Hey everyone and welcome back to Big Mad True Crime where we get Big Mad over True Crime.

I'm your host Heather Ashley and today we'll be going over the recently released documents of

the Gilgo Beach murders otherwise known as Lisk or the Long Island serial killer.

This episode will be based solely on the bail application documents uploaded by CBS New York.

The documents detail how a newly established task force was able to connect the dots and tie

one New York man to the death of three women. Small talk sucks, so let's dive in.

On December 11, 2010, police officer John Malia was doing some training with his

canine blue along Ocean Parkway in Gilgo Beach, New York, which is on Long Island.

It was during that training that blue stumbled upon a set of human remains, a wider search ensued,

and by two days later on December 13, three more sets of human remains were found all within

a quarter mile of one another. The first set was identified as belonging to a tiny blonde 24-year-old

woman named Melissa Bethellamy, who was only four foot ten. Sets two through four were identified

as belonging to Megan Waterman, Amber Castello, and Maureen Bernard Barnes. As of yet, no one has been

charged with Maureen's murder. Megan Waterman was 22 years old, five-foot-five with blonde hair.

Amber was a 27-year-old who was four-eleven with brown hair, and Maureen was 25 years old, four-eleven,

and also had brown hair. All but one of those victims was under five-feet tall,

and all of them had died via homicidal violence. Each of their bodies had been left 22 to 33 feet from

the edge of the road, bound similarly with either belts or tape, and three of the four women were

wrapped in a burlap-type material. They were all missing clothing and were known sex workers.

Prior to each of their deaths, they had each contacted someone who was using a burner phone,

and the cell phones of two of the victims, Melissa and Maureen, were used by their killer after they

were killed. The investigation into who might have killed these women was a big one and went on

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