Feds Launch Aerial Scans For Possible NY Serial Killer Victim
Federal investigators are about to start flying planes and helicopters over Long Island's Oak Beach to aid in the search for 24-year-old prostitute Shannan Gilbert, who went missing last May. The search turns more grisly by the day as the remains of victims of a presumed Long Island serial killer are found: A tenth…
Police Find More Human Remains on Long Island
Bodies just keep turning up on Long Island, where police are searching for a serial killer (who is "maybe" a cop himself) believed to be responsible for the deaths of at least four prostitutes. Today, a police dog uncovered a bag stuffed with "upper and lower extremities" about three miles from where the police had…
America's Worst Drug Dealers Swap Fake Cocaine for Fake Money
Two Brooklyn and Long Island drug crews probably thought they had one-upped each other in a deal last month when the Brooklyn guys sold the Long Island guys crushed-up sheetrock as cocaine for $16,000 in counterfeit bills. What dumbasses.
Christmas Churchgoers Given Hepatitis-Infected Communion Wafers
Think the War on Christmas doesn't exist? How do you explain this? Health officials are warning people who went to mass on December 25 at a Long Island Church that they were exposed to hepatitis A during communion. Very sneaky!
Congressman Peter King Has No Clue What He's Talking About
Future Homeland Security Committee chair Rep. Peter King (R - N.Y.) takes to the pages of Newsday to ask: "What's radicalizing Muslim-Americans?" We can help you with that, Congressman King! Nothing is radicalizing Muslim-Americans, because Muslim-Americans aren't radicalized. Case closed!
Looks Like New York's Got a Serial Killer
Authorities have confirmed that all four bodies found on a Long Island beach over the weekend are female, meaning that, yes, there's a good chance we're looking at the work of a serial killer.
Four Bodies Found on Long Island Beach
Four bodies were found at Long Island's Oak Beach, including one thought to be that of Shannan Gilbert, a 24-year-old prostitute who disappeared in May. Authorities believe the same person—or "team of people"—is responsible for all four.
Licking Medical Waste Will Get You High
Long Island nurse Erick St. Louis was arrested for allegedly stealing medical waste in search of Fentanyl patches, a potent cancer drug, which he would suck like "an artichoke" to get high. Then he'd dump the waste on a playground.
American Dream Beaten With American Flag
Yavuz Erdogan is the human embodiment of the American Dream: a Turkish immigrant who became a U.S. citizen, he owns his own business in Levittown, the archetypal American suburb. On election night, an ex-cop beat him with an American flag.
Eight-Year-Old Stabbed Five Times at Dave and Buster's
A "wild-eyed" movie theater usher named Evan Sachs stabbed an eight-year-old kid on Friday night at a Dave and Buster's in Long Island. According to police, Sachs was carrying a note spelling out his plans "to harm somebody."
'Trump-Branded Country Club' Sounds About Right for Long Island
Wiped out by Madoff's Ponzi scheme, members of a Long Island country club may slap Donald Trump's name on everything and become a "'Trump-branded' country club," thereby raising money and helping their borough beat New Jersey in a tackiness competition.
Body Armor Manufacturers Are Legally Entitled to Hookers
Quite a story in the NYT today about the trial of David Brooks, CEO of a body-armor company who ripped off the US military for millions. Okay, maybe his $100,000 belt buckle was excessive. But the prostitutes? Totally legit.
Guy In a Darth Vader Costume Holds Up Bank
It's finally happened: A guy wearing a Darth Vader costume robbed a bank in New York. A mask: cape, chest-piece, everything. What's most amazing is that this didn't happen at Comic-Con.
Short Fireworks Fuse Blamed for Loss of Limb on Long Island
New York's first major Fourth of July fireworks-related casualty: A man on Long Island yesterday blew his arm off using a mortar tube. His friends packed the limb into a cooler with ice, and doctors are trying to reattach it.
Dead Whale Washes Up On Long Island
A dead baleen humpback whale calf washed ashore near Jones Beach State Park on Long Island Thursday morning showing signs of decomposition, leading park officials to believe it had died at sea. [LI Press; Getty]
Amityville Murder House Now On Sale
The house, located at 108 Ocean Avenue (formerly 112) in the Long Island town, is the site of a grisly multiple murder and the basis for The Amityville Horror, about a haunted murder house. It's only $1.15m! Buy it...
Harold Ford Is Going to a Castle
Harold Ford will leave Manhattan this week. The next stop on the would-be candidate's Listening Tour is not a 35th-floor hotel bar or legendary midtown restaurant. No—next up, Harold Ford, man of the people, is going to a castle!

