BREAKING NEWS: Top prosecutor on Long Island serial killer case identifies 'Fire Island Jane Doe'
Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney announced Friday that the Gilgo Beach task force has identified remains found on Fire Island in 1996 as Karen Vergata.Tierney said Vergata's severed legs and feet were found April 20, 1996, on Bay Shore, and she was dubbed"Fire Island Jane Doe." More than 15 years later, in 2011, her skull was found off Ocean Parkway.
Vergata, who lived in Manhattan, was last seen on Valentine's Day 1996 but was not reported missing. She was believed to be working as an escort at the time, Tierney said. Rex Heuermann, the architect accused of murdering at least three women near Long Island’s Gilgo Beach, appears before Judge Timothy P. Mazzei in Suffolk County Court on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, in Riverhead, New York.
"In August of 2022, approximately six months after we formed this Gilgo task force, a DNA profile suitable for genealogical comparison was developed for Karen Vergata," Tierney said at the news conference."In September 2022, the FBI was able, via a
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