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We Got This Covered
We Got This Covered
Jonathan Wright

“Is it a cop?”: Long Island feared to find a serial killer wearing the badge, but the truth was much worse

For nearly two decades, a serial killer in Massapequa lived three streets away from people who hunted him for a living.

Massapequa is a small town perched on Long Island’s South Shore, an hour from Manhattan and home to more police officers per square mile than almost anywhere else in New York. No, I’m not making that number up. Massapequa has so many cops that its residents probably can’t throw a donut without hitting an off-duty officer by accident.

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