Crimes of Long island

Lindsay and Mark met up to give an update to the Long Island Serial Killer case and the arrest of Rex Heuermann.  Questions?  Email Mark or Lindsay lindsay@crimesoflongisland.com mark@crimesoflongisland.com

On August 10th, 2006, Daniel Cicciaro Jr, 17, a recent graduate of Newfield High School in Selden, went to a birthday party in Sound Beach, Long Island, with several of his friends - the night ended with a fatality - we hope you enjoy this episode. Questions?  Email Mark or Lindsay lindsay@crimesoflongisland.com mark@crimesoflongisland.com

Lindsay and Mark just chat about what's next for Crimes of Long Island.  Spoiler:  We have big plans! Questions?  Email Mark or Lindsay lindsay@crimesoflongisland.com mark@crimesoflongisland.com

For five twentysomethings in Brooklyn, Memorial Day of 1982 started with stealing a white Cadillac and the desire to go to the mythological city of Babylon and get paid. What came next was a nightmare for a teenage party in Plainview and a horrific, humiliating visit to the Sea Crest Diner that no one would ever forget. Questions?  Email Mark or Lindsay lindsay@crimesoflongisland.com mark@crimesoflongisland.com

Lawrence Lever, a well-known corporate real-estate developer of possibly questionable ethics is killed when he attempts to stop two young men from breaking into his home, Sunny Hill Farm, a 30-acre estate that was also home to the 11 thoroughbred horses Lever and his wife were so fond of. Lawrence Lever was not the first robbery victim Alan Goldman, the man that would eventually become known as The Dinnertime Bandit. Goldman, a Lynbrook resident whose childhood crime involved stealing other children's bicycles as well as small knick-knacks from the Woolworth's in Island park, eventually gained the attention of the Genovese family. The Dinnertime Bandit eventually captured the attention of Unsolved Mysteries and in a bizarre coincidence, Lawrence Lever's life story overlaps with Lindsay's own family. Questions?  Email Mark or Lindsay lindsay@crimesoflongisland.com mark@crimesoflongisland.com

In December of 1961, George Carroll left his house and never returned – or so the story goes. Michael was barely 8 months old at the time, and the youngest of the four children of George and Dorothy Carroll. On October 30th, 2018, after years of family speculation and rumors, George consulted with a psychic, who quite definitively pointed to the basement floor. The house was in need of some renovation as it was, and so Michael and his sons began to dig.  They found answers. But, they also found questions. Questions?  Email Mark or Lindsay lindsay@crimesoflongisland.com mark@crimesoflongisland.com

Forgiveness: The Jermaine Ewell Story This story hits closest to home for us, our town, our friends and our family. The decision was made for me to handle it solo (and to pretend that she wasn't kinda terrified to do so). It was June 2nd 1991 and with school ending and former Lawrence High School students returning from their first year of college, it only seemed right that a party was in order. The Lawrence football team had a fantastic year thanks in large part to Jermaine Ewell, a starting defensive linebacker and offensive fullback at Lawrence. He was also a track team sprinter who was nicknamed “Streak” because of his speed. Everyone we spoke to absolutely adored Jermaine. He was a good guy, a genuinely nice person who looked after his sister and his neighborhood and just did his best.   He, like many of his friends, went to a house party in Atlantic Beach, where the alcohol flowed and emotions ran high. At one point, a former classmate who Jermaine had been friendly with, Shannon Siegel, became angry that Jermaine was talking to a girl who Shannon had once dated. There was a racial slur used -- the worst racial slur -- and the other kids at the party shut that shit down. Everyone will tell you that what happened at the party, and the atrocity that followed after, was not about racism. At least, not until Al Sharpton showed up and tried to make it about racism.   This is a story about a brutal attack that changed Jermaine's promising future as an athlete and ruined Shannon's life as well. But, in the end, when I was thinking about how to title this, how to describe it, how to tell the story with all of the complexity it deserves -- I was left with Jermaine's overwhelming ability to forgive Shannon. And I would like to think that in the end, both Jermaine and Shannon were able to find some sort of peace.   I hope those of you who contributed to this story feel that your words were heard and respected, and as always, we welcome feedback, positive or negative. Feel free to email us at lindsay@crimesoflongisland.com or mark@crimesoflongisland.com and let us know how we did, what we missed, and anything else you need to get off your chest after listening to this episode.                     --Lindsay

In today's conclusion of our four-part coverage of the Long Island Serial Killer mystery -- which has driven Mark to emphatically state that there will never be a multi-part episode again...maybe... -- Lindsay and Mark explore the very very many questions that still remain more than a decade after the Gilgo Four and many other bodies began to emerge from their extremely shallow graves. Who is LISK? Was Shannon a victim of LISK? What exactly happened to make a fairly simple case so absurdly complicated that there is very little likelihood of the families of the victim having some sort of resolution in the future. We hope you enjoy this episode, and don't hesitate to reach out if you have your own theories to share, or if you would like us to cover a crime that marked your childhood in a way you can't forget.

 If we are being honest, we are still just kinda spitballing here...there are so many people and so many theories and so many people who have climbed these mountains before us -- yes, Lindsay has a theater child and and therefore all too often ends up merging Broadway choruses about Climbing Every Mountains with crappy maxims about forging the roads less traveled. Except in the case of LISK, it seems like so, so, soooo many roads have been traveled. Just ask anyone and everyone on Websleuths and Reddit -- ask and then listen.

Part Two of the Reluctantly Likeable Listless LISK Case: The Evidence, The Oak Beach Association of Oh-My-Goodness-What-Goes-On-Behind-The-Gated-Community?!, and how many 911 calls were actually made that night? Also, there was a belt, but...pretty much everyone owned that belt during the 80s.

In Part One of our four-part series on LISK: Reviewed with great reluctance and the fantastic advantage of hindsight, Mark and Lindsay discuss Shannan Gilbert and why Shannan and her mother, Mari, are tremendously more important than the answer to the constantly-debated question of whether or not Shannan was a victim of LISK.

Lindsay and Mark dropped everything to listen and discuss this shocking 911 call that was released today, May 13, 2022. The entire call is here. The Long Island serial killer (also referred to as LISK, the Gilgo Beach Killer, and the Craigslist Ripper) is an unidentified suspected serial killer who is believed to have murdered between 10 and 16 people over a period of nearly 20 years, and to have disposed of their bodies in areas on the South Shore of Long Island, New York. Most of the known victims were sex workers who advertised on Craigslist. The victims' remains were found over a period of months in 2010 and 2011, after the disappearance of Shannan Gilbert resulted in a police search of the area along the Ocean Parkway, near the remote beach towns of Gilgo and Oak Beach in Suffolk County. The remains of four victims, "The Gilgo Four," were found within a quarter of a mile of each other near Gilgo Beach in December 2010. Six more sets of remains were found in March and April 2011 in Suffolk County and Nassau County.Police believe the latter sets of remains predate the four bodies found in December 2010 Gilbert's remains were found a year after the remains of the "Gilgo Four" were discovered. Her cause of death remains contested, with police claiming accidental drowning while an independent autopsy determined possible strangulation.

Mark and Lindsay are back at it and fortunate enough to start on a high note! It just so happens we get to bring closure to the case of Eve Wilkowitz's 1980 murder. At twenty-one years old Eve was beautiful, brave, and bold. She had moved out of her childhood home shortly after her mother died from breast cancer and found work as a secretary at a large publishing company. Eve was saving to get enough money to go to school to study social work and had recently started to date a fellow colleague from work, Jack. Her new beau was the last person to see her when he watched her board a late night train from New York City to Bay Shore. It would take three days for her body to be discovered and 42 years for her family to get the answers they had been waiting for. Join us as we review the case and speak to her then-boyfriend Jack, the last person who saw her alive.

On October 28th, 2014, the people of Farmingdale, New York, were shocked to find out that the decapitated woman in the road was not, in fact, a Halloween prank. Have a listen as we discuss this horrific murder-suicide in which Derek Ward decapitates his mother, Patricia Ward, and then throws himself in front of a train. *Crimes of Long Island will return in the winter of 2022 - have a happy and healthy holiday!

On March 3, 1989, Kelly Ann Tinyes is babysitting her younger brother, Richie, when she gets a telephone call from a man who identifies himself as “John.” Kelly leaves her house, stating that she is going to a friends house. When she doesn't return home after a few hours, her family starts to worry. The truth behind her death will tear this small community apart. Join Mark and Lindsay as we discuss this difficult case.

On March 3, 1989, Kelly Ann Tinyes is babysitting her younger brother, Richie, when she gets a telephone call from a man who identifies himself as “John.” Kelly leaves her house, stating that she is going to a friends house. When she doesn't return home after a few hours, her family starts to worry. The truth behind her death will tear this small community apart. Join Mark and Lindsay as we discuss this difficult case.

In Centerport Long Island in 1964, 47-year-old housewife Helen Pfiel decided it would be funny to put rat poison in the trick-or-treat bags she handed out to teenagers she thought were too old to be dressing in half-hearted classes in order to get free candy. Spoiler alert: the Suffolk County DA was not amused.