"It is nice to have closure," said Brenda Breen, the stepsister of Karen Vergata.
"To me, it is miraculous, it gives me chills to know how science [can work]," said Tricia Hazen, the half-sister of victim Valerie Mack, who was identified in 2020.
The Suffolk County DA said a federal grant given to the New York City medical examiner for forensic and anthropological investigation also was used in all the Gilgo cases.
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“It makes me feel hopeful that something will be resolved,” Pamela Brewer, Jodi Brewer’s mother, said in an interview from her home in Oregon.
“There are similarities, but I could only just get my hopes up and cross my fingers,” said the victim’s sister Jacqueline Brewer, who was 13 when her sister died.
In Las Vegas, Jodi Brewer’s case has been linked to other similar unsolved killings where the dismembered remains of young women were found off the side of the road. Brewer’s remains were found near I-15 and Cima Road, about 25 miles from the Nevada state line.
In a 2008 Review-Journal story, Las Vegas police said they were
investigating possible links between the cases of women who had been sex workers who were killed or who had disappeared. They included Brewer, Lindsay Harris and Jessica Foster, as well as possibly a fourth person, Misty Saens.
Jodi Brewer’s family and friends think her unsolved 2003 slaying could be connected to Rex Heuermann.
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