NEW YORK, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Police in New York no longer think 10 bodies found on a Long Island beach were the work of multiple killers, an official said.
Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer told NBC New York investigators now believe the homicides were committed by a single person and most of them occurred last year.
Dormer said investigators have also "debunked" an earlier theory that the killer worked in law enforcement.
"It's not unusual for people to be very familiar with how police conduct investigations, and how criminals try to evade capture," he said during a phone interview Tuesday.
The remains of eight women, a male, and a female toddler were found dumped across a stretch of Ocean Parkway between Dec. 11 and April 11.
Dormer also said he doesn't think the case of missing sex worker Shannan Gilbert is connected to the killings.
"We believe that it's just coincidence that she went missing in Oak Beach and the bodies were found on Gilgo Beach, which is right across Ocean Parkway and farther west," Dormer said. "The M.O. is completely different, the scenario is completely different."
