Gilgo Beach Case Update

As of July 14, 2023, Suffolk County Police have arrested Rex Heurermann in connection to the Long Island Serial Killer case. For more information, our coverage can be found here. This is a developing story.

Valarie Mack

Valerie Mack was last seen by her family in the Spring/Summer of 2000 in the area of Port Republic, New Jersey. She was never listed as a missing person. Her last known address was in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area where she had been working as an escort. She used the name "Melissa Taylor." Valerie was a white female with brown hair and hazel eyes, 5 feet tall, weighing ~100 pounds.

On November 19, 2000, the body of a woman was discovered by hikers in the Long Island Pine Barrens in Manorville near Halsey Manor Road. The body had been cut into pieces and placed in plastic bags. It was estimated that she had been dead for several weeks before being found. The victim was a white woman, possibly in her 30s, with brown hair. She was referred to as the "Manorville Jane Doe."

April 4, 2011, a skull, hands, and right foot were found in a plastic bag along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach. These remains would be designated as "Jane Doe #6," until being linked by DNA to the Manorville Jane Doe.

On May 22, 2020 police in Long Island announced they had identified the "Manorville Jane Doe" and would be releasing her identity. A week later, an update was released; her name was Valerie Mack.

(Information provided by: Gilgo Case)