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Hey, listener. In this episode, we'll be talking a lot about acts of violence and murder, including serial killers. We'll be talking about grave exhumation, too. We're also going to meet some of the people who freely give up their time to help bring closure to the families of missing, murdered, and unidentified people. This is the kind of work our charity partner, DNA Doe Project, does. I'd encourage you to check them out if you're affected by the themes of this episode.

They work with law enforcement to identify Jane and John Does using genetic genealogy in the hopes of reuniting the bodies of unidentified people with their families. You can find them at dnadoproject.org. And as usual, you're probably going to hear me swearing. It's the habit of a lifetime, so there's no stopping it now. I want to tell you a story about an island.

an unassuming, mile-long island in New York with a complicated, buried history. Today, Heart Island is the final resting place for over one million people. It's the USA's largest public cemetery, the place where locals are buried if they're unclaimed, unidentified, or sometimes because their families just can't afford to bury them closer to home. Back in the early 1600s, this land belonged to the Siwanui Nation,

They were indigenous to the coastal areas of the Long Island Sound in modern-day New York and Connecticut. But then the Europeans arrived and massacred the local native communities. Eventually, the Siwanui were left with no choice. They sold Heart Island and 50,000 acres of other land to a British physician named Thomas Pell.

Since then, it's played host to a prisoner of war camp, workhouses, a yellow fever quarantine site, and a psychiatric hospital. That is, until it became the public cemetery it is today. Which brings us to our story, our Jane Doe, our lost sister. When you start out an investigation like ours, trying to find someone who seemingly dropped off the map decades ago, it's hard to know where to begin.

You find there's a lot more stumbling around in the dark than you expected. But occasionally, those stumbles, well, they turn up something worthwhile. Like a few months ago, when my producer Anna came across a charity called the Heart Island Project.

They make it their mission to tell the stories of the people who are buried there. On their website, there's currently 75,783 profiles, which include everyone's basic burial information. Friends and loved ones can add anecdotes and photos to the profiles so that even in death, their loved ones can be brought to life. And that, well, that's something that the girlfriends can get behind.

So Anna called the charity and asked if they knew where our Jane Doe's remains could have gone after the medical examiners confirmed that she was not Gail Katz. If they didn't know who the torso belonged to, then it would automatically be buried on Heart Island because all human remains that are not released to a private funeral director are buried on Heart Island.

Okay, so without a doubt, at some point, that torso was buried on Heart Island. Yes. Dear listener, I think we just found our first real lead. I'm Carol Fisher, and from the teams at Novel and iHeart Podcasts, this is The Girlfriends, Our Lost Sister. Episode 3, Lost and Found. ♪♪

After Melinda Hunt, the founder of the Heart Island Project, told us that our Jane Doe is more than likely on Heart Island, we asked her for some help.

What I could do is go back and do a manual search for that time period in the ledgers to see if there's a torso listed. By ledgers, Melinda means Heart Island's burial records. What is the timeframe for the search? Literally all we know is that it was in September 98 that she was identified as not Gail. It

It was during the lead-up to Bob Bierenbaum's trial for the murder of Gail Katz that the torso was confirmed not to be Gail, and so the official status was returned to Jane Doe. I would search starting September 98 through August 2000, and it would be female torso. White or black? White. And what's the age? Around 30. Okay. Obviously unknown. Okay.

Melinda agreed to look into it for us. To be honest, we weren't that hopeful. But she assured Anna that if our girl was there, she'd find her. It's not that common to see a torso listed. Is it not? No, it's not common at all. With that, Melinda starts diving into the Heart Island paperwork to see what she can uncover.

It's going to take a lot of painstaking work, individually examining page after page of handwritten ledgers. It could take weeks, maybe more. So once again, we're left waiting for an email to come through that could change everything. In the meantime, Anna spends night after night in the glow of her laptop screen, trawling the missing person's databases for anything that could lead us to our girl. Uh, uh, uh.

Torso, New York City, 1989. Unidentified bodies database. ME case number. R89563. Okay, so nothing comes up on that medical examiner number. Okay.

Fucking hell. They all look like such serial killers. Sminging. Severed. Horrible. I'm going to Wikipedia. The state of New York. 1989. Female. Missing persons report. Oh, this is interesting. Oh, wow. One of them was found on Staten Island. Unidentified. But not a torso. This just isn't working. And then an email from Melinda. Anna gets the gang together on an emergency call.

Oh. Oh my god. What? She's clearly excited, but frankly, I don't know what the fuck's going on. Tell me what it fucking says. Oh my god, wait. Page two, row 12. Is everyone there? Oh wait, I'm on the wrong page. Oh my god. Attached to the email are some hazy photocopies of the handwritten Heart Island ledgers. It's pages and pages of names, dates, locations of death, and burial permit numbers.

And there's one entry in particular that's standing out, even to me. Oh. Oh my god. Wait. Oh my god. Wait. Wait. What? Here's what it says. Unknown female. Age 20. Date of permit, August 24th, 2000. Date of death, May 21st, 1989. On Front Street? That's exactly when and where the torso of our Jane Doe first appeared. Down to the specific street.

And the date of permit, basically when the torso was buried on Hard Island, was August 24th, 2000, which is the same year that a certain fuckhead named Bob Bierenbaum was convicted for the murder of Gail Katz. Holy shit.

But before we get too ahead of ourselves, Anna phones Melinda to see what she thinks. A match is a match. The date of death is correct, and the location is correct, and you know this person was unidentified. That's a match. Dare we say it? That is really our girl? After over a year's worth of investigation, it looks like we finally caught up with her. And now that we found her, we don't want to waste any more time.

So we're going to pay her a visit. It's time to go to Heart Island.

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They only allow visitors to Heart Island once a fortnight. So after finding an entry for our lost sister in the ledgers, we booked the next available slot to visit.

But while we found her grave site, our job isn't done yet. She's listed as an unknown, and what we really want to know is who she is. So we call some experts to ask how we can go about identifying her. It's a simple process to do an exhumation of Adele. And then we just, somebody just takes a sample and we go? Yeah. Yeah.

This is Bob and Tracy from our friends at DNA Doe, the volunteer-run organization that uses genetic genealogy to identify unknown people. In other words, they test DNA against other people that they have in their systems to build potential family trees and connect unidentified people with their loved ones.

Now, we should be able to get this kind of DNA information from the medical examiners, but as we heard in our last episode, they're not being very forthcoming. Luckily, DNA dough are the next best thing. Basically, if you were looking to go the genealogy route, you would need to have the sample sent to a lab. They would create a profile. That profile would then be uploaded to GenMatch and or FamilyTreeDNA and then try to make the identification of who that torso belonged to.

Finding our Jane Doe's family would be a dream come true. But as always, there's a catch. And is that really expensive? It varies with the Dana Doe Project. We tend to offer some funding options for all volunteers. So we volunteer our services. There's also grants sometimes, so there's money available. There are options where it's less expensive, but typically, usually around $5,000.

Okay, we'll go find some DNA. It's easy, right? Just go get it. It's not that hard, right? Just go get it. Shortly after the call with DNA Doe, Anna finds herself on the edge of the Bronx, standing in the freezing rain, waiting to board a ferry. Hi, how are you feeling? Next to her, bundled up in a hat and gloves, is Gail Katz's sister, Elaine. There's the people here.

Elaine spent nine years grieving beside Gail's grave when she believed the torso inside the coffin belonged to her sister. Elaine has never had the closure she deserves. Gail's body was never found, and it might never be. Even all these years after our Jane Doe's torso was removed from Gail's grave, Elaine still feels a connection to this woman. It's why she's come today, so she can pay her respects. Good morning to everybody. Good morning.

Together, along with the clusters of families holding flowers, soft toys and photos, Elaine and Anna board the ferry. On a nice summer's day, the outside deck is probably filled with people.

But today, with the rough waves and biting wind, everyone is squeezed inside like sardines. The island is only a short distance away, but it's obscured from view by a thick, eerie fog. It feels sort of fitting. After a 15-minute ride, the boat suddenly jolts as it makes contact with the dock on the other side. The weather isn't much better off the boat. It's gray and could probably be described as miserable.

But luckily, Elaine doesn't mind. I want this to have the gloom be fitting. The cemetery. Yeah, we can probably get a little cold. You're not allowed to just walk around Heart Island. Even if you were, it's so big and the graves are so many that you'd probably never find what you were looking for. So everyone is funneled onto a bus and dropped off at their pre-booked destination. The bus itself is small and crowded.

More nurses sit next to each other, sharing stories of their loved ones. Anna and Elaine get off the bus. Waiting for them is Melinda Hunt from the Heart Island Project. She's agreed to show them around. And there, just a few meters away from the bus, is a small wooden marker in the ground.

No tombstones, no names, no flowers. I'm not sure what we were expecting. After all this time, she really does feel like a sister to us. So finding her grave is such a significant moment. But here, she's just another body stacked three deep in a plot of 150. It's not the ending we imagined or hoped for. It's honestly just sad.

Standing at the graveside, all three women fall into silence. I am ashamed to admit that I closed the door on this woman in 2000. I didn't want to take on a new challenge. But having no closure, it kills you. It is an unbearable burden. When the girlfriends...

said to me, let's identify the torso. Let's identify who is she. Let's bring closure to another family. Let's open this door. I thought that was just something that I wanted to be a part of. After a short while, the bus reappears and a guard gestures for the ladies to get back on board. And then after all this lead up and barely a few words, it's time to go.

Everyone else here knows who they're visiting, but we still have no idea whose grave that was. We don't even know her name. Anna's thoughts return to disinterring the torso for DNA testing. There's something about having stood in front of her grave that makes the thought of exhumation no longer abstract, but very real.

And this reality, it's not a comfortable one because our lost sister has already been through so much, dug up and reburied over and over. And while our intentions are genuine and good, maybe she's finally at peace here on this island. But can we really walk away never knowing her story, never knowing her name?

Just as we think we're left with no option but to disturb her once again, we get another email. It's from the New York City Department of Social Services, which manages Heart Island. They found some updated ledgers. There's been a development.

They don't understand what it means. If you look at cause of death, they've put a new little entry in there which says disinterred for OCME on August 16th of 2013. It says our Jane Doe's torso was disinterred once again, but this time from Heart Island in 2013, 11 years ago. She wasn't even there when Anna and Elaine visited her grave.

There's nothing on the ledger to suggest that she was ever reburied on Heart Island. So where the fuck did she go?

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Text BVJOBS to 97211 to apply. After learning the bombshell news that our lost sister was disinterred from Heart Island in 2013, we're back to square one again. It says on the ledger that the torso was disinterred by our old friends, the office of the chief medical examiner. So we reach out once more and ask them why. But we do have a theory.

When our lost sister was exhumed from Gail Katz's grave in 1998, they kept her DNA profile on record. This is a common practice at the medical examiners, as it means Jane and John Doe's can still be identified years after their cases have gone cold. So if our girl, an unknown woman, was disinterred on Heart Island, a place where unidentified bodies are buried, you have to ask yourself, why?

You wouldn't just disinter a body unless you knew who it belonged to, or at the very least had a strong suspicion. This suggests to us that not only could she have been identified, but she could be part of a criminal investigation, which also means there could be a suspect in her murder. We've always been inclined not to center any perpetrator on this show, and we stand by that decision.

But maybe if we figure out who killed our lost sister, it might lead us to her identity. Which is why Anna finds herself in Brooklyn. Hi. Hi. You saw me looking lost. I was right outside. Yeah, I was just doing a million things real quick. Anna's meeting a man called Raul Montero, who, by the way, can put together a wonderful fruit plant.

I got a little spread, so whatever, make yourself at home. Bless you. Whatever you need. You're so sweet. Nice to meet you, though. It's nice to meet you. Raul is part citizen sleuth, part victim's advocate. He's best known online as Catch Lisk. Lisk stands for the Long Island Serial Killer. That name first appeared in the media in 2011 after the discovery of multiple sets of remains on Gilgo Beach in Long Island.

Tens of murders in New York and Long Island have been connected both officially and unofficially to this unknown killer. When we asked our listeners to write in with your tips on how we could identify our Jane Doe, the Long Island serial killer came up several times as a suspect worth considering. And that's why Anna has come to see Raul, someone who's obsessed with trying to identify Lisk, and as his name says, catch them.

Raul started collecting data of missing and murdered people and entering it onto a map. His investigation soon outgrew the Long Island serial killer, though. He has now logged practically every case in New York since 1914. He even has a marker for our lost sister. It's the only database we've ever seen her listed on.

I am breaking 7,000 locations that represent a person. It's just never going to be finished. For our lost sister and for the nearly 7,000 other people on this map, Raul has outlined what little is known about them. A dark red heart or a dark blue heart represent an adult male or female that their body has been found, remains have been found.

A dark red or a dark blue icon represent a male or a female adult that's gone missing. It's pretty impressive visually. If you want to check it out, we put a link in the episode description. There's also a light color blue and a light color red on both of those icons that represent minors.

Raul would be the first to admit that this has become more of an obsession, one that he finds it difficult to step away from. It's like more people on the map, more information. I can see it, I can match it, and I can feel some sort of closure. Well, I mean, maybe this is the perfect segue for me to show you some stuff that we have. Yeah. Anna pulls out a folder of all the information we have on our Jane Doe. So the torso washed up.

May 21st, 1989. We know from the autopsy report that they believe that the Doe had been murdered a few months prior. So that would be the time of death would have been about February 1989. Mm-hmm.

Anna starts listing out facts about our lost sister, like her predicted age and the condition of her body. But they zero in on where she ended up, on the shore of Staten Island, Front Street Pier No. 3. This gets Raul thinking about where she came from. You know, where's that water flow at that time?

If you follow the tidal path, it suggests that a body that washes up on that side of Staten Island could very likely have been dumped upstream towards Manhattan. The East River will actually open up into the Long Island Sound, which it's the tides that really predicate where a torso might go. There are two rivers in particular running through Manhattan that naturally funnel out into Staten Island, the East River and the Hudson.

So that's one lead. On to the other one, the Long Island serial killer. Though his potential killings go back decades, they only garnered attention in late 2010. Shannon Gilbert, an escort, was out on Long Island in Oak Beach to see a client. Within a matter of hours of being in that house, she ran from there screaming. She was never seen alive again.

During the ultimate search for Shannon Gilbert, the remains of 10 bodies were found. Most of the bodies found along that stretch of land near Gilco Beach in Long Island were female sex workers. Jane Does that find themselves tossed aside on some highway on Long Island. Like so many other victims, were ignored for so many years because you're a minority, because you're a drug addict, because you're a sex worker.

And in that mix, serial killers prowl. To this day, some of the victims found on the beach have never been identified. And until recently, there was no perpetrator identified either. For years, the police struggled to nail a key suspect. But that changed in 2022.

Going back over the evidence, the police zeroed in on a witness statement that described seeing one of the victims getting into a Chevrolet Avalanche on the night of her murder. This ultimately led the authorities to one local man, Rex Heurman. Heurman's phone records were examined, and he was found to have used burner phones to arrange meetings with some of the women whose bodies were found near Gilco Beach.

Finally, police found an old pizza box thrown away by Herman and tested the DNA left on the crust. It matched a hair found near one of the bodies. Herman is currently awaiting trial for four of the murders, although some suspect that he could be responsible for many more, dating all the way back to the 1980s. Do you think that there's a chance that our...

J. Doe could be a Liz victim. I think there's always a chance. You look at early Liz victims who were dismembered and scattered. We look at Rex's building permits from the 90s and 2000s, and he's on Staten Island. So the Long Island serial killer sounds like a significant lead, but he's not the only one.

There's another infamous serial killer that Anna wants to run by Raul as a possible suspect, one that she came across in one of her nighttime sleuthing sessions. Joel Rifkin, American serial killer who was sentenced to 203 years. My God, in prison for the murders of nine women. Oh my God.

When it comes to New York serial killers, Rifkin rings a few alarm bells for us. He admitted to killing and dismembering his first victim in March of 1989. And that's not the only coincidence. The head and the legs were found around the time of the murder, but nobody knew what happened to the torso. As Anna lays out the similarities between our Jane Doe's case and Rifkin's first victim, she can see Raoul's cogs turning.

Do you mind if I send a text? Yeah. I might get something right away. What? Who do you know? Raul won't give Anna a name, but he knows a detective who was involved in Joel Rifkin's case. He fires off a text, and not long after, a reply comes through. She did answer. The detective asked for more information, so they sent her everything we have on our Jane Doe, including the Heart Island ledger.

When Anna leaves, Raul promises to update her as soon as anything comes through, which thankfully doesn't take very long. Later that evening, there's a text from Raul. He forwarded Anna a message from the detective, responding to all the evidence we gave them and our suspicions about Joel Rifkin. They simply say, there is your answer. Coming up next on The Girlfriends, Our Lost Sister.

He said that he could only remember her name as Susie. To his horror, Susie suddenly popped up on the couch in a last-ditch effort to salvage her life. Dear Anne, I've been searching for you for over a year. Is this going to be the person that we're looking for? Is this the answer? The Girlfriends, Our Lost Sister is produced by Novel for iHeart Podcasts. For more from Novel, visit novel.audio.

The show is hosted by me, Carol Fisher, and our chief investigator is Mindy Shapiro. To find me on social media, search Carol A. Fisher. That's Carol with an E.

The season is written and produced by Anna Sinfield and Lee Meyer. Our assistant producer is Madeline Parr. The editor is Joe Wheeler. Max O'Brien is our executive producer. Our fact checker is Dania Suleiman. Production management from Cherie Houston and Charlotte Wolfe. Sound design, mixing, and scoring by Nicholas Alexander. Additional engineering by Daniel Kempson.

Music supervision by Anna Sinfield and Nicholas Alexander. Original music composed and performed by Louisa Gerstein and produced by Louisa Gerstein and Nicholas Alexander. The series artwork was designed by Christina Leemkuhl. Story development by Anna Sinfield. Willard Foxton is creative director of development.

Our executive producers at iHeart Podcast are Katrina Norvell and Nikki Etor. Special thanks to Allie Cantor, Carrie Lieberman, and Will Pearson at iHeart Podcast, as well as Carly Frankel and the whole team at WME. And a special shout out to Vince Hayward, who's my life partner in true crime, for taking on the role of girlfriend's confidant and lead tech support.

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