Scary: Cops say one of Long Island serial killer’s victims a baby or child

One of the bodies recently unearthed at the side of the road at Gilgo Beach on Long Island is that of a baby or child, police say.

The development is puzzling according to law enforcement officials, because it breaks with known serial killer patterns in selecting victims.

“One doesn’t match the others. It’s a young person, possibly as young as an infant, or a child,” said the source, who is familiar with the investigation.

“If that’s the case, then that wouldn’t fit the pattern,” the source added, suggesting that the victim may not be related to the other murders, believed to be the work of a serial killer.

It’s possible the find is a coincidence, but given the remote location and cluster of bodies, it is an awfully large one. Puzzling too is the fact that the women whose bodies have been identified are known sex workers thought to have been meeting johns over at the beach through the use of Craigslist.

Investigators believe the murders are linked to a similar serial killer operating in the mid 00s in Atlantic City, given similarities in the cases. In both sets of murders, prostitutes were targeted, strangled, and their bodies discarded alongside desolate stretches of oceanside road.