Map: Amber Lynn Costello's house
1112 America Avenue, West Babylon, NY 11704
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The house where Amber Lynn Costello was last seen
Crime Location in West Babylon, New York
In September 2010, Amber Lynn Costello left this house in West Babylon and was never seen again.
Four months later, her remains were discovered at the Long Island serial killer's dumpsite on Gilgo Beach.
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Costello's remains were found near Gilgo Beach
In December 2010, Amber Costello's remains were found inside the thicket at this section of Ocean Parkway.
By that stage, she had been missing for about three months.
She had been bound with three pieces of white or clear duct tape and wrapped in duck-blind camouflage burlap.
One of these pieces of tape contained a single female hair, which was later determined to belong to the same mitochondrial haplogroup as Rex Heuermann's wife, Asa Ellerup.
The authorities believe that the tape may have picked up the hair from inside Heuermann's residence, as cell phone data showed that Ellerup was in New Jersey at the time of the murder.
Costello was not reported missing because her sister, Kimberly Overstreet, presumed that she was off getting high somewhere.
Overstreet had previously worked in the industry herself. Consequently, she was also aware that the police were reluctant to file missing person reports about sex workers.
Sadly, she was correct.
Relatives of some of the other victims would later recall that they received pushback when they attempted to report their loved ones missing, as sex workers are usually transient in nature.
It wasn't until all of their remains turned up in the same spot on Gilgo Beach that the authorities realized they had a serial killer case on their hands.
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