The Long Island Serial Killer - Master Timeline
10.11.22 - NBC New York - Long Island Serial Killer Investigation Expands Into Alabama
05.18.22 - NBC News - ‘She Was in Fear for Her Life:' Shannan Gilbert's Sister Blasts Suffolk Cops Over Gilgo Probe
05.17.22 - CBS News - Shannan Gilbert's family speaks out on Gilgo Beach murders controversy
05.14.22 - Newsday (Pg. A2) - Gilbert 911 Plea:
05.13.22 - NBC News - ‘Somebody's After Me:' Shannan Gilbert's Long-Secret 911 Calls Are Out. Listen Here
05.13.22 - CBS News - Authorities release long-secret 911 calls linked to Gilgo Beach serial killer case: "There's somebody after me"
05. 06.22 - Rolling Stone - Police Haven’t Given Up on Long Island Serial Killer Search
05.06.22 - New York Daily News (Pg. A4) - Cops air details in cold-case Gilgo Beach murder spree
05.06.22 - NBC News - LI Serial Killer Case: Newly Released Details Offer Fresh Insight Into the ‘Gilgo Four'
04.13.22 - NBC New York - Gilgo Beach Killings: Cops Release Last Known Video of Craigslist Victim, No 911 Calls
04.12.22 - CBS News - Police release new video of Gilgo Beach murder victim, double reward for information
03.11.22 - Newsday (Pg. A5) - New Gilgo video, Gilbert 911 call
02.15.22 - Long Island Press - Cops Launch Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation Task Force
01.17.22 - The Guardian - Long Island serial killer case: after 11 years, could answers be coming?
12.31.21 - CBS News - Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison On Gilgo Beach Murders: 'We Will Not Rest Until We Bring Those Accountable To Justice'
06.28.21 - CBS News - Long Island Lawmaker Calls For Investigation Into Investigators Assigned To Unsolved Gilgo Beach Murders
04.15.21 - Newday (Pg. A3) - SUFFOLK'S TOP COP LEAVING
03.05.21 - Rolling Stone - Did Police Corruption Derail the Long Island Serial Killer Investigation?
09.25.20 - The New York Times - The Gilgo Beach Murders Were a Cold Case. Then a New Police Cheif Arrived
05.28.20 - CBS News - Police Release Identity Of Victim In Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation
05.28.20 - Rolling Stone - Authorities Identify Possible Victim of Long Island Serial Killer 20 Years After Disappearance
05.28.20 - "Jane Doe No. 6" is identified as Valerie Mack, also known by the name Melissa Taylor.
05.18.22 - NBC New York - ‘She Was in Fear for Her Life:' Shannan Gilbert's Sister Blasts Suffolk Cops Over Gilgo Probe
05.29.20 - New York Daily News (Pg. 14) - Gilgo Victim ID'd
01.20.20 - Rolling Stone - ‘Lost Girls’ Explores Long Island Serial Killer Case in New Trailer
01.17.20 - Rolling Stone - Police Reveal ‘Significant Piece of Evidence’ in Long Island Serial Killer Case
01.16.20 - CBS News - Investigators Release New Evidence, Announce New Website In Hunt For Gilgo Beach Serial Killer
01.16.20 - Suffolk County Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart released an image of a belt which was found during the initial investigation near Ocean Parkway in Gilgo Beach. The belt had either the letters "HM" or "WH" (depending on the orientation of the belt) embossed in black leather. They also announce the launch of gilgonews.com, a website designed to share information and collect tips regarding the investigation.
01.06.20 - New York Times - Gilgo Beach Serial Killings: Police Reveal Clue Handled by Suspect
06.2019 - A proposal was made to use genetic genealogy to help identify remains which were still unidentified and possible identify the Long Island Serial Killer.
05.13.18 - New York Daily News (Pg. 28) - It's a theory
09.12.17 - John Bittrolff, a Manorville carpenter, is named by Suffolk County District Attorney prosecutor Robert Biancavilla as a suspect in at least one of the Long Island Serial Killer murders.
12.16.16 - The Daily Journal Vineland, New Jersey (Pg. A6) - DNA link reignites serial slaying case
12.16.16 - The Democrat and Chronicle (Pg. A14) - DNA link reignites serial slaying case
12.16.16 - Asbury Park Press (Pg. A11) - A DNA discovery provides more clues, reignites long-dormant serial killer case
12.16 - Remains of "Peaches" and Jane Doe #3 are positively identified as the same person
12.15.16 - CBS News - Escort Claims Ex-Suffolk Police Chief Is Tied To Gilgo Beach Case
12.15.16 - Rolling Stone - Why Hasn’t the Long Island Serial Killer Case Been Solved?
12.15.16 - The Citizen (Auburn, NY) Pg. A3 - DNA link reignites serial slaying case
12.15.16 - Rolling Stone - Why Hasn’t the Long Island Serial Killer Case Been Solved?
12.11.15 - CBS News - FBI Joins Gilgo Beach Investigation 5 Years After First Human Remains Found
12.10.15 - Suffolk County Police Commissioner Tim Sini announces that the FBI has officially joined the investigation.
06.25.13 - CBS News - Woman's Body Washes Ashore At Gilgo Beach
01.23.13 - human remains were discovered in a small patch of brush along the shore at the end of Sheep Lane in Lattingtown by a woman out walking her dog.
03.25.12 - New York Metro News - Jogger finds body in Long Island woods
12.14.11 - New York Metro News - Cops: Remains likely missing LI woman's
12.13.11 - The remains of Shannan Gilbert are discovered in a marsh at Oak Beach.
12.07.11 - New York Metro News - Items found on LI may be Gilbert's
11.29.11 - Police announce they now believe one person is responsible for all ten murders, and that this person is most likely from Long Island.
09.20.11 - Police release composite sketches of "Asian male" and "Jane Doe No. 6"
09.20.11 - New York Metro News - Gilgo Beach Killer update
06.08.11 - Newsday - Gilgo searches end - for now
06.07.11 - Newsday (Pg. A4) - Search to resume in Gilgo case
06.11 - Suffolk County Police announce a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the case.
05.09.11 - Police speculate that Valerie Mack and Jessica Taylor may have both been murdered by a second, separate killer.
05.04.11 - Newsday (Pg. A14) - No new clues in search
04.23.11 - The Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre) (Pg. 4) - Reward offered for beach killer
04.23.11 - The Beaufort Gazette (Pg. 11) - Record reward offered for serial killer info
04.23.11 - Newsday (Pg. A5) - Gilgo reward to grow
04.22.11 - The Atlantic - Dissecting the Profile of the Long Island Serial Killer
04.21.11 - New York Times - Bright, Careful and Sadistic: Profiling Long Island's Mystery Serial Killer
04.16.11 - The News-Star (Pg. 2) - Searchers stall in hunt
04.15.11 - West Hawaii Today (Pg. A3) - FBI to conduct aerial operation in expnasion of serial killer case
04.15.11 - Newsday (Page A3) - Cops: Nothing new at beach
04.14.11 - Newsday (Pg. A2) - Feds to help in hunt
04.14.11 - The Desert Sun (Pg. 8) - FBI goes high-tech in serial killer case
04.14.11 - Lewiston Maine Journal - FBI looks for remains by air
04.12.11 - Newsday (Pg. A2) - Skull, human bones found by searchers near Jones Beach
04.11.11 - Remains of "Peaches/Jane Doe 3" are discovered near Jones Beach State Park.
04.11.11 - Tobay Beach - the remains of "Fire Island Jane Doe/Jane Doe 7" are discovered.
04.09.11 - New York Times - Why So Many Serial Killers on Long Island?
04.04.11 - "John Doe/Asian Male" found
04.04.11 - The further partial remains of Valerie Mack are discovered.
04.04.11 - The remains of an unidentified female toddler is discovered.
03.29.11 - Additional remains of Jessica Taylor (skull remnants, a pair of hands and a forearm) are found at Gilgo Beach along Ocean Parkway.
02.03.11 - Newsday (Pg. A32) - Dangerous profession, easy target
12.15.10 - New York Times - Hunt Is On for Serial Killer in Long Island Deaths
12.13.10 - The remains of Megan Waterman, Amber Lynn Costello and Maureen Brainard-Barnes are found.
09.02.10 - Amber Lynn Costello (one of "The Gilgo Four") goes missing
06.06.10 - Megan Waterman (one of "The Gilgo Four") goes missing after placing an ad on Craigslist as an escort.
Summer of 2006 - Mallia searches the gated beach community where Gilbert was last seen. He and Blue are unsuccessful at finding anything.
06.10 - John Mallia is asked by the Suffolk County Police Department's missing person bureau to begin searching for Gilbert, using Blue, Mallia's German Shepherd cadaver dog.
05.02.10 - Shannan Gilbert places a call to 911 at 4:51am. She claims that someone is trying to kill her, stating "They are trying to kill me."
05.01.10 - Shannan Gilbert is hired through Craigslist to visit the Oak Beach residence of Joseph Brewer. Later that evening, Gilbert flees the residence.
07.09 - 08.09 - Amanda Berthelemy, Melissa Barthelemy's sister, receives a number of "vulgar, mocking and insulting" phone calls originating from Melissa's phone, from an unknown individual. At some point during this series of phone calls, the caller informs Amanda that her sister is dead.
07.09.07 - Last time Maureen Brainard-Barnes (one of "The Gilgo Four") was seen alive, saying she planned "to spend the day in New York City."
07.2007 - (Exact date and time unknown) - Sara Karnes receives a phone call from an unknown male, calling from a phone number unfamiliar to her, claiming he had just seen Brainard-Barnes, who was staying at "a whorehouse in Queens".
03.22.07 - The other leg belonging to the torso of the victim known only as "Cherries" is found Oyster Bay in the village of Cove Neck.
03.21.07 - One leg belonging to the torso of the victim known only as "Cherries" is found at Cold Spring Harbor
03.03.07 - a suitcase, containing the torso of either a Hispanic or light-skinned African American woman was found along the shore of Harbor Island Park, in the town of Mamaroneck. While the torso was never identified, it was determined that the victim had been stabbed to death. She was given the nickname "Cherries", because of a tattoo of two cherries on her left breast.
07.26.03 - Partial remains of a female (naked, dismembered torso, missing its' head and hands), later identified as Jessica Taylor, are discovered in Manorville.
07.21.03 - Jessica Taylor, then 20 years old, goes missing
07.18 - 07.22.03 - Jessica Taylor is seen working around the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan.
11.19.2000 - Partial remains (later determined to be Valerie Mack) are discovered in Manorville.
2000 - Sometime in the spring or summer - Valerie Mack is last seen by members of her family. At the time of her disappearance, Mack had been working in Philadelphiaas an escort.
06.28.97 - Partial remains are discovered at Hempstead Lake State Park
04.20.96 - Fire Island - Davis Park - Severed legs are discovered in a garbage bag.
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