to a house in Oak Beach, Long Island frentically asking for assistance, when she ran away - and was never seen again. A search was made for her in the nearby beachline, where five female bodies were found. None were her. Last week, another search was made, and three more prostitutes who worked on Craigslist were located. Again, none of them were the girl from last year. So, the search continues this week....
The thing that makes this case different is the area where the bodies have been found: Ocean Parkway, just a mile or two from where I worked my summer job at Robert Moses. Ocean Parkway is a 12 mile two lane road between Captree Island and Jones Beach on a strip of barrier island no wider than a couple hundred yards - so thin that hurricanes often blow across the road.. It might seem impossible for someone to bury 8 bodies on the roadside dunes without anyone seeing something, but as busy as the road is during the day, at night it is pretty desolate.
The cops seem to have an idea of who the killer is, but they're not outright saying it yet. One would think it's a local from either nearby Oak Beach, Gilgo Beach or Captree. Between the three, there couldn't be more than 1000 residents in the pricey area. Finding the local kook or sociopath souldn't be tough - not as tough as getting the hard proof needed to convict whoever he/she is...
The westbound (Inlet Side) lanes of Ocean Parkway will be closed again tomorrow all day, as police in Nassau and Suffolk Counties comb the dunes for more evidence, and possibly more bodies. Where this all leads to, no one knows for sure yet. Hopefully it end with an arrest and conviction, and the area will be a haven for fun... like I remember it.
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