A headless body has been discovered on a beach in Amagansett, Long Island, 100 miles east of Gilgo State Beach, where the remains of 10 people have been uncovered in the past months. Newsday reports [reg. req'd] that the badly decomposed corpse was found washed ashore by a beach walker around 12:30 p.m. on Big Albert's beach between Barnes Hole and Albert's Landing roads. Authorities warn that it is too soon to say if foul play is involved—currently they can't even tell if the body is a man or a woman.
"No one is missing in our jurisdiction," East Hampton Town Police Chief Ed Ecker said. "But judging by how badly it was decomposed, the body could be from anywhere."
The Suffolk County medical examiner's office checked the body and police homicide detectives have begun an investigation, but Ecker warns that "It would be premature" to assume foul play.
