The Skeleton Key Chronicles

16 hours ago

Investigators may finally be getting somewhere in the effort to identify Asian Doe, the last unidentified person found in the Gilgo Beach investigation.

Last week, investigators took that search into Flushing, Queens, hoping people in the Chinese-American community might be able to help. About two dozen people voluntarily provided DNA, and apparently there are already signs that investigators may be finding distant genetic connections to the person they have been trying to identify for the past 15 years.

It’s nowhere near an identification yet. But it’s more to work with than they’ve had before, and that’s a pretty big deal in a case that has gone this long without even a name.

And once you see exactly where this young person was found, it’s easy to understand why investigators have never stopped trying to figure out who they were.

They were found along Ocean Parkway in April 2011, between Megan Waterman and Jessica Taylor and only about 300 feet from Megan. Investigators believe this person had already been there for somewhere between five and ten years.

They were believed to be biologically male and somewhere between 17 and 23 years old. DNA analysis indicates their ancestry likely traced to southern China and the Han Chinese population. But they were wearing women’s clothing, including Bill Blass slacks and undergarments, and investigators have said it’s possible they identified as a woman or were known to others as a woman.

That’s also why there are two very different facial reconstructions of the same person. In 2024, investigators released both male- and female-presenting versions, hoping someone might look at one of those faces and recognize the person they knew.

The DNA search didn’t start in Flushing. Investigators went to Manhattan’s Chinatown in August and collected samples from another two dozen volunteers there. Now, with possible distant genetic connections beginning to emerge, genealogists can start working through those relationships to see whether any of them eventually lead back to a family.

After all these years, we still don’t know this young person’s name, and investigators have never established whether their case is connected to the others along Ocean Parkway. But they may finally have another path toward figuring out who they were.

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21 hours ago

The story surrounding the Ohio family whose 16 children were found inside their Hamden home this summer has taken another turn, and Elizabeth Siders’ court appearance this week filled in a pretty important missing piece of how authorities ended up at that house in the first place.

It turns out another child had previously lived in the home, a relative who apparently stayed with the family for about nine months in 2022. An investigation involving that child is actually what brought authorities to the Siders home on June 30th.

Investigators arrived with a search warrant connected to that separate case and were looking to obtain a DNA sample from Gary Jr. That’s when they see the couple’s 16 children inside. Elizabeth and Gary are now both facing allegations connected to the other child as well.

Elizabeth’s own story is getting a lot more attention now, too. She married Gary Jr. when she was just 15, and according to her attorney, she has given birth to 18 children and has spent much of the last two decades pregnant. He says she has lived a pretty isolated life over those years, with very little contact with people outside the Siders household, and he has now asked that her competency be evaluated.

Elizabeth's recent appearance in court also had a whole lot of people wondering the same thing — is she pregnant again? Her attorney was actually asked about it and wouldn’t say. So that’s one where we’ll have to wait and see.

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1 day ago

A lot more information came out today about that house in Philadelphia, including another name and a much better idea of what investigators have been sorting through. Nicole Fusaro is now the fifth woman whose case has been connected to the investigation surrounding the house on West Chew Avenue.

Nicole was 27 when she went missing in 2018. Her name now joins Amy McHale, Blair Tonzelli, Gabrielle Amarando and Maribel Fressas, whose cases have all been linked to the same property.

And we're finally getting an idea of just how much evidence investigators have. There are more than one million photographs, videos and other digital files that were recovered in connection with the house. Actually there is so much material, the FBI has added more agents to help with the review, and they're only about 30% of the way through it.

So far, they've been able to identify 58 people who appear in those files. Some have already been located and spoken with, while investigators are still working to identify or locate others. At least one woman appearing in the material still doesn't have a name.

Investigators also plan to return to the West Chew Avenue house later this month as they continue putting all of this together. With roughly 70% of the files still left to review, there is a lot about this case they simply haven't gotten to yet.

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