Been following the LISK story since it broke in 2010. I was unaware until browsing this thread that a connection between Peaches and the Gilgo remains had been made. It interests me because I grew up only a few hundred yards from the location where the first remains were found. I was in High School and I remember it very well as we always hung out in the park. I know the exact spot where the Rubbermaid bin was found. Its at the bottom of a slight incline off the side of the road in a heavily wooded area that is only a few hundred feet from a very heavily trafficked part of the park. Its no wonder that in late June the bin was found within a few days of being dumped. From knowing both Hempstead Lake Park and Jones/Gilgo Beach very well, I find the manner in which Peaches and Baby Doe were disposed of either very sloppy or very bold. For one, the Hempstead Lake location is on a winding wooded road just off the Southern State Parkway that has fairly decent traffic and is only a few hundred yards past a State Park police station. The killer would have pulled off Exit 18 and driven right past the station house. After pulling around a hard bend in the road he pulled over, got out, picked up the bin and dropped it in the woods at the bottom of the decline at the side of the road. Maybe a ten foot drop at most. The parks police could have pulled around the bend at any moment. 200 yards up the road is Peninnsula Blvd., a heavily trafficked road. He likely would have only had a minute or two at most before a car came from either direction down Lakeside drive, even at 3 AM. Then its a 15-20 minute drive back to the parkway, to the meadowbrook or Wantagh parkway and down to Jones Beach if he indeed did enter the park at the western end which would make the most sense for times sake. Once on Jones Beach if further remains were then deposited in the location they were found in 2011, it would have been an equally bold place to do so. The area is right next to Zach's Bay which is a popular overnight docking spot where people basically drop anchor, party all night and sleep in their boats in the quiet little cove. Whats more this area is well lit and in full view of the brightly lit Jones Beach Amphitheater which is probably the most high profile area of the park and the spot most likely to run into police patrols. Whats more, I looked it up, and if they estimate that Peaches was killed within 3 days of the discovery of her Torso (Jun 28th, 1997), Lynard Skynard played the amphitheater on Thursday night June 26th. There would have been a lot of people anchored in the bay listening to the show, tons of cars leaving the amphitheater well after midnight and loads of cops and security in the area. Its like this 20-25 nights a year in the summer, its amazing that the remains could just lay there yards off the road in the brush for 15 years without being discovered. Again, an extremely risky and bold place to dump body parts. The location of Baby Doe's remains would have also been in a risky location as well, only about 60 seconds or so shy of the Robert Moses bridge where any number of people could come off the bridge at a high rate of speed and be upon you within 45-60 seconds. A car pulled over on the side of the road in the middle of the night would surely attract attention. The Gilgo location further west is far more desolate and has a straight line of sight that would allow one to see approaching headlights probably a mile ahead in either direction giving someone far more time to know whether the coast was clear. I don't know if the murders are related, but I tend to think the killer is either very bold, almost reckless, or this was their first go around and were just sloppy and nervous. I tend to think the newer bodies have no relation to these earlier remains. But who knows, maybe the killer became more cautious over the years.
So much potential there to help chronicle and find people just going to waste.
