Peaches (murder victim): Difference between revisions

On June 28, 1997, a [[dismemberment|dismembered]] body was discovered by a hiker in a wooded area of [[Hempstead Lake State Park]], [[Lakeview, New York]].<ref name=lipress>{{cite news|last1=Gallucci|first1=Jacklyn|title=Long Island's Unidentified Murder Victims|url=http://archive.longislandpress.com/2010/07/01/long-islands-unidentified-murder-victims/|access-date=1 January 2015|work=Long Island Press|date=1 July 2010}}</ref> The head, both arms, and both legs (below the knee) were severed and have yet to be found. The torso was found on the west side of Lake Drive, about 200 yards north of Peninsula Boulevard right by the McDonald Pond. She was found in a [[Rubbermaid]] container along with a red towel and a floral pillowcase. With no leads to the woman's identity, the police published a picture of the approximately two-inch-wide tattoo in a national tattoo magazine, in the hopes of finding the artist who did the work. They received a call from Steve Cullen, a tattoo artist in [[Connecticut]] who claimed he remembered giving the tattoo to a woman. Cullen said he remembered the customer as a young black woman, about 18 or 19 years old, who was accompanied by two women, an aunt and a cousin. During the session, he also claimed she told him she was from either the Bronx or Long Island and that she was in Connecticut because she was having trouble with her boyfriend at the time. It is possible the woman had other tattoos on her arms or lower legs that the killer did not want found.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/151ufny.html|title=The Doe Network: Case File 151UFNY|publisher=Doenetwork.org|access-date=15 October 2014}}</ref>