One astonishing example he shares with the Press took place just a few months ago, in a parking lot swarming with media crews from across the globe, along Jones Beach.
Agents and officers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York State, Suffolk and Nassau police departments—not to mention dive teams, fire, emergency services and medical examiner’s personnel—scoured the brush and sand dunes for additional human remains, victims of the still-on-the-loose Long Island serial killer.
Mangano and Krumpter showed up too, as did members of Nassau’s K-9 unit—which includes cadaver-sniffing dogs being so crucial in the every-second-counts search for bodies.
Unbeknownst to the hordes of cameras and reporters—who were offered a bus tour to snap photos of Nassau’s officers and dogs in action—yet surely known by county officials posing for pictures in the parking lot, the county didn’t have any cadaver dogs. So they paraded around bomb-sniffing dogs for the photo-op instead.
“When they did the Gilgo Beach search that time and they had the dogs down there, it was all a dog-and-pony show,” says Carver. “They’re having the appearance of dogs looking for bodies, that should be cadaver dogs, and we don’t have any.
“‘They just did that for the media,’” he quotes a member of the specialized unit as telling him.
“At that time, we didn’t have any cadaver dogs, and I believe that’s still the case today, that there’s no cadaver dogs,” he continues.
