New York - Police investigators found two new sets of human bones and a skull as they were investigating the deaths of up to nine people whose remains were found along a beach on New York's Long Island, news reports said Tuesday.
The investigators suspected a serial killer or killers who were targetting prostitutes because at least four of the dead were known as 'escorts.'
News reports said the discoveries could lead to one of the biggest cases of homicide in New York after David Berkowitz, dubbed Son of Sam, killed six people in 1977 and Joel Rifkin, who confessed to 17 killings in 1993.
The investigators found the ninth and tenth remains and a skull on Monday as they were combing a stretch of Jones Beach waterfront on Long Island. The gruesome discoveries began in December.
'We have eight sets of (bones) in Suffolk County, we have two more now in Nassau,' Police spokesman Lieutenant Kevin Smith was quoted by the Wall Street Journal as saying. 'It's all startling. We have a lot of work to do.'
The previous eight remains were found under thick underbrush along the Oak Beach waterfront, which is situated on the Ocean leading to the popular Jones Beach where crowds of sunbathers converge during summer.
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