Joseph Ruis.
He's your man
He has an alibi but can easily be charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Joe Newman is an accessory and can be charged, as well. He likely has connections to the Genovese family who ran a body disposal factory out in Long Island OR Ruis worked to further the interests of the Genovese family by another prostitution racket. Joe Brewer lures them out there, they make the kill, they cart the body off, dispose of them at the aquarium the bodies are dismembered and stored there...after they strip it to bone...Petrocellis landscaping business takes the bones and remains and buries them with saplings and aggressive marsh plants which explains why the bones were bright white and in a place with brush far too thick to access on foot. It's probably why you can't find Shannan's larynx and hyoid bone. The burial method is an Italian "green burial"
Entertain the piranha theory, these bones were found stripped and pristine white like they had been bleached, which was impossible if they decomposed in dirt or in a marsh.
Bones turn yellow and brown not only from dirt, but from organic material from the body that decomposes on top of the bone. However, if the body is freshly dead before advanced decomposition and is stripped away from the bone quickly, you will see bright white bones. Take a look at compound fractures (if you can handle looking at them) you will notice that the bone protrusion is bright white.
There is a way to tell if these bones have undergone a bleaching process because the chemical and sunlight used to bleach bones makes them brittle and more fragile.
Do the bones have tiny scratches or scrapes in the exterior? They would be consistent with other findings that are disturbed by animals but piranhas have tiny triangular shaped teeth. You would notice a tiny surface scratch with an upward trajectory due to the species's underbite. They grab flesh and hook it with the bottom teeth then use the top teeth to clamp down and pull away. You'd notice the tiniest evidence of minor scratching in the bones.
Does forensics even cover how to handle piranhas? I know we can analyze human and animal bites but what about fish?
I got to hand it to you New York, you definitely have some of the most creative homicides I have ever seen in my life.
So this is what I think happened, oddly enough, my first explanation of how "white" bones were found when recovering the bodies was crab traps. This was before I even knew about the aquarium connection.
So, the thing with piranhas--they don't go after things that are alive. They're like the "vultures" of amazonian fresh water. Also it would take 350-500 red bellied piranhas to strip a whole human into skeleton...Unless the bodies were dismembered first. Then they could store different parts and use it as food so you'd need far less piranhas if you have a safe location to store a body and time and access.
Now the guy who killed himself from Long Island Aquarium in the park with a self inflicted gun shot wound that everybody insisted was the killer because of the burlap. There is a man named Joe Petrocelli who has a family landscaping business and a construction business (any west mesa connections to that build site?). They also use burlap to plant seedlings in landscaping.
Now so lets hypothetically imagine the co owner figured out what happened. They staged the suicide took over the business and now have a mob controlled aquarium.
Then after they get rid of the body's flesh and such they wrap the bones in burlap with a seedling of some kind of crazy marsh brush and bramble bushes. Then they put it next to the highway and that's how the bodies wound up so thick in bramble that a human being could not walk there and bury something or they could not run there to get stuck and die. Now that the liability who might have ratted on the aquarium body disposal people is dead, long island aquarium gets invested in and expands and I don't know if they have reptiles but bone meal is a part of a reptiles normal diet as calcium supplements and we should probably figure out a way to stop the mob from having an aquarium before they figure that out on their own if they have not figured it out already.
Did the Irish not have a tradition of burying a body with a tree sapling on top of it? Nope. It's an Italian thing. Holy *advertiser censored*. Guys. Capsula mundi burial pods. In burlap.