She may very well be No. 12.
There must be a extra thorough probe into the 2013 suicide of Queens lady Natasha Jugo, argued onetime prosecutor Raymond Zuppa, who believes she was murdered by the Lengthy Island Serial Killer.
“Given the geographical location, as well as current and historical events … I believe the investigation into this matter should be reopened and competently investigated,” Zuppa acknowledged in a petition filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Courtroom that names the NYPD and Commissioner Jessica Tisch as defendants. “The area of the occurrence is infamous.”
Zuppa advised The Put up Friday he’d prefer to see cops take a recent take a look at the case, significantly within the wake of accused Gilgo Seashore killer Rex Heuermann‘s 2023 arrest.
“This is Gilgo,” Zuppa mentioned, stopping simply wanting saying Jugo was a sufferer of the serial killer.
“I wouldn’t rule it out, it makes more sense,” the “semi-retired” prosecutor added. “But they don’t want this to be a murder. It was ruled a suicide on May 2, 2013 — without a body.”
Jugo, 31, a recognized schizophrenic, was final seen leaving her Bayside, Queens, residence the afternoon of March 16, 2013; she’d been despatched to a close-by pharmacy to select up a prescription for her sickly father.
The subsequent day, a lady strolling alongside Tobay Seashore in Massapequa discovered Jugo’s purse and a few clothes, and referred to as 911.
The NYPD and police from Suffolk and Nassau counties responded and situated Jugo’s 2009 Prius parked alongside the shoulder on Ocean Parkway. In addition they mentioned footprints main from the automotive to the surf have been discovered on the scene.
Gilgo Seashore is situated in Suffolk County, however not removed from the county line.
Her physique was ultimately found on June 24, 2013, little greater than three miles away washed ashore on Gilgo Seashore.
Zuppa, who is predicated in Lengthy Island, doesn’t imagine Jugo drove half-hour from her residence to commit suicide by strolling into the Atlantic, and as a substitute thinks there’s a hyperlink between her demise and Heuermann‘s alleged victims.
Heuermann, 61, has been charged with the murders of seven of the 11 individuals investigators discovered alongside Ocean Parkway close to Gilgo Seashore in Suffolk County between December 2010 and April 2011. Investigators have mentioned DNA proof straight hyperlinks the architect to the serial killings.
“Walking into the Gilgo Surf up to her head and then inhaling the ocean water would have been an excruciatingly painful way for Ms. Jugo to commit suicide,” reads the petition, which argued footprints couldn’t have been discovered on the seashore because of the shifting tides.
“Ms. Jugo would have entered the water at low tide,” Zuppa reasoned in his petition. “The footprints would
have been washed away. And the clothing allegedly discarded at the water’s edge when Ms. Jugo
entered the water would have been out in the Atlantic.”
Zuppa’s petition additionally famous Jugo’s physique “showed no signs of trauma,” making it simply identifiable to the cops at Gilgo — they notified her household inside hours.
“The interactions between currents, waves, and the seabed creates a large amount of visible trauma to a human body when the body is on the seabed for a prolonged period,” he wrote. “Furthermore, sea creatures such as fish and crabs feed on human bodies, turning said bodies into bones.”
Zuppa had been attempting since 2023 to acquire the case information from three completely different companies. What he did obtain confirmed discrepancies in what Jugo was discovered carrying between the Nassau County investigator’s account — the place she was clad in denims, a bra and shirt over her head — and the one written by Suffolk County detectives, who discovered her with a bra solely.
He additionally claimed {a partially} redacted photograph from the crime scene confirmed the presence of a rope “around either the decedent’s legs, waist, or neck.”
Of the seven Gilgo victims Heuermann’s been charged with killing, 4 have been found sure with belts or tape.
“She floated ashore right across the street from where the Gilgo Four were found,” Zuppa added. “Two years later, is this Rex? Did he grab her and hold her for a long period of time?”
Heuermann has entered not responsible pleas to the seven murders he’s alleged to have dedicated.
