"The fact that he didn't use his own cellphone, but the victim's, means he's got to have a certain degree or street smarts or cunning. "The fact that he called the family was because he felt he could," says Mr. On Friday, the family of one of the slain women revealed that the presumed killer had called them seven times using her cellphone. The search for her is what led police to find the bodies of the killer's victims. Minutes later, the witness confronted a man who was looking for the woman. The witness called the police after she ran off. One witness on Long Island described seeing a frightened woman, later identified as Shannon Gilbert, scream for help outside his house before she disappeared last May, police say. (Some of the bodies were deposited there earlier.) Moreover, they were all killed within the past two years. So far, four victims have a unique tie: They were all female prostitutes who advertised on Craigslist. The latest two sets of remains were found Monday.
Since that initial discovery of four sets of human remains in New York's Suffolk County, investigators have found another four or five along similar stretches of beach highway in Suffolk and Nassau counties. Generally in a case like this, police have to get lucky, and they haven't yet."
"What they have are some remains that they found at a beach, and they're having a hard time figuring out who the victim is, much less who the killer is. "Why cases like this are so difficult to solve and why there are unsolved slayings of prostitutes all around the country is that police have very little to go on," says James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University, in Boston.
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Moreover, the murderer has displayed both cruelty and cunning, making it more difficult for police to crack the case, say criminologists. As a result, much of the physical evidence has eroded. The victims were killed elsewhere and their bodies deposited along the coast afterward, discovered after extended periods of lying exposed in thick beach scrub. So far, there are no actual crime scenes to scour. FBI planes and hundreds of agents have joined the all-out hunt, but experts say progress is as likely to come from an unexpected break as from a piece of hard evidence. The remains of at least eight bodies have been discovered since December along beaches of New York's Long Island – at least four of them believed to be victims of one killer. As the manhunt for the so-called Long Island serial killer intensified this week, it's become clear that officials are searching for a crafty criminal who has carefully covered his tracks – but who felt invincible enough to reportedly taunt one victim's family using the missing woman's cellphone.
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