Updated: Thursday, December 16, 2010, 9:36 AM Cops revealed Wednesday that the four bodies dumped on a beach by a suspected serial killer were all women. The development comes as homicide detectives held a sitdown with to discuss the case. 'The FBI has offered all available resources in support of our investigation,' Commissioner Richard Dormer said in a statement Wednesday afternoon.

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A forensic anthropologist from the medical examiner helped authorities establish the gender of the decomposing corpses discovered by a cadaver dog near, L.I. The victims have yet to be identified. Cops were looking for clues to the fate of prostitute when they discovered the remains on Saturday and Monday.

Why the Long Island Serial Killer Holds Us Hostage The Cold Case Squad, Dec. 2011 Dating back to “Jack the Ripper,” who terrorized London, England, and the world in the 1880s, serial killers have captured our collective imagination while sending chills down our spines.

An early analysis suggests none is Gilbert - who vanished in May after a sex romp in a gated community in Oak Beach. 'Preliminarily, it doesn't look like it is her,' Dormer told the Daily News Tuesday. The bodies were found on a narrow island off Long Island's South Shore, between Gilgo Beach and Cedar Beach. The area is about three miles west of the, a private community where Gilbert was last seen alive on May 1. The tattooed 24-year-old, who lived in and had a history of cocaine and marijuana use, was last seen by her pimp running frantically out of a john's pad inside the gated community. A woman who answered the phone at the john's mother's home on Long Island Wednesday said she knew nothing of the alleged tryst. 'He was with her?

He's not even here. He's not even in Long Island,' she said before abruptly hanging up. Police use a dog to search the brush in the area where bodies were found. The john's neighbor, 75, said Gilbert was crazed and clearly high when she pounded on his door, begging for help. 'She was just screaming at the top of her lungs and banging on the door,' he told The News.

'When I opened the door, she almost fell into the house. I said, 'What is the matter?' She just looked at me and started screaming. 'She said, 'Help me! She didn't say anything about people trying to hurt her,' Coletti said, adding that she ran off when he offered to call police.

Dormer said investigators have interviewed the john and Gilbert's pimp. Another resident of the gated beachfront community described the john as an oddball. 'That guy always gave me the creeps,' the neighbor said. 'One night about two months ago, he parked a van on the side of the house. It was the strangest thing,' the neighbor added. 'He and another man were packing the truck up in the dark. They moved real fast.

It took about fifteen minutes. They didn't turn any lights on except one little light.

That was the last time I saw him.' Dormer said police are operating on the assumption the victims were slain by a single murderer who drove to the area and dumped the bodies in the roadside brush. 'We could have a serial killer,' he said at a Tuesday press conference. 'I don't think it's a coincidence that four bodies ended up in this area.'

He would not say if there was any sign of trauma or confirm a report that two of the bodies were wrapped in burlap. Programs download for laptops. Police use a dog to search the brush in the area where bodies were found. (Handout) 'It does look like the bodies were there for some time,' Dormer said. 'You can tell from the physical evidence that it's possible they were there for a year, a year and a half, two years.' But Dormer said there are aspects of the investigation he is keeping under wraps. 'There's certain information about the crime scene, and about the condition of the bodies, that we can't make public,' he said without elaborating.

As authorities work to identify the bodies, they will be checking for tell-tale evidence showing the victims were slain by the same killer, one expert said Wednesday. 'Serial killers typically have some sort of a signature,' said, who teaches classes in criminology and sociology at in.

', of course, his signature was the ripping of the bodies,' added. 'So if the forensic evidence itself - depending upon the bones or flesh or whatever is left - if it allows for that sort of identification, that would be one way of using forensic evidence to link these murders.'

Gilbert used to find escort work - as did a woman who went missing in during the summer. Maine cops investigating the disappearance of, 22, have spoken with Suffolk police about the Oak Beach bodies. Waterman traveled to Long Island with her boyfriend, 21, of. She was last seen at a Hauppauge hotel. Cruz is currently locked up at the in Windham, ME, a state corrections official told the. He was sentenced in November to a 20-month hitch for drug trafficking, the paper reported.

Prosecutors said they have spoken with cops about similarities between the Long Island cases and four dead prostitutes found behind the Black Horse Pike motel four years ago.

Doc Bonn on Serial Killers Background Serial killers hold the fascination of the public, whether in true crime news accounts of individuals such as Ted Bundy or fictional depictions such as the television shows Dexter and Criminal Minds or popular movies such as the “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” or “Silence of the Lambs.” Serial killers seem so purely predatory and unremorseful that our society cannot help but display a macabre interest in them. Although they account for no more than 1% of the approximately 15,000 homicides in the U.S. Annually, serial killers receive a disproportionate amount of media attention due to the incomprehensible savagery of their deeds. Significantly, serial killers differ from mass murderers or spree murderers. A mass murder can be defined as the killing of multiple people at a single location where the victims may be either randomly selected or targeted.

A mass murderer is often killed at the scene of the crime; sometimes by his/her own hand. A spree murder is the killing of multiple people at different locations over a short period of time (the maximum duration is usually 7 days). The killer in spree murders often but not always knows his/her victims, and most often targets family members or romantic partners.

I use the following list of behavioral criteria to define serial homicide for the purposes of my research: 1. At least three murdered victims.

The murders take place in separate events, at different times. The killer experiences an emotional cooling off period between murders. The key distinction between serial killers and mass or spree killers is this emotional cooling off period in which the killer blends back into his/her seemingly normal life. The predator reemerges to strike again when the urge to kill becomes overwhelming. The duration of the cooling off period can vary from weeks to months or even years, and varies by killer.

Dennis Rader or “Bind, Torture, Kill” (BTK) had 10 known victims over nearly 30 years! There is some disagreement over the serial killer definition, mostly about the number of killings required. There is also debate as to whether organized crime hit-men should be considered serial killers.

Doc Bonn argues that they are not serial killers because their motivation is purely business and their killings fulfill no emotional needs. Serial killers are driven to murder by urges and fantasies that they frequently do not comprehend. Doc Bonn’s Research Doc Bonn is currently researching and writing a popular book on the public’s fascination with serial killers titled, 'Why We Love Serial Killers,' published by Skyhorse Press for release in 2014. This book examines the social processes through which serial killers often become morbid pop culture celebrities.

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The book seeks to answer the following:. What are the roles of the popular media, state officials and the killers themselves in the social construction of serial killers’ public identities?. Why are so many people fascinated with serial killers?. What social-psychological needs do serial killers fulfill for the public? In order to help answer these questions, Doc Bonn is exploring the mysterious, psychopathic criminal minds of infamous serial killers. Ironically, and perhaps shockingly, this book proposes that serial killers may actually serve a function in society by clarifying the meaning of “evil” and setting moral boundaries—that is, by helping to establish the outer limits of what one human being can do to others.

Doc Bonn believes that it is quite natural for people to be fascinated by why serial killers commit their murders and for their grizzly exploits to become media spectacles. Let us know what you think about this topic.

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Message Doc Bonn on his contact page. Who are the ten scariest serial killers ever captured? Read and see if you agree! The Cold Case Squad, Dec. 2011 Dating back to “Jack the Ripper,” who terrorized London, England, and the world in the 1880s, serial killers have captured our collective imagination while sending chills down our spines. Although they account for only a small fraction (perhaps 2%) of the 17,000 or so murders each year in the U.S., sexual psychopaths captivate many of us, in part, because of the unimaginable savagery of their deeds.

There is currently an unidentified killer of ten people (including at least six female prostitutes) whose bodies, some dismembered, were found on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, between December, 2010, and April, 2011. New York Times, Dec. 2010 Scott A. Bonn, a professor of sociology at Drew University in Madison, N.J., who lectures on criminology and serial killers, warned that finding clues could hinge on the state of decomposition of the bodies. “If the bodies are too far decomposed,” he said, “you would not have that evidence.” New York Times, Apr. 2011 Scott Bonn, a serial-killer researcher and assistant professor of sociology at Drew University in New Jersey, said the explanation was simple.

Because serial killers often prefer to live in densely populated areas — for easy access to potential victims — it is not a surprise that three of them who specialized in sex workers had turned up over two decades in a place with a population of 2.8 million. “The odds that you would have these three guys in rural Mississippi in that time period are far less likely than in a densely populated area like Long Island,” he said. New York Magazine, Apr. 2011 The experts consulted had access only to the data that's been made public thus far, such as the fact that four of the bodies were prostitutes who advertised on Craigslist. Bonn explained: “He has to be persuasive enough and rational enough that he is able to convince these women to meet him on these terms.

He has demonstrated social skills. He may even be charming.” New York Daily News, Dec. 2010 'Serial killers typically have some sort of a signature,' said Professor Scott Bonn, who teaches classes in criminology and sociology at Drew University in New Jersey. 'Jack the Ripper, of course, his signature was the ripping of the bodies,' Bonn added. 'So if the forensic evidence itself - depending upon the bones or flesh or whatever is left - if it allows for that sort of identification, that would be one way of using forensic evidence to link these murders.' 2011 “If you have not heard of this predator,” Bonn says, “it is probably because he specializes in killing sex workers, including prostitutes he contacts using Craigslist, a classified advertising site on the Internet. The ongoing investigation has received modest media attention and mostly in the New York area.

However, if the killer was not focusing on marginalized members of society—that is, mostly female sex workers—this case would be a national media phenomenon.” ( read the complete Q&A interview at the link).