The arrest in the Gilgo Beach murders has breathed fresh life into another long-dormant case with obvious parallels.
Trees grow up through the cracked cement, Wednesday, July 27, 2023, in Egg Harbor Township, N.J., where a string of seedy motels used to stand. In November 2006, the bodies of four Atlantic City-area sex workers were found in a drainage ditch behind the motels, four of many such cases that remain unsolved around the U.S. The discovery of four dead women in a drainage ditch just outside Atlantic City was shocking news in 2006.
The FBI would not say how many killings of sex workers in the U.S. remain unsolved. Media accounts and statements from local authorities show a long trail of open cases, from nine women whose bodies were found along highways in Massachusetts, to 11 found dead in New Mexico, and eight more found amid the crawfish farms and swamps of southern. The killings of other sex workers in Chicago, New Haven, Connecticut and Ohio, among other places, also remain mysteries.
Two women were out for an afternoon walk near Atlantic City in November 2006 when they found a body in a ditch. They called police, who quickly found three others nearby. For families left behind, each new day without word in the case of their loved one brings fresh pain. Gilbert Gallegos, a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department, said the New Mexico cases remain actively investigated, with “multiple detectives” working them. The 11 victims were all involved in drugs and prostitution, police said.
“Everything is being examined and looked at, and this is an active investigation,” said Anthony Carter, Suffolk County's deputy police commissioner. He would not say if his agency was investigating any connection between Heuermann and the Atlantic City murders.
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