A suspect has been taken into custody on New York's Long Island in connection with a long-unsolved string of killings, known as the Gilgo Beach murders, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Friday.
“We're happy to see that they're finally active, the police, in accomplishing something. Let's wait and see what it all leads to,” said John Ray, the attorney for the families of two victims, Shannan Gilbert and Jessica Taylor.
By spring 2011, that number had climbed to 10 sets of human remains -- those of eight women, one man and one toddler. Some were later linked to dismembered body parts found elsewhere on , making for a puzzling crime scene that stretched from a park near the New York City limits to a resort community on Fire Gilbert's body was found in December 2011, about 3 miles east of where the other 10 sets were discovered.
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