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New York seeks public help to ID remains

NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- New York authorities are asking the public to help in identifying five sets of human remains discovered along a Long Island beach this spring.

Five other skeletal remains found between December and March around Gilgo Beach have already been identified, four of them likely the victim of the same killer, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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Suffolk County authorities released composite sketches Tuesday of two of the unidentified victims, a young Asian man and a woman.

The victims were found in March and April about 40 miles east of Manhattan in an area that has been used as a dumping group for homicide victims.

The Asian man, missing several teeth and estimated to be in his late teens or early twenties, was dressed as a woman, the New York Daily News reported.

Along with the sketches, Suffolk County authorities provided pictures of jewelry worn by victims.

They also revealed that DNA has linked the body of a young child to a female whose remains were found about 7 miles away in Nassau County.

"Although we cannot definitively say, it is likely that these two individuals are mother and child," said Police Commissioner Richard Dormer.

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