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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jake Offenhartz

Florida man charged in 1997 killing of woman once linked to Gilgo Beach murders

Gilgo Beach-Killings - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

For years, the 1997 killing of a young woman found in a Long Island state park — her body dismembered, left unidentifiable beyond a tattoo of a peach — seemed destined to remain unsolved.

That all changed in 2011, when investigators discovered new skeletal fragments, along with the body of her 2-year-old daughter, while combing a beachfront strip near Gilgo Beach as part of what would become an infamous investigation into women murdered in the area.

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