Thursday, April 7, 2011
SERIAL KILLER
Dawn Boyle
There is nothing as terrifying as what is going on right now on Long Island. Over the past few months there have been bodies or shall I say remains of women discarded along the roads of our beaches.
Just about a year ago a young woman who was contacted via Craigslist to come to a party in Oak Beach went missing. She was last seen running away from the home where the party was being held screaming "he is going to kill me". Late last year while searching the area 4 bodies were found wrapped in burlap approximatey 20' from the edge of Ocean Parkway. None of which was the girl that was missing. The police have cleared the man that contacted her and threw the party.
Weeks had passed and an off duty police officer who was driving down Ocean Parkway noticed something odd, last week another body was found and this week three more, bringing a grand total of 8.
They are extending the search next week, west along the ocean and bay sides of Ocean Parkway.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the women that have fallen victim to this horrific nightmare of a person, with hopes that the Nassau and Suffolk County Police find him soon and that he be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
It is strange to think of how many times we have ran threw the brush around the beaches...it is hitting very close to home in and around my neighborhood.
When the safe and trusting feeling of a place you always visit is taken away, you never look at it through the same eyes....
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Serial killers are a rare occurrence, although not as rare as they should be. I know of at least two that have preyed on Long Island during our lifetime; and that doesn't included David Berkowitz. Despite their sociopathic compulsion to kill, they share similar traits with most criminals: they tend to prey on the most vulnerable people in society and they know how to exploit our weaknesses. One of our biggest weaknesses is our unnatural need to override our fear. Fear is a gift, a gift that we try to bury. Man is the only species that overrides and ignores our instinct of fear. How many female victims of violent crime have said that they had a bad feeling when the elevator opened up and they saw the man inside, but chose to go in anyway because they didn't want to look scared or silly or racist? We need to listen to our subconscience. We tend to pick up non-verbal cues without realizing it. I suggest picking up a copy of a book called "the Gift of Fear" by Gavin de Becker. If you have kids going away to college, I suggest giving them a copy to read. It is an eye-opener.
ReplyDeleteI remember the fear we all felt wen David Berkowitz was loose in my Brooklyn neighborhood! I was still at the "parking" age and along the Belt Parkway where I lived was Berkowitz's prime "hit" area. For months we girls would all have our boyfriends take us right home and we would run from the car to the house the second we got there! If it wasn't so tragic I would suspect parents started the whole thing! NO ONE was parking at all during that time!
ReplyDeleteI remember when Joel Rifkin was arrested...I lived literally around the block from the barn he was using. I don't remember the horror leading up to when they arrested him. Not sure why.
ReplyDeleteSerial Killers are usually white men who have been abused.
I think I know a few who fit the profile...it's scary!
could be the guy nextdoor...you just never know
ReplyDeleteCrazy WOrld - you are so right on the money...I think that is why it is so frightening! People are nuts!
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