The badly decomposed body that washed up on a beach in Amagansett this weekend is a man who so far remains unidentified.
East Hampton Town Police Chief Ed Ecker said Tuesday medical examiners determined the victim was between 20 and 30 and small in stature. His race was unknown.
The headless body was found Sunday by a man walking his dogs on a beach on the bay side of the hamlet in the Town of East Hampton.
Amagansett is nearly 100 miles east of Ocean Parkway where 10 sets of human remains have been found since December, at least four of whom are believed to be victims of a serial killer.
Ecker said Suffolk County police Homicide Squad detectives have been contacted about Sunday’s discovery.
There is no evidence it is linked to the others.
In that case, five women who worked as prostitutes have been identified. Authorities are trying to identify the remains of one woman, one man, one toddler and two partial skeletons.
Investigators are awaiting autopsy results to determine the cause of death and other details on the body found on the South Fork.
Ecker said the body may have been in the water since the winter, or longer
-With Associated Press.
