Karen Vergata: Fire Island Jane Doe No More

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Remains are found in two locations along the New York Coast.

Legs are found in a plastic bag on Fire Island’s Blue Point Beach. A skull was found near the remains of Long Island Serial Killer victim Jane Doe No. 3, also known as “Peaches,” on a beach in Nassau County. We now know the body parts are from the same victim: Karen Vergata, 34, a mother of two.

It took nearly 30 years to identify the dismembered remains. The cause of death isn't known.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look at the case of Fire Island Jane Doe.

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0:00.0	Body bags with Joseph Scott Morgan.
0:18.5	How many of us at some point in time have heard the term needle in a haystack?
0:25.2	Now for those of you that have never been around a haystack, it's quite dense, it's overwhelming
0:34.6	when you begin to look at it from the perspective of trying to find something as tiny as a needle.
0:43.6	But let's take that idea and expand it out a little bit, let's think about an island,
0:51.9	an island that we've heard about all of our lives.
0:56.5	It's 118 miles long and at its greatest north-south width, I guess we could say 23 miles, and
1:08.9	that comes up to just over 1700 square miles, that's a big number, that's a very big number.
1:19.9	Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot, we also have to add another island, an island that in addition
1:30.5	to the one I just previously mentioned, this island is 32 miles in length, and they sit
1:40.0	on the edge of one of the largest bodies of the water in the world, the Atlantic Ocean.
1:52.1	We're going to discuss today the identification after all of these years of Karen Vergara,
2:08.1	otherwise known as Jane Doe number seven.
2:13.3	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Body Bags.
2:21.8	We've talked a lot about everything that's happened with Gilgo Beach, okay, let's discuss
2:29.7	Karen Vergara.
2:32.2	Fire Island Jane Doe was identified as 34-year-old Karen Vergara, who actually was last seen
2:41.7	on Valentine's Day in 1996.
2:45.8	Her legs found April 20th of 96 and her skull found in 2010, 14 years later, this story
2:58.5	Joe, I do not see that we're at the ending, we're talking about people that were murdered,
3:04.0	we're talking about women that were murdered, and one man, and trying to find the perp
3:09.8	who did this, and are we looking for more than one, I mean right now we've got one man
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