Disgraced former police chief ‘shrouded in accusations that he’s tied to Gilgo Beach killings’

A disgraced former police chief ‘is shrouded in accusations of being tied to the Gilgo Beach murders’, a sensational new podcast claims.  

Unraveled: Long Island Serial Killer, launched on Wednesday, delves into the seek for the person who murdered virtually a dozen girls earlier than disposing of their our bodies alongside the desolate seaside. 

Between 2010 and 2011, 11 units of human stays had been uncovered by the seaside, positioned in Suffolk County, Long Island, an hour east of New York City. 

Most of the victims had been younger prostitutes, and nobody has but been arrested for his or her deaths. 

Unraveled, hosted by Billy Jensen and Alexis Linkletter, places the highlight on ex-Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke, who headed the division from 2011 till his resignation in 2015.   

Burke was jailed for 46 months again in 2016 after pleading responsible to a civil rights violation arising out of an assault on an area man by the identify of Christopher Loeb in 2012, whereas he was serving within the prime job. 

Unraveled, hosted by Billy Jensen and Alexis Linkletter, places the highlight on ex-Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke, who headed the division from 2011 till his resignation in 2015. The disgraced former cop is pictured in 2016

Between 2010 and 2011, 11 units of human stays had been uncovered close to Gilgo Beach, positioned in Suffolk County on Long Island, an hour east of New York City. This map reveals the places the place a few of the victims had been discovered, and the gap between the crime scenes 

Loeb had stolen a navy duffel bag from the again of Burke’s SUV in December of that yr, earlier than he was subsequently tracked down police. Loeb says Burke took him again to the station and assaulted him. 

Loeb is interviewed within the first episode of Unraveled, the place he sensationally claims that Burke might have overwhelmed him as a result of he discovered an incriminating merchandise contained in the duffel bag. 

During the podcast, Loeb tells producers that the duffel bag contained a pink butt plug, handcuffs, a whistle and several other pornography DVDs.  

Loeb alleges that he put one of many DVDs right into a participant and was shocked by what he noticed.   

‘I put it on for about two minutes, I noticed a man with a masks on torturing a lady, a prostitute. She was tied behind her again, make up was operating down her again, she was scared to demise,’ Leob claims. 

He says it was a ‘snuff movie’ – in any other case often known as a pornographic film of an precise homicide. 

The producers of Unraveled admit they don’t have any means of verifying Loeb’s accusations, however state: ‘Its so on the market, however a lot of this story is on the market.’  

Christopher Loeb (pictured) was overwhelmed by Police Chief Burke again in 2012 after he stole his duffel bag. Loeb advised the Unraveled podcast that the duffel bag contained a snuff movie 

Unraveled: Long Island Serial Killer, launched on Wednesday, delves into the seek for the person who murdered virtually a dozen girls earlier than disposing of their our bodies alongside the desolate seaside

Prior to changing into Suffolk County Police Chief, Burke had been busted for ‘having intercourse in his patrol automobile whereas in uniform with a prostitute who used crack cocaine’, based on The New York Times. 

Vice claims Burke has been described by those that know him as a ‘sex-obsessed narcissist and a ‘middle-aged bachelor with a vulgar disregard for social niceties’.

He turned Suffolk County Police Chief shortly after the stays of the victims had been found on Gilgo Beach. 

According to Unraveled,’simply weeks after getting into workplace, Burke shut the FBI out of the investigation into the Gilgo Beach serial killer.’

More episodes of the podcast can be launched subsequent month, and can additional probe the ex- cop.

Burke was launched from jail in 2019 after finishing his sentence for his assault on Loeb.   

An aerial view of the realm close to Gilgo Beach the place police discovered the stays in 2010 and 2011

However, Loeb shouldn’t be the one particular person to theorize that Burke may very well be linked to the Gilgo Beach case. 

In 2016, an legal professional for the household of Shannan Gilbert – who’s believed to have been a sufferer of the Gilgo Beach serial killer – mentioned Burke needs to be investigated. 

The legal professional introduced forth a Long Island escort who mentioned she had an aggressive sexual encounter with Burke again in 2011. 

The incident allegedly occurred at a house in the identical space the place Gilbert disappeared, not removed from Gilgo Beach. 

‘I say it brings a direct connection between Burke and people poor lifeless victims mendacity alongside Ocean Parkway,’ Ray said. 

At the time, Burke’s legal professional scoffed on the allegation.    

Shannan Gilbert was working as an escort when she disappeared within the early morning hours of May 1, 2010. Investigation into her case led to the invention of various buried on Gilgo Beach

The Gilgo Beach killings have made nationwide headlines and had been not too long ago the topic of a Netflix movie, titled Lost Girls. 

The 2010 disappearance of Gilbert, a 24-year-old intercourse employee who vanished after leaving a consumer’s home on foot close to Gilgo Beach, triggered a hunt that uncovered the bigger thriller.

A police officer and his cadaver canine had been on the lookout for Gilbert’s physique within the thicket close to the seaside after they occurred upon the stays of a unique girl. Within days, three different our bodies had been discovered, all inside a brief stroll of each other.

By spring 2011, that quantity had climbed to 10 units of human stays – eight girls, a person and a toddler. 

The first 4 our bodies discovered had been these of ladies of their 20s who labored as prostitutes, based on police.

Maureen Brainard Barnes, 25, went lacking on July 9, 2007. Her stays had been discovered on December 13, 2010.

Megan Waterman, 22, who had a daughter, went lacking on June 6, 2010. Her physique was additionally discovered on December 13, 2010.

The stays of Melissa Barthelemy, 24, who had been residing within the Bronx on the time, and Amber Lynn Costello, 27, had been additionally discovered on December 13, 2010.

Barthelemy’s physique was the primary to be discovered. She went lacking on July 12, 2009. Costello disappeared on September 2, 2010. 

In March 2011,police found the cranium of a 20-year-old prostitute recognized as Jessica Taylor.  

Five extra stays had been found at Gilgo Beach over the subsequent two weeks.   

‘Gilgo Four’: These pictures present the primary 4 victims who had been discovered a decade in the past close to Gilgo Beach, Long Island, as a part of an investigation right into a serial killer

Meanwhile, Shannan Gilbert’s physique was later discovered within the marsh locally of Oak Beach in December 2011, about three miles east of the place the opposite 10 units had been found.

Police have lengthy maintained that Gilbert’s demise was unintended and excluded her from the ten different our bodies discovered throughout the case.

They mentioned on the time that she drowned in a drug-induced haze after wandering into the wetland, however her family members have lengthy disputed that willpower.

An impartial post-mortem outcomes commissioned by Gilbert’s mom indicated she too might have been strangled like the opposite victims. 

Shannan Gilbert (seen above), a 24-year-old intercourse employee, went lacking in 2010. Her disappearance ended up uncovering the opposite killings 

Police use cadaver canine to go looking the thick brush on the aspect of the highway close to Oak Beach, Long Island, on April 5, 2011