The lawsuit was dismissed because it could not be proven that Hackett had administered drugs or treatment to Gilbert. [16], Jamie Seymour, a 21-year-old escort and drug user, was last seen in Brick, New Jersey, on July 22, 2005. Unraveled: The Long Island Serial Killer (2021), a seven-part podcast series released by Investigation Discovery. She vanished in July, along with victims Melissa Barthelemy, Maureen Brainard Barnes, and Jessica Taylor. Bittrolff is also a person of interest since the daughter of his victim Tangredi was good friends with Melissa Barthlemy, one of the Gilgo Beach Four and Melissa had apparently received a number of calls from the Manorville area (where Bittrolff was living at the time). [10] Shannan Gilbert's remains were finally located in Oak Beach in December 2011, 19 months after her disappearance. DNA analysis later positively indicated that the remains belonged to a woman whose torso had been found in Hempstead Lake State Park fourteen years earlier. [49], A third set of remains the skeleton of a female toddler between 16 and 24 months of age (or, by another account, 1 to 4 years of age[52]) was found on April 4, 2011 about 250 feet (80m) away from the partial remains of Valerie Mack. [88] In an April 2011 prison interview with Newsday, Rifkin denied having anything to do with recently discovered remains. Bittroff had been convicted in May of that year of the murders of two sex workers in 1993 and 1994. A chief of department is typically in charge of the police force's day-to-day affairs, including patrol, detectives and support services, answering to the commissioner. [94], In December 2016 an attorney for Shannan Gilbert's family reported that an escort had stated that she suspected that Burke might be connected to the LISK cases. The very different MOs, according to some, suggest two different personality types. The remains were later identified as Melissa Barthelemy's. At the time of her disappearance, she was working at a Super 8 motel in Manhattan. In 1979, James Burke became a teenage witness in one of Long Island's most notorious murder cases: the suffocation of 13-year-old John Pius in Smithtown. The newly-discovered victims were Jessica Taylor, Valerie Mack, an unidentified woman designated "Jane Doe No. 2007 graduate of The Energia Partnership at Molloy College, a regional leadership academy. [94] Burke pleaded guilty in February 2016 to charges of a civil rights violation and conspiracy to obstruct justice. As the county hustled to bring the case to a dubious resolution, a wayward local teenager emerged with a convenient story to tell. The disgraced former New York prosecutor who helped cover up the jailhouse beating of a man who stole items including a duffel bag containing sex toys from a local police chief whose name was dragged into the unsolved Long Island Serial Killer case was sentenced to five years in prison this week. The vehicle was described as a red BMW-type coupe driven by a Hispanic man. Born James Conway on July 5, 1931, in New York, he never knew who his father was. Never identified, the victim is referred to as "Cherries" by investigators. James Lee Burke (born December 5, 1936) is an American author, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He played for the Buffalo Bisons and Boston Reds . "I looked up to the Suffolk homicide detectives, I looked up to the prosecutors," said Burke, 47, now Suffolk police's chief of department, the highest-ranking officer on the more than 2,500- member uniformed force. [11] The FBI had previously assisted in the search for victims but had never officially been a part of the investigation. 6", "Jane Doe No. Shes been an entertainment journalist for more than 15 years previously working at DVD & Blu-ray. [34] She had been strangled. The next month, in April 2011, police discovered three additional sets of remains: an unidentified female toddler, an unidentified Asian person, and Valerie Mack, partial remains of whom like those of Jessica Taylor had been found in Manorville years earlier in November, 2000. convicted killer could be tied to Gilgo Beach murders", "Police release picture of new evidence in Gilgo Beach murder case", "New forensic advances could help solve Gilgo Beach murder, experts say", "Suffolk Police ID Another Long Island Serial Killer Victim", "DA: Norwich woman likely a victim of serial killer", "Maureen Brainard-Barnes The Long Island Ripper", "Three more human remains found on Long Island", "Drawn to city's glamour, cut down by serial killer", "Prostitutes' killer seen as versed in police techniques", "Prosecutor Suggests a N.Y. Carpenter Could Be a Suspect in the Long Island Serial Killer Case", "Police find more victims of suspected Long Island serial killer", "For the first time, daughter of Long Island serial killer victim from Maine speaks out", "Did The Long Island Serial Killer Shop For Look-Alike Victims Online? [59], 19-year-old Tina Foglia was last seen alive in the early morning hours of February 1, 1982 at the Hammerheads rock music venue on Sunrise Highway, West Islip. [32] Born in Charlotte and raised in Wilmington, North Carolina, Costello was living in West Babylon, New York when she disappeared. Christopher McPartland, who had been Suffolk Countys top anticorruption prosecutor, was also convicted in the conspiracy. [26] Barthelmy was 4ft 10in (1.47m) tall and 95 pounds (43kg). [86] He may have a detailed knowledge of law enforcement techniques, and perhaps ties to law enforcement, which have thus far helped him avoid detection. [8] On November 29, 2011, however, police announced that they believed one person to be responsible for all ten murders, and that the perpetrator is almost certainly from Long Island. James Burke became a Suffolk Police officer in 1986, at age 21. Biancavilla stated that Bittrolff was likely responsible for the deaths of other women, and that there were similarities between the Gilgo Beach crime scenes and Bittrolff's known murders, for which he was convicted in May 2017 and sentenced in September. Mr. Spota and Mr. McPartland, 55, had each requested sentences that included. "And if they don't, then they wouldn't match up with the kind of commissioner that I want.". (2020). . She described an experience in which Burke violently yanked her head during oral sex to the point where she began to tear up. Its evidence theyd had for nine years and its not clear why they chose to release it now. James Burke. He was appointed by Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota as the chief investigator of the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office. Gilbert's family filed a wrongful death suit against Hackett in November 2012 claiming that he took Gilbert into his home that morning and administered drugs to her, facilitating her death. He did, however, comment that the nature of the calls contradict what Suffolk Police Detective Vincent Stephan had described in earlier reports about the calls from that morning. It's all part of a corruption case involving a former Long Island district attorney. Just after Burke began his sentence in December 2016, a 30-year-old woman, identified as Leanne, came forward at a news conference where she claimed Burke had paid her for sex during a house party in the same area where victim Shannan Gilbert had disappeared. Positions: Pitcher and Rightfielder Bats: Unknown Throws: Unknown Born: (Date unknown) in Attleboro, MA us Debut: June 10, 1882 (568th in major league history) Last Game: September 15, 1884 Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1884 season Full Name: James Burke Bittrolff was arrested in 2014 for the deaths of Rita Tangredi and Colleen McNamee whose bodies were found in the early 90s after he was linked to them via DNA. 60 Minutes Australia: "Who is the Long Island serial killer?" On April 11, 2011 police in Nassau County discovered dismembered skeletal human remains inside a plastic bag near Jones Beach State Park. A few weeks after becoming chief, Burke was leaving a meeting with Bellone in Hauppauge when he heard about a bank robbery in nearby Nesconset. This page was last edited on 26 April 2023, at 04:17. 3," found on April 4 and 11, respectively. Rush was African-American and lived in the Van Dyke Houses, a Brownsville public housing complex in Brooklyn, New York. Burke, a long-time protg of Spota, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to depriving a person of civil rights and conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice. 3." Specifically, Gilbert's tone had been described by Detective Stephan as calm and indicated no desperation. Burke, who was named Suffolk police chief in 2012, beat a handcuffed prisoner who had been . James Burke, left, former chief of the Suffolk County Police Department, is taken into custody by FBI agents outside his home in Smithtown on Dec. 9, 2015. Credit: James Carbone By Robert E . She said shed seen Burke at a cocaine-fueled party in Oak Beach in June 2011, where she observed [Burke] pull a woman by her hair to the ground,, As chief of the SCPD, Burke had been involved in the Gilgo Beach investigations, and in fact, had fired Suffolk County Chief of Detectives Dominic Varrone in late 2011 just two days after Gilberts body was found. For his cooperation, Jimmy Burke was rewarded with a job as a cop. Varrone told New York station PIX11 in 2019 that he believed this hindered the investigation, calling his sacking a little bit of a dropping of the baton.. Investigators reported that the victim had a tattoo on her left breast of a heart-shaped peach with a bite out of it and two drips falling from its core. She was determined to have been stabbed to death. 3" are positively identified as being the same person. The man claimed that he had just seen Brainard-Barnes and that she was alive and staying at a "whorehouse in Queens." Around this time Gilbert called 9-1-1 saying that "they were trying to kill her." [68], On June 23, 2008 Tanya Rush, 39, was last seen around 3 a.m. walking towards a subway station in Brooklyn. Burkes attorney, Joseph Conway, responded by saying that allegations that James Burke had any involvement in the Gilgo Beach murders is completely outrageous., As chief of the SCPD, Burke had been involved in the Gilgo Beach investigations, and in fact, had fired Suffolk County Chief of Detectives Dominic Varrone in late 2011 just two days after Gilberts body was found. Strikeouts. Neither he nor Acting Commissioner Edward Webber are candidates, they have said. James Burke is a former Suffolk County Police Chief who got shrouded in accusations of being involved in Long Island serial killings after rumors of his prior involvements with local sex workers came to light, placing him at a possible crime scene. This was not a momentary moral lapse but years of criminal cover-up, U.S. District Judge Joan Azrack said at sentencing on Tuesday. Let's take a look at all the prime suspects and victims over the years . Her cause of death remains contested, with police claiming accidental drowning while an independent autopsy determined possible strangulation. I dont think the killer would reside in Oak Beach and dispose of bodies so close, Varrone said. Gilbert made an emergency 9-1-1 call that night saying that she feared for her life. 3" were positively identified as being the same person. Jamie spent a lot of time prior to her disappearance in New York City and had a criminal record. Burke, incorporating his DA's experience into his new role, says increased wiretapping and cultivation of informants -- tactics he and Spota employed to bring indictments and convictions in organized crime and political corruption cases -- may be useful in fighting gangs. Amid this cover-up, Burke became connected to the ongoing Long Island Serial Killer case, which involves the murders of at least 10 people, mostly female sex workers, who have been found dead on Long Island over a nearly 20-year period. The caller eventually tells Amanda that her sister is dead. Just after Burke began his sentence in December 2016, a 30-year-old woman, identified as Leanne, came forward at a news conference where she claimed Burke had paid her for sex during a house party in the same area where victim Shannan Gilbert had disappeared. His Irish mother, Jane . The torso was found in a green plastic Rubbermaid container, which was dumped next to a road along the west side of the lake. The experience helped focus him on a career in law enforcement. "He's probably one of the brightest men I've met in law enforcement," said Robert Creighton, a Republican councilman in Smithtown who oversaw DA investigators while Burke supervised police detectives in Spota's office. Baden also noted that her body was found face-up, which is not common for drowning victims. The remains are believed to be those of a woman between the ages of 20 and 30 who was possibly Asian. The first discovery of human remains was made by the side of Ocean Parkway in Oak Beach on December 11, 2010. There has been some speculation that the unidentified murderer known as The Eastbound Strangler could have been the LISK. While police work also was already a key part of Burke's upbringing -- his father and grandfather were New York City cops -- involvement in the Pius case gave him other role models. She left for a client's residence in Oak Beach after midnight on May 1, 2010. Jimmy Burke was played by Robert DeNiro in the 1990 hit film, Goodfella's. In real life, Jimmy the Gent Burke was a ruthless killer and associate of the Luchesse crime family. "He was just a neighborhood kid," Spota recalled of the teenage Burke he knew in the early 1980s. The unidentified bodies included three women, a man dressed in womens clothing, and a baby who was the child of one of the unidentified women. [72] After nineteen months of searching police found Gilbert's remains in a marsh, half a mile from where she was last seen. On the night of July 9, 2007 she called a friend in Connecticut and told her that she was planning on meeting a client outside of the motel. Police however did not find any evidence of wrongdoing and Brewer was quickly cleared as a suspect. [46][47] She had worked in Washington, D.C. and Manhattan as a sex worker. [24] On the night she went missing she met with a client, deposited $900 in her bank account, and attempted to call an old boyfriend, but did not get through. Burke, 56, who pleaded guilty to civil rights and conspiracy charges, was sentenced to 46 months in prison in 2016. As well as the bodies found around Ocean Parkway, there are other victims who could possibly be linked to the case. He had access to burlap sacks, which he used to hold the bodies for disposal. [25] Barthelemy's mother noted that there were "a lot of calls to Manorville" from her daughter's phone around the time of her disappearance. Taylor's torso was found atop a pile of scrap wood at the end of a paved access road off Halsey Manor Road, just north of where it crosses the Long Island Expressway. She said shed seen Burke at a cocaine-fueled party in Oak Beach in June 2011, where she observed [Burke] pull a woman by her hair to the ground, according to the New York Post. As Rolling Stone reports, on May 1, 2010, a 24-year-old sex worker named Shannan Gilbert went missing in Long Island. She called her father on July 22 to let him know she was on her way to the Port Authority area to meet a client. "Frankly, the police department is now in need of someone that imaginative. Oxygen Insider is your all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more. The other remains were those of "Jane Doe No. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! The victim was later identified as Jacqueline Smith. Promoted to sergeant, 1991; lieutenant, 2000. He wants to get out there and mix it up with the troops in the trenches.". Over the course of summer 2010, Mallia unsuccessfully searched the gated beach community where Gilbert had last been seen. [45], Further remains found on March 29, 2011 at Gilgo including the remains of a skull, a pair of hands, and a forearm that were matched to Taylor. [77], On July 23, 2016 Mari Gilbert was murdered in her home in Ellenville, New York. Under the court order Ray is barred from discussing the specifics of the call. Her family believed that she was in a residential drug rehabilitation center and so she was not immediately reported missing when she stopped responding to messages and phone calls. Her torso was found wrapped in garbage bags and dumped in the woods near the intersection of Halsey Manor Road and Mill Road, adjacent to a set of power lines and a nearby power line access road.[41]. But to get back to my roots, to put on a uniform again, to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with these young cops out there with their lights and sirens on . Hired as Suffolk police officer in 1986. [99] One of Bissett's businesses was a plant nursery which was the main supplier of burlap in the region. Valerie Mack, 24, also known as Melissa Taylor, was living in Philadelphia and working as an escort when she went missing in 2000. [66], After the final phone call to her mother when two weeks passed and no one heard from Jamie the family became worried. Six more sets of remains were found in March and April 2011 in Suffolk and Nassau counties. [19][20] Brainard-Barnes, a mother of two, worked as a paid escort via Craigslist to pay the mortgage on her house. 7 had a surgical scar on her left leg. 3," whose body was found 10 miles (16km) east, near Jones Beach State Park. Burke was apprehensive about the Feds and other agencies looking into his agency's investigation not because he is the LISK, but most likely because somewhere along the way his agency fucked up with their investigation, and he tried to cover his/his agency's ass. In 1999, 16 yr old Jacqueline Smith was reported missing in confines of 67 Precinct in", "The Charley Project: Jacqueline Ashley Smith", "Mom thinks death of son who dressed as a woman, found dismembered is tied to Gilgo Beach murders", "2 murders eyed for tie to LI serial slays", "Police seek clues in 2008 murder of Brooklyn mom found dismembered in suitcase", "Tanya Rush's brutal 2008 slaying remains mystery for daughter, police", "Body of Shannan Gilbert found in Oak Beach, L.I. Other people of interest include Shannan's last client Joseph Brewer though he was cleared early on, a police chief called James Burke who had hired sex workers before and blocked the FBI. "Cherries" was dismembered in a fashion similar to three other victims (Jessica Taylor, Valerie Mack, and "Peaches") meaning she may be linked to the other official victims. Linkletter. The single killer theory stems from common characteristics between the condition of the remains and forensic evidence related to the bodies. [49] In September 2011, police released a composite sketch of the victim. In the Pius case, three boys Burke knew from the neighborhood -- ages 14 to 17 -- were convicted in trials and retrials that stretched into the 1990s. [67], Jamie was a young woman with a small frame, like almost every victim of the Long Island serial killer. Other possible victims of the LISK (or one of the LISKs if indeed there was more than one) include 19-year-old Tina Foglia who disappeared in 1982 and whose body was found dismembered not too far from the Gilgo Beach area, two women whose dismembered bodies were found in suitcases, one of whom was identified as Tanya Rush, a woman called Natasha Jugo whose body washed up on Gilgo Beach in 2013, and another unidentified woman whose body was found in Long Island. The bag belonged to James Burke, the police chief in Suffolk County, and was stolen from his parked car . Two years later,. September 2017: John Bittrolff, a carpenter from Manorville convicted of the murders of two other prostitutes, is named as a suspect in the LISK cases. [17] On May 28, 2020, "Jane Doe No. On July 26, 2003 her naked and dismembered torso, missing its head and hands, was discovered 45 miles (72km) east of Gilgo Beach in Manorville, New York;[44] these remains were identified by DNA analysis later that year. "Any person that I would select as commissioner would love Jim Burke," Bellone said in an interview before taking office in January. [13][14], On January 16, 2020, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart released images of a belt found at the crime scene with the letters "HM" or "WH" (depending on the orientation of the belt) embossed in black leather. He was educated at Maidstone Grammar School, and then served in the RAF from 1957 to 1959 before being accepted at Jesus College, Oxford, where he studied Middle English, obtaining both BA and MA degrees. [28][29] Waterman was 5ft 5in (1.65m) tall. James Burke. [49] One of the sets of remains found in Nassau County on April 11 was later identified as the mother of the toddler.[49]. The bodies of the four victims Maureen Brainard, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello were found approximately 500 feet (150m) from each other.[5][6]. At trial, an officer testified for the government about a 2015 meeting at Spotas office, where he explained that as federal investigators began probing Loebs beating for a second time, Spota asked him to find out if anyone who was aware of the attack had flipped.. [79] The tapes were released to Gilbert's estate attorney, John Ray, a short time later. The victim was dubbed "Jane Doe No. ", Education Smithtown East High School graduate. Shannans death however, was ruled misadventure with police concluding that she drowned or died of exposure, even though a missing bone in her neck could have indicated strangulation, which is how the Gilgo Beach Four were all killed. [64] According to a friend, Isaac was last seen shortly before Thanksgiving, getting into a car with a "secret friend." And as a Third Precinct lieutenant in the early 2000s, Burke got his first extended experience with the language barriers and cultural distrust of police in immigrant communities, including Brentwood and Central Islip. In May 2013 the FBI and the US Attorney's Office opened an investigation into alleged actions by Burke when employed as Chief of the Suffolk County Police Department: the alleged assault of a suspect in police custody, a subsequent cover-up, and coercion of witnesses. The series centers on the scandal-ridden former Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke, who infamously kicked the FBI off the case soon after he stepped into the position in 2012. This includes the so-called "Gilgo Four," young women whose bodies were found in late 2010 within a quarter of a mile of each other near Gilgo Beach on Long Islands south shore. March 29, 2011: Jessica Taylors further partial remains found at Gilgo, April 4, 2011: Valerie Macks further partial remains found, April 4, 2011: Baby Doe, the 16-24-month-old daughter of Peaches, found, April 4, 2011: "John Doe" / "Asian male" found, April 11, 2011: "Peaches" / "Jane Doe No. Lost Girls presents as the most likely culprit for Shannans murder at least Dr. Peter Hackett, a local physician who called Mari Gilbert after Shannans disappearance saying he runs a home for wayward girls and that hed drugged Shannan against her will and thats even before Mari knew that her daughter was missing. [74] On November 15, 2012 a lawsuit was filed by her mother, Mari Gilbert, against the Suffolk County Police Department in the hopes of getting more answers about what happened to her daughter the night she went missing. It is important to note that Gilbert is not a confirmed victim. 7s further partial remains found at Tobay Beach, December 13, 2011: Shannan Gilberts remains are found in a marsh at Oak Beach, December 2016: "Peaches" and "Jane Doe No. The once popular and swaggering chief of the Suffolk County Police Department, James Burke, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison on Wednesday for a series of misdeeds that began after. He has won Edgar Awards for Black Cherry Blues (1990) and Cimarron Rose (1998), and has also been presented with the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.The Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen, first by Alec Baldwin (Heaven's Prisoners) and then Tommy . "We used to walk the areas where the drugs were, and he'd come with us, even if he was off.". They also announced the launch of a site gilgonews.com which would be used to gather tips and post updates (but the site doesnt currently work). [60], A diamond ring that Foglia was known to wear was missing and the DNA of an unknown male was found on the garbage bags. [51] The toddler was reported to be African-American and was wearing gold earrings and a gold necklace.[51][54][52]. According to the New York Times, the perpetrator is most likely a white male who would have been in his mid-twenties to mid-forties and who is very familiar with the South Shore of Long Island. [76] Upon examination of Gilbert's remains Baden found damage to her hyoid bone suggesting that strangulation may have occurred. "It was a challenge.". [30] She had been strangled. She had hitchhiked from her home to the venue to see a friend performing with a Queens-based band Equinox. At the time she was not a professional prostitute and she states that this was the first time she was paid for sex.[96][97]. "But [Burke] seems to be breaking that mold. The septuagenarian said he hopes not to die in prison alone. Prosecutors made the case for both men to spend eightyears behind bars, telling the court that in covering up a top police officers crime, they were doing the exact opposite of their jobs. [65] Isaac's case was added to the Suffolk County Police Department Gilgo News website on May 29, 2020. zeezle 2 yr. ago I agree completely. [62][63], Andre Isaac was a professional drag queen known by his stage name "Sugar Bear". All of the remains were found in another area off the parkway near Oak Beach and Gilgo Beach, within two miles and to the east of those found in December 2010. [27] Waterman was a mother of one and had become a victim of sex trafficking. In March 2011, partial remains of Jessica Taylor were found along Ocean Parkway; eight years earlier, in 2003, other parts of Taylor's remains had been found in Manorville, a town in Suffolk County. A head, right foot, and hands found on April 4, 2011 were at first determined to have belonged to an unidentified victim, dubbed "Jane Doe No. [26] In September 2017 John Bittrolff, a carpenter from that town convicted of two other murders, was named as a suspect in the LISK cases. This case involved four sex workers who were believed to have been strangled to death and found layed out in a row in a drainage ditch near Atlantic City. 9 2021, Published 5:52 p.m. James Burke was formerly the police chief of the Suffolk County Police Department and previously served in the rank of Inspector as the commanding officer of the police department's Organized Crime Bureau. [51][49][54] Jane Doe No. There have been few leads in Jamies case and her sister believes that she met with foul play. Burke was arrested in 2015 and later pleaded guilty to assaulting a young heroin addict from Smithtown, while the man was handcuffed in a police precinct, because the man had broken into. Seymour used someone else's phone at the Manhattan Port Authority to call her mother later that day. The Den of Geek quarterly magazine is packed with exclusive features, interviews, previews and deep dives into geek culture. They believe that she was in a drug induced panic and have concluded that hers was "death by misadventure" or "inconclusive." Police discovered three additional bodies while searching the scene for further evidence. Burke was officially hired by the Suffolk County Police Department in 1986 as a 21-year-old. [13] Bittrolff was convicted in May 2017 of these murders, and in September sentenced to consecutive terms of 25 years for each murder. [56], On December 13, 2011 police announced that the remains of Shannan Gilbert had been found in a marsh about half a mile from where she had disappeared. July August 2009: Amanda Barthelemy, sister of Melissa Barthelemy, receives a series of "vulgar, mocking and insulting" calls from a man using Melissa Barthelemy's cell phone. She was reported missing on August 12, 1999. James Cobb Burke (1915-1964), American photographer and photojournalist. He then ordered that multiple high-ranking commanders in the Suffolk County Police Department ensure officers who had witnessed the assault would never reveal what they had observed., Spota was recruited into the conspiracy at this point, along with McPartland, who was then the chief of investigations of an anti-corruption bureau. Before Bellone tapped him, Burke spent a decade working in the office of District Attorney Thomas Spota, who was head of the DA's homicide unit at the time of the Pius prosecution. In 2002, the newly elected Spota tapped Burke to run the squad of police detectives in his office, who until then mostly worked organized crime cases with fraud and money laundering. In the movie Mari has three children, Shannan, Sarra, and Sherre. She had been out of the sex industry for seven months but she returned to the work in order to pay her bills after receiving an eviction notice. James Burke, left, and Dennis Sullivan in their patrol vehicle, circa 1988. Appointed in January as chief of department. Leanne said that when she saw Burke at a later party in August 2011 she decided to engage in sexual activity with him. For other uses, see, Identification of Valerie Mack through genetic genealogy, Victims discovered in March and April 2011, Valerie Mack / Melissa Taylor / "Manorville Jane Doe" / "Jane Doe No. Jim Burke (disambiguation) James Burke (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 20 . James Burke is former Police Chief in Suffolk County, New York. 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