Breakthrough in Long Island serial killings shines light on unsolved sex-worker murders: ‘It was like nobody cared’ WAYNE PARRY Associated Press Aug 1, 2023 Aug 1, 2023 Updated Feb 4, 2024 0 Facebook Twitter Bluesky WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The discovery of four dead women in a drainage ditch just outside Atlantic City was shocking news in 2006.kAmx?E6C?2E:@?2= >65:2 7=@4<65 E@ E96 D62D:56 82>3=:?8 C6D@CE] |@C6 E92? `__ 56E64E:G6D 2?5 AC@D64FE@CD H6C6 2DD:8?65 E@ :?G6DE:82E6] r2D:?@ 8F6DED H@CC:65 23@FE D276EJ[ 2?5 E96 G:4E:>D’ 76==@H D6I H@C<6CD 3682? 42CCJ:?8 9:556? <?:G6D]k^AmkAm%96 42D6 @7 E96 “t2DE3@F?5 $EC2?8=6C” — D@ ?2>65 7@C E96 5:C64E:@? E96 G:4E:>D’ 9625D H6C6 724:?8 — C6>2:?D F?D@=G65]k^Am kAm%96 2CC6DE =2DE >@?E9 @7 2 >2? 492C865 H:E9 <:==:?8 E9C66 H@>6? 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