On Tuesday, Feb. 3, Suffolk County district attorney Ray Tierney’s Cold Case Task Force honored National Missing Persons Day by seeking public assistance in identifying unidentified remains, one a possible victim of Long Island serial killer Robert Shulman, and the other a victim of Arthur Kinlaw.

“Suffolk County district attorney Raymond A. Tierney announced that in recognition of National Missing Persons Day, the District Attorney’s Office is renewing its call for the public’s assistance in helping identify the remains of multiple unidentified victims whose cases remain open and under active investigation. Additionally, the District Attorney’s Office is providing the public with updated information and renderings of the victims in two cold cases—Medford Jane Doe and Bellport Jane Doe—in the hopes that it will assist in uncovering the victims’ identities,” said the announcement.

“We are asking the public to take a moment to read the information available and to look at these new renderings of the victims. We believe someone must know something,” said Tierney. “No tip is too small. Even a minor detail could help bring answers to families who have been waiting for far too long.”

As part of this effort, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office is releasing new details in the two longstanding cases of Medford Jane Doe and Bellport Jane Doe. Investigators have developed additional information that may help generate new leads and are urging members of the public to review the updated case details:

•Medford Jane Doewas murdered by Shulman and discovered dismembered on the morning of Dec. 7, 1994, inside a blue Rubbermaid garbage can on the side of the road in Medford. She was a white female, between 20 to 30 years old, approximately 5 feet, 1 inches tall, and weighed approximately 135 pounds. She had a tattoo on her upper left shoulder that included the name “Adrian” (picture attached). Recent genetic genealogy work revealed that the victim is Caucasian with Western European ancestry-at least 75 percent attributable to England, Scotland, and Wales. In addition to the genetic makeup of the victim, the Cold Case Task Force is releasing two depictions of how the victim likely appeared prior to her death: a clay reconstruction, which is a three-dimensional model built on the skull using clay, and an updated composite sketch.

Robert Yale Shulman was born in 1954 in upstate New York and died in prison in Albany in 2006 while serving life imprisonment, a commuted sentence from his original death penalty. The serial killer murdered at least five young women in Hicksville from 1991 to 1995.

Shulman’s father died in 1967 and the death was said to have a profound effect on him as he subsequently began using drugs and elected to have mental health intervention.

He moved to Long Island in 1972 to attend Hofstra University, where he dropped out after two years and began working for the United States Postal Service.

Between August 1991 and December 1995, Shulman murdered at least five sex workers by beating them to death with barbells, a hammer, or a baseball bag. Typically, he solicited sex workers in Hollis, Queens, and brought them back to his apartment in Hicksville, where they would smoke crack-cocaine and have intercourse. After pummeling his victims, he would dismember the bodies in the bathroom and place the parts in sealed in plastic garbage bags that were dumped in nearby cities.

One victim, Meresa Hammonds, was initially “Yonkers Jane Doe” and was identified in December 2021 as the 31-year-old who lived in New Jersey, where she had worked as a fashion model with her sister. The body was found on June 27, 1992, in a dumpster in Yonkers.

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