The man they were looking for was a towering, Frankenstein-like figure with an 'empty gaze' who drove a first-generation Chevrolet Avalanche, Schaller recalled telling investigators.
In the winter of 2010, shortly after police discovered the remains of his roommate and three other women buried on a remote stretch of Long Island shoreline, Dave Schaller providedIn the winter of 2010, shortly after police discovered the remains of his roommate and three other women buried on a remote stretch of Long Island shoreline, Dave Schaller provided detectives with a description of the person he believed to be the killer.
The arrest marked a stunning breakthrough in the hunt for a serial killer who had eluded investigators and whose crimes gripped Long Islanders since the bodies of four women - all of them sex workers - were found wrapped in burlap near Gilgo Beach. Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney, who inherited the investigation when he took office in 2022, said the key to unraveling the case was the description of the truck, discovered by a state investigator after the launch of a new task force formed to take a fresh look at the evidence.
"What solved this case was a lot of dedicated investigators, analysts, and attorneys from a bunch of agencies getting together and collaborating," he said.Speaking out for the first time since the arrest, he said he had met with homicide detectives on multiple occasions during the initial years of the investigation.
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