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Investigators Looking for Potential Serial Killer

By Marcella Glenn

Police search for a missing woman led to eight bodies in Long Island, New York, will expand Monday.

"We will be looking for human remains and any possible evidence," Nassau Police spokesman Kevin Smith.

Investigators are looking for a potential serial killer and the hunt is expected to reach-out along the Nassau County line. They'll move westward from Jones Beach as the search for Shannan Gilbert continues, who has been missing since May 2010.

Thursday investigators explained that they were almost finished with at least one part of the search effort in the Oak Beach area, where four female bodies were found stuffed in bushes along a quarter mile strip of beach-front property in December.

"Our search for Gilbert will continue, even though this component of the search is nearly over," Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer told reporters.

K-9 units and dive teams were added to the search operation in hopes of locating the missing woman, last seen alive in the neighboring Gilgo Beach area.

Police say the remains of three more bodies found last week were uncovered within a few miles of each other, giving rise to the theory that it could be the work of a serial killer.

Marcella Glenn is a freelance writer, blogger, novelist, and former business editor. She looks forward to hearing from you. Scribble a note to her through NewsBlaze, or her blog at critiqueandwrite.blogspot.com