The partial human remains of a ninth person have been found by police hunting for victims of the ‘Craigslist killer’.
Officers searching scrub land and bushes on the North side of Ocean Parkway, Long Island made the grim discovery earlier this morning.
The news comes after it also emerged today one of the nine sets of remains belonged to a child.
The remains were found last week among four sets of bodies several miles away from where the bodies of four prostitutes were located in December.
But the victim may not be related to the other New York murders as a young person’s body ‘would not fit a serial killer’s pattern’, according to law enforcement sources.
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