A dead woman was found floating off the coast of Staten Island (NYC) yesterday morning.
The deceased He was 49 years old, but his name has not been revealed.he indicated Day-to-day News. According to police authorities, his body was spotted floating off the coast of South Seasidenear the Ocean Skedaddle Fishing Pier, around 9:55 a.m. Friday.
It was not immediately clear how the victim’s body ended up in the water or how long it had been there. But according to NYPD, witnesses saw a woman jump into the water from Capodanno Boulevard, between Sand Lane and Seaview Avenue, at approximately 9:41 a.m., reported SILive.com. The city’s Coroner’s Office (OCME) has yet to determine the cause of death.
It is normally common the discovery of bodies in whole or in parts in public places in New York and nearby areas, and it sometimes takes time to identify the victims. Last month a bottle collector found a body in an advanced state of decomposition in an alley on Upper Prolonged Island (NYC). Human remains were also discovered in a storage area under the Brooklyn-Queens Parkway (BQE); and a male body was found on the Patriots Path hiking trail in New Jersey.
In April Rex Heuermann, ‘the Gilgo Seaside killer’, surprised by pleading guilty to the deaths of 8 women whose bodies had been found along Ocean Parkway in Prolonged Island (NY) between 1993 and 2010. In parallel, Shannan Gilbert disappeared in May 2010, triggering the search that led to the discovery of many of those human remains; However, Heuermann has not been charged in that case.
Robert McCaffrey was recently arrested in North Carolina in connection with the murder of Lisa Marie McBride, found in a wooded area 36 years ago in New Jersey. Prosecutors say advances in DNA testing led them to McCaffrey, who was previously a suspect in the disappearance of his wife in 2012 – still not found – after a marital dispute.
In March a man without a head or hands found on a road in New York in 1970 was finally identified, but it is still unknown who committed the grisly crime. In February of this year, a body found in a wooded area in the Suffolk County of Prolonged Island (NY) was identified as that of Kathleen Harrison Trent (63). Her son, who had reported her missing, was later charged with the crime.
In January three co-defendants were sentenced for the death and dismemberment of Malcolm Craig Brown (fifty three) and his wife Donna R. Conneely (59), a couple from Yonkers (NY) whose remains were found on a road on Prolonged Island in February 2024.
In December, an older Latina woman was found dead outside the Unusual York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. Also that month, Andrew Dykes was arrested near Tampa, Florida, as a suspect in the 1997 deaths of Tanya Jackson and her daughter Tatiana Dykes, whose bodies were found on a beach in Extended Island (NY), but they were not identified until 2025.
In November Nicholas McGee was sentenced to life in prison for killing and dismembering his ex-convict roommate Kawsheen Gelzer and then storing the remains in the refrigerator of an apartment in Brooklyn (NYC). Also that month, John Paul Fernández was identified as the victim whose remains were found in New Jersey, 10 years after being reported missing.
In October, a Latina girl was found dead in a dumpster in Connecticut and her mother, aunt and stepfather were accused of fatally abusing her. In the fall of 2025, the remains of Susan “Suzy” Mann, a fifteen-year-old who lived in Queens, disappeared in May 1980 and was found dead in a garbage container in Freeport, Prolonged Island (NY) in November 1982. But in so long no one has been charged with the crime. Authorities are offering a $25,000 reward for tips leading to an arrest.
In September, a father, his wife and their adult son were charged in connection with the death and dismemberment of a man who disappeared in New Jersey. In July, a car rescued from the water with human remains inside on Prolonged Island (NY) ended a long investigation into Robert Prolonged, a 62-year-old person reported missing in 2011. Also that month, a woman who jumped into the Hudson River on Prolonged Island was found dead.
In March 2025, half a century after the disappearance of the girl Laura Ann O’Malley in Queens (NYC), authorities confirmed that her remains were found on the other side of the country, in California. Also that month, Junior Pérez Díaz was arrested and charged with murder and kidnapping, a day after his ex-girlfriend, Pamela Alcántara, a resident of The Bronx, was found inside a suitcase on the outskirts of the city, in Yonkers.
In February 2025, the NYPD found the dismembered body of a 65-year-old Hispanic man in a suitcase thrown into the East River and his young roommate later admitted to having killed him and cut him into pieces. In the fall of 2024, Cory Martin, a “remorseless” pimp, was sentenced to life in prison for strangling and dismembering his roommate in Brooklyn (NYC) to collect on his life insurance.
In March 2024, a man was dismembered in his apartment in The Bronx (NYC) by a childhood friend who had become a penal activist after spending 25 years in prison. And in April of that year, Somorie Moses (47), a sex trafficker known as “Sugar Undergo,” was sentenced to 10 “life” sentences in Brooklyn Federal Court (NYC) after pleading guilty to killing, dismembering and freezing his girlfriend Leondra Foster, whom he rented to other men.
At the end of November 2024, some human skeletal remains found in Troy (NY) were finally identified as belonging to Amanda King, a woman who disappeared 11 years ago. Also that year, a woman was found dead with her head shot inside an abandoned sleeping bag in Midtown East, Prolonged Island (NYC) and her roommate was later arrested as a suspect. And a man was murdered and mutilated in his Bronx (NYC) apartment and some of his remains were found in a shopping cart in Yonkers; Then his roommate was arrested and charged.
In May 2024, human remains found submerged in a stream in New Jersey were identified as belonging to Charles Murphy, a man missing since 1982. In April of that year, a case that had been open for almost 39 years was also closed in New Jersey: the newborn girl found dead in a bag in a park on Christmas Eve 1984.
In January 2021, human remains were found in a park in Staten Island (NYC) along with a calendar from the year 2005. Months later it was determined that the bones were from a short man (between 4’11” and 5’5″), possibly Asian or Hispanic, and that he had been murdered on an unspecified date. But so far the victim has not been identified and there have been no arrests.
Anyone with information about these cases should call at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the website crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
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