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Interesting angle. It may be quite possible that she was given a drug at the JB house that triggered a vision in her. All of a sudden something connected the dots for her.

I realize this is an old post. Ridgway was interrogated and high on a short list of suspects long before he was caught. They kept coming back to him, he was hard to completely exclude. What stops a serial killer? My theory is a common one, death and being locked up are the most likely. My...

I can go with 3 killers, maybe 4. The thing that skews the one killer theory is the convenience of the area to getting in and out of the area fast. The dump site is a no-man's land between West Oak Beach and Gilgo. Even someone casual to the area can pick that out. The GB4 are one killer for...

I'll have to time it this week. Traffic on 27A is light at the early morning hours, it could probably be done in 10 or 12 minutes. Oak Beach to the causeway is about 2 minutes, causeway to 27A is 5 or 6 if you speed. The run to CVS from there is 4 or 5.

Speaking of summer, I wonder why there was no detectable smell from the bodies. Even a small dead animal, the stench goes pretty far. Of course the shoreline does have that low tide smell of its own. Was any trace of lime or quick lime detected in any of the sites?

Burlap was handy, it would break down faster than plastic and not be detected. It would blend in with the under brush. IF the killer was from Oak Beach for example, the area is between a couple of convenient turn-arounds on the OP. An easy 2 minute drive if he ever wanted to visit the site again.

Most of the harmful deer ticks are over on Fire Island where the deer population flourishes. But there are the larger ticks that find their way onto cats and dogs. I had one on me as a kid and my mom brushed it with lighter fluid and it backed out. Dogs will avoid poison ivy by instinct. People...

The theory of snuff films comes up now and then. Even un-filmed they have an appeal to a certain demographic. Look at the Oak Beach community as an example. People with money and free time on their hands. They choose isolation for a variety of reasons. I've looked at houses on OB and Gilgo but...

I think I read something about the FBI finally doing a profile on the case. It would be interesting to read the report. The LISK case killer fits the "trophy collector" suspect profile. He has a need to go back and look at his victims. Another reason for keeping it close to home.

Whoever the killer was, he wanted to be able to go back and admire his handiwork now and then, one of the behavioral habits of a serial killer. Look at Ridgway in SeaTac, he did the same thing. They were "buried" enough to be out of sight unless you were looking for them. Burying a body in the...

I'm late to the thread, but not everyone knows that parts of Hemlock Cove are known as Garbage Cove for all the trash that comes in with the tide and stays. This would dissuade anyone from approaching the burial area from the water by accident.

I agree with parts of this theory. I think she could have doubled back and made it to the OP and was picked up by car. Maybe she ran from the car at that point into the marsh, or was strangled and dumped? That is quite a distance to travel by dark on that terrain, although she could have...

You can easily step into a hole in the marsh and be thigh-deep in mud in a flash. If you lack the strength to extricate yourself, you are in trouble. I'm glad that the poison ivy was brought up. Locals know enough not to step too far off the highway or even on your own property. In colder months...

Another thing with gravestones, it was around 1978 and we ran across an abandoned monument factory, possibly in Copiague. There were hundreds of stones available for the taking, some were small grave markers, others were too big to pick up even with big equipment. Quite possible that those...

Serial killers study other serial killers, it may be a mutual admiration thing. They are also somewhat of celebrities in jail. I recall being told a story by a guard in the Nassau County lock up, Rifkin was having an argument with Colin Ferguson about who killed more, Ferguson's come back was...

I recall lots of bodies being found on LI when I was a kid. People would wander off from nursing homes, hospitals and die of exposure most of the time if they were old and frail. There were searches that often turned up nothing.. for a while. Places like Manorville, Wading River and anywhere...

Burlap bag use may have been an outlier with the Jessica remains. It may have been something handy at the time. It may be possible that there is some overlap on the killer with her remains so close to the GB4 girls. The location is still west of the Great South Bay bridges. I drive past the...

About the burlap bags, a couple of theories. Nursery plants used to come in them years ago, wrapped around the ball of a tree at times. It was never revealed if the bags has any ID on them, meaning from a commercial bulk item although a paste-on label can be removed. Clams often were sold in...