New York: Suspected human remains were found in two locations along a remote New York beach highway on Monday, bringing the number of potential victims of a possible serial killer to 10.
The discovery came as police expanded a search from Long Island's Suffolk County westward into the Jones Beach area of Nassau County, just over the border from New York City.
The expanded search was prompted by Suffolk's discovery in the past two weeks of four sets of unidentified human remains; the bodies of four women who worked as Craigslist escorts were found in the same area in December, leading authorities to suspect that they may be dealing with a serial killer.
The highway runs along a barrier beach island south of Long Island and is home to several county and state-run parks featuring miles of white sandy beaches about 45 minutes from Manhattan.
Detective Lt. Kevin Smith, a Nassau County police spokesman, said the two sets of remains found Monday - separated by several miles along the north side of Ocean Parkway, were sent to the medical examiner's office to confirm whether they are human. Police also made several discoveries of bones Monday that were quickly determined to be animals.
"It appears to be a skull, whether it is human or not is unknown at this point," Smith told reporters of the second discovery of suspected remains on Monday.
He did not offer any description of the possible remains found earlier in the day.
Detectives said it appears some victims had been dead for a long time. The first of the four victims found late last year went missing in 2007; a second in 2009 and the remaining two in June and September 2010.
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