My apologies for the graphic imagery, but I do wonder or question if RH chose to further desecrate his victims by dismembering their remains because he did intend and/or actually did use the beach or accessible bodies of water to horrifically dispose of specific body parts, such as arms, calves or head, that he imagined would easily float out to the Atlantic due to their light weight, quickly sink and decompose rapidly or be consumed by the island’s returning shark populations and other opportunistic marine life drawn to them?
Perhaps, however, as his MO changed and he chose hide the remains of his victims whole or intact he decided against disposing them in the beach or nearby bodies of water because of his fear that they would be discovered by growing number of visitors to Ocean Parkway Beach area who participated in scuba diving expeditions, fishing, surfing and swimming competitions, boogie boarding and snorkeling off their sailboats or yachts. Unlike the the grassy and muddy marsh off the parkway, the waters of Gilgo Beach was heavily used and explored, particularly during the summertime by fishermen, sailors and tourists alike. In that case, RH possibly would have to rely on the sand, underwater plant life and sheer luck that the remains would not be incidentally discovered by those that happened to have either swum, dived, snorkeled, accidentally crash landed from their boards, used sonar or fish nets in the area where the remains were located. Even if he disposed of the remains at night from either the bridge or the beach, he would be at risk of being spotted by residents and vacationers who are either boating or fishing or in the waters below or spotted him as they drove or walked past on the bridges themselves or noticed him as they indulged in some overnight fishing and camping on one of the beaches nearby.
Not to mention, even if he did use sandbags on the remains, he would have to hope the surrounding marine life, particularly newborn great white sharks and tiger sharks, did not undo in their curiosity or frenzied hunger undo his sandbagging methods thereby increasing the risk of the remains floating to the surface or the tide causing them to drift back to the shoreline. Additionally, not only does the dumping human remains in open further violate the sanctity of person’s body or remains, and make them harder to find or locate, they also increase the risk of shark attacks among swimmers, surfers and divers. The parks and animal wildlife services, who were already actively and closely studying the animals and their new habitat, would have no choice but to investigate the cause of these attacks further increasing the chance of any remains being discovered in the water.
Fortunately the increase in these risks is exactly what we and LE would want in the pursuit of justice and the recovery and identification of RH’s remains victims and restoring their loved ones ability to fully grieve as they lay their beloveds to rest peacefully. Furthermore, in order for RH to use the beach as dumping site at night he would have to purchase a some type of permit to get access, meaning he would leave a paper trail behind. Sadly, however, RH likely recognized these risks and the chances of heinous crimes and murders coming to light or known to the public if he dumped whole body remains into the waters surrounding Gilgo Beach. Instead he took advantage of the cold hard-to-transverse grassland and lack of streetlights to successfully cover and hide his victims’ remains for years, further extending their loved ones’ suffering.
JMO/Just my own thoughts or theory
Of course could be wrong
RIP Theresa Cerney
History of Gilgo Beach from its beginning in the 1860s at Hemlock Cove to the Gilgo Beach surf culture in 1960s.
gilgo.com
Rex Heuermann, 60, has been charged with killing six women, more than a decade after 10 bodies were found during the Long Island search for a missing woman.
www.nbcnews.com
A West Hampton beach was closed of after a group of sharks were spotted 15 feet off the coast. The 18-foot long shark sightings have shocked residents and beach goers.
www.dailymail.co.uk
