Possible Victim: Fire Island Jane Doe, UP9098, found Davis Park Apr 1996 & Ocean Parkway Apr 2011 - Karen Vergata

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From the estate doc, not sure if there is any more but I was able to get this. It sounds like the family tried very hard to find out what happened to her:

ESTATE OF KAREN VERGATA, Absentee and Alleged Deceased (15/4685) — Petitioner, the father of alleged absentee Karen Vergata, commenced this proceeding under EPTL §2-1.7(a) for a declaration that Ms. Vergata is deceased and for the issuance of letters of temporary administration in her estate to him.

Ms. Vergata’s last known address was West 45th Street, New York, New York. Petitioner alleges that he last had contact with his daughter on February 14, 1996, when she called him on his birthday. He states that, prior to that, she would call him periodically. In his petition, he describes his efforts to locate her, including hiring an investigator and contacting law enforcement agencies and individuals who had known her. Petitioner states that he does not know whether his daughter owned any assets, but he is seeking letters in order to collect on two insurance policies on her life.
 
Rbbm, Valentine's Day might prove to be pertinent in some way, imo, speculation.
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''CNN —
Suffolk County, New York, authorities on Friday identified a Gilgo Beach murder victim known as “Fire Island Jane Doe” as Karen Vergata, a 34-year-old escort from Manhattan who went missing on Valentine’s Day in 1996.

“I think it’s important that we remember and honor not only Ms. Vergata but all the victims on Gilgo Beach,” Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said at a news conference.

There are “no charges at this time” and investigators will continue to work on the case, Tierney said.''
 
dotr said:
Rbbm, Valentine's Day might prove to be pertinent in some way, imo, speculation.
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''CNN —
Suffolk County, New York, authorities on Friday identified a Gilgo Beach murder victim known as “Fire Island Jane Doe” as Karen Vergata, a 34-year-old escort from Manhattan who went missing on Valentine’s Day in 1996.

“I think it’s important that we remember and honor not only Ms. Vergata but all the victims on Gilgo Beach,” Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said at a news conference.

There are “no charges at this time” and investigators will continue to work on the case, Tierney said.''
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Is this the only picture they could find? Weird.
 
Do we know what her middle name is by chance?
 
nhmemorymaker said:
Is this the only picture they could find? Weird.
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She may have had photographs as an adult, but if they were booking photos, IMO, going with photos of her younger, but in a setting that isn't dehumanising for this press conference is the right call. So many of the women connected to this case by nature of their lives had booking photos taken, and those photos were, in all likelihood, the only ones from that latter part of their lives. Especially ones like Karen, in the pre-phone camera era. It was such a relief to finally see a photo of Jessica Taylor that wasn't that utterly defeated looking mugshot. Or Valerie Mack. I'm glad that the first picture I saw of Karen, she was smiling.

MOO
 
Vergata's stepsister Brenda Breen said in an interview with Newsday Friday, that Vergata was born and raised in Glen Head and attended North Shore High School.

The family had always wondered what happened to her and after she was not located for many years the family assumed she was dead, Breen said.

Vergata's father, Dominic, hired a private investigator at one point and even turned over DNA to that investigator in hopes that it could be used to locate his daughter.

"He kind of wanted closure, I guess," Breen said, as she tended to the bushes outside the family home in Glenwood Landing. "They never found anything."

Dominic Vergata died in December.

Virginia Vergata, Karen's stepmother, declined to speak with reporters. She was informed by police that her stepdaughter's remains had been identified earlier this week, Breen said.

"It's nice to have closure," Breen added.



www.newsday.com

Gilgo Beach killings: Investigators have identified 'Fire Island Jane Doe' as Karen Vergata

Vergata, who lived on West 45th Street in Manhattan and was last seen Feb. 14, 1996, worked as an escort, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said.
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KellySleuth said:
This story is heartbreaking on so many levels, including the fact that there was no one to report her missing. Interesting that the NYP refers to her as a Gilgo victim, when her remains were not found on Gilgo Beach.
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Many weren't. Toddler Doe and Valerie Mack were on Cedar Beach, for example. Many dismembered victims were spread around - Manorville, Jones Beach Park...

I could be wrong, but I think the only ones actually found at Gilgo Beach proper were the GB4 and Asian Doe.

MOO
 
sds71 said:
Vergata's stepsister Brenda Breen said in an interview with Newsday Friday, that Vergata was born and raised in Glen Head and attended North Shore High School.

The family had always wondered what happened to her and after she was not located for many years the family assumed she was dead, Breen said.

Vergata's father, Dominic, hired a private investigator at one point and even turned over DNA to that investigator in hopes that it could be used to locate his daughter.

"He kind of wanted closure, I guess," Breen said, as she tended to the bushes outside the family home in Glenwood Landing. "They never found anything."

Dominic Vergata died in December.

Virginia Vergata, Karen's stepmother, declined to speak with reporters. She was informed by police that her stepdaughter's remains had been identified earlier this week, Breen said.

"It's nice to have closure," Breen added.



www.newsday.com

Gilgo Beach killings: Investigators have identified 'Fire Island Jane Doe' as Karen Vergata

Vergata, who lived on West 45th Street in Manhattan and was last seen Feb. 14, 1996, worked as an escort, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said.
www.newsday.com
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I'm seriously wondering if they mixed up her recon with Valerie's, based on their living photos...
 
iamshadow21 said:
Many weren't. Toddler Doe and Valerie Mack were on Cedar Beach, for example. Many dismembered victims were spread around - Manorville, Jones Beach Park...

I could be wrong, but I think the only ones actually found at Gilgo Beach proper were the GB4 and Asian Doe.

MOO
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Right, but then why refer to them as Gilgo victims instead of LISK for example?
 
KellySleuth said:
Right, but then why refer to them as Gilgo victims instead of LISK for example?
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The same reason why Ridgway is the Green River Killer when only five of his victims were found in the river. They were found 'first', they were found together (Ridgway's five river victims were in two clusters, I think? There was certainly one cluster of three.) and it made the biggest noise in the media. Even though Ridgway had been killing for a while, the five in the river made people sit up, take notice, and realise they had a serial offender.

MOO
 
"The woman, whom investigators had called "Jane Doe No. 7" and "Fire Island Jane Doe," was 34-year-old Karen Vergata, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said Friday. Vergata disappeared around Feb. 14, 1996, and had been living in Manhattan. Her partial remains were first discovered in 1996 on Fire Island. More of her bones were later found near Gilgo Beach in 2011."

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Long Island murder victim "Jane Doe No. 7" identified as Karen Vergata, 27 years after she went missing

Karen Vergata had been living in Manhattan before she disappeared around Feb. 14, 1996, officials said.
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Has it been reported or made known (yes I might have missed it) - whether or not the separate sets of remains attributed to Jane Doe #7 / Karen Vergata were believed to have been deposited in those locations about the same time period? Or was there a known time lapse when they are believed to have been placed in those locations?
MOO
 
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Gilgo Beach victim Jane Doe No. 7 identified as Karen Vergata

Karen Vergata was identified as the remains almost three decades after her legs were found in a plastic bag at Davis Park on Fire Island’s Blue Point Beach on April 20, 1996.
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''Son Eric Doherty, 32, was distraught when reached by phone Friday afternoon after authorities confirmed his mother, Vergata, was the previously-unidentified woman.

“He just thought [Vergata] was missing,” his girlfriend Michelle Nolan, exclusively told The Post.

Eric and his older brother, Gary, are the biological sons of Vergata and a man named Gunther Lind, but were adopted as young children by Edward and Diane Doherty in 1992, Nolan explained.

Nolan said they had received scant details about the break in the case.

“We just…we didn’t have any information,” Nolan said. “Their [adoptive mother] just called to let them know.”

The young mother was struck by a truck when she was pregnant with Gary in the late 1980s, according to Nolan.

Gary, now 34, was born with cerebral palsy as a result of the accident. He now lives in a care home for adults with special needs, and is not yet aware of his mother’s death, she said.

Vergata’s step-sister, Brenda, told The Post on Friday that the news of her body being identified was “kind of a shock.”
 
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