Latest Gilgo Serial Killer Beach Search Reveals No New Clues

No new evidence or clues were discovered during Monday’s six-hour beach search along Ocean Parkway in the ongoing Gilgo Beach serial killer investigation and the missing person case of Shannan Gilbert, according to Suffolk Police.

Further searches are expected, though no specific dates have been set, police said.

Nearly three dozen law enforcement officers, including over a half dozen canine units, from Suffolk, Nassau and State Police departments formed seven teams to comb the thick underbrush of beach between Robert Moses Parkway and Jones Beach, as well as specific sites on Bay Parkway and Wantagh Parkway.

The search focused on 90 points of interests identified by FBI aerial photography shots taken of the beach area this past spring. Each area had already been searched at least once, according to Suffolk Inspector Stuart Cameron. At this point the police have searched all of the 110 points of interests identified by the photo effort, he noted.

“No significant items were found today,” said Cameron at a 3 p.m. press conference held in the parking lot of the former Oak Beach Inn on Ocean Parkway. “There were no additional items of evidence found."

The search was “targeted” using GPS coordinates provided by photography work done during a pre-summer search effort of the beach area. The search was conducted now, as opposed to the last five months, as foliage is off the bushes which makes searching easier.

Initially published reports stated the search was part of the ongoing effort to locate Gilbert, a 24-year-old prostitute who was last seen fleeing Oak Beach in May 2010.

During the press conference Cameron said the search was related to the Gilbert case as well as the serial killer investigation, which police stated last week are likely two separate investigations.

Suffolk Police Commissioner Richard Dormer  Patch last week that the theory now is that one Long Island male killed eight women, a male and toddler and that Gilbert's disappearance is likely not related. Police say it's possible Gilbert is dead and that her body could be somewhere in the beach brush along the parkway.