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LISK: Long Island Serial Killer

UPDATE: Valerie Mack (aka Jane Doe #6) Identified

LISK: Long Island Serial Killer

Mopac Audio & Glassbox Media

True Crime, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.73.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Valerie Mack was named as the true identity of the LISK victim previously known as Jane Doe #6. Suffolk County police, in conjunction with the FBI, announced that through the use of DNA and genetic genealogy, they had determined Mack's identity. Join Senior Producer, Shannon McGarvey, as she lays out what is known about Valerie Mack's life and her place amongst the larger group of LISK victims. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Andrew Beck Grace, co-host of the NPR podcast White Lies.

0:04.0

They're not being held because they're charged with a crime.

0:06.5

These people are being indefinitely detained.

0:09.0

You can't just keep these people in jail until they die.

0:11.5

On the new season of White Lies, a story about immigration and definite detention in the search for a secret list.

0:17.5

Listen to the White Lies podcast from NPR.

0:22.0

Mopek Padiya

0:24.0

The White Lies podcast

0:29.0

Thank you for joining us on this special mini-episode of Lisk Long Island serial killer.

0:33.0

This past week, Suffolk County police announced the identity of Lisk victim Valerie Mack

0:37.0

who'd been known up until now as Jane Doe No. 6.

0:41.0

Here's police commissioner Geraldine Hart at the press conference.

0:45.0

Thanks to the work of our detectives and our partners with the FBI.

0:50.0

Today, we are announcing that Jane Doe No. 6 has been positively identified as Valerie Mack.

0:58.0

Valerie Mack, who was 24 years old in 2000 when she went missing, was described as five feet tall

1:05.0

and approximately 100 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes.

1:10.0

She was working as an escort in Philadelphia at the time of her disappearance

1:14.0

and also used the name Melissa Taylor.

1:18.0

Family members last saw her in the spring or summer of 2000 in the area of Port Republic, New Jersey.

1:25.0

She was never reported missing.

1:28.0

It is our hope that our efforts bring some sense of closure and peace to Valerie's family.

1:34.0

With advances in DNA technology and through our partnership with the FBI's Long Island office,

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