New York State Police confirmed Thursday evening that human remains were discovered at Hempstead Lake State Park in West Hempstead.
Police said the investigation is ongoing and no identification was released.
I was just looking at the "possible Victims" thread and Redbird's list...Hempstead has been a dumping grounds before.
This post was of great interest to me re: Hempstead:
http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7313293&highlight=Colleen+Gray+Long+island#post7313293
Possible Victims
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Posted By Redbird
Long island murders and missing 1980-2011
UNSOLVED MURDERS, MISSING PERSONS, AND THE UNIDENTIFIED ON LONG ISLAND 1980=2011
To aid me in my own sleuthing and because I have OCD, I have been working on a list of unsolved murders and...
June 28, 1997 found: (Probably died June 25, 1997) PEACHES, unidentified black woman, torso found with head and hands cut off, found by a hiker in Hempstead Lake State Park. She was wrapped in a black plastic garbage bag and stuffed into a dark-green Rubbermaid container with a floral pillow sham and frayed red towel. found by a hiker among the heavy roadside brush of West Hempstead’s Lakeside Drive. A scar on the woman’s lower abdomen showed she had given birth by Cesarean. Peach tattoo on her left breast. An autopsy revealed she had been dead no more than three days when she was found. A Connecticut tattoo artist recognized the picture and remembered the girl he had given it to, a young black woman, aged 16-30, visiting from Long Island. She came into his shop with her aunt and and cousin, and she mentioned something about having boyfriend problems...
And this one about Melissa B that relates to the Budget and Best Western Motels as well as the other phone in Times Square area:
July 12, 2009 MELISSA BATHELEMY DOD 7/12/2009 vanished from Bronx (Underhill Ave.) sitting on curb; apt w/5 cats(Sunday)/ got call from Massapequa. LI. Eight days after Melissa's disappearance, her sister, Amanda, began to receive calls, The caller ID indicated the call came from Melissa's cellphone.
Mother said they received five more calls, the last one on August 26, 2009. Ms. Barthelemy saw a client and then deposited $900 into her bank, around the time she vanished, she checked her voice mail from Massapequa, L.I. July 10, 2009, she checked her voice mail from two motels in Massapequa, a Budget Inn and a Best Western.
They traced a second phone that belonged to her to an ex-con who said he picked it up after a tussle between hookers in Times Square orchestrated by a pimp. Boyfriend Blaze, aka Terry, Escort Agency: James Bond Entertainment as Chloe I found a single ad for Melissa posting as chloe, under the one number. She advertised various services to include Domination/BDSM & Fetish/Role Play. She advertised as out call only, charging $100/15 min, $150 half hour, $250 hour, and $1000 overnight. Her pictures indicated she did car dates as well. Earlier that evening, the blond beauty told her boyfriend that she might be going to Long Island, a frequent haunt of hers. She regularly hung out there with a girlfriend who also worked as an online escort, as well as at the home of a regular client. Her boyfriend said he would oftentimes pick her up from the john's house. "She had some older man she was chummy with." Eight days after Melissa's disappearance, her sister, Amanda, began to receive calls, The caller ID indicated the call came from Melissa's cellphone.
Lynn said they received five more calls, the last one on August 26, 2009. if we are to believe MB's boyfriend, he also received taunting calls. Interesting to note that the boyfriend says the caller appeared to be drunk. Terry said the anonymous caller called him more than 30 times over a period of eight months. Apparently on July 10, 2009, she checked her voice mail from two motels in Massapequa, a Budget Inn and a Best Western. This is from NYC 1/26/11. The significance of this is that she apparently had multiple "dates" on LI and it is close to certain that she made the two voicemail calls herself. This still places the SK in South Shore LI but not necessarily Massapequa.