Post an initial 250 minimum word count to the discussion board concerning the following two questions.
Question 1. Using the chapter material and the preceding case, how do you think information for a search warrant could be relevant or important to the case?
Question 2. Given the case, what are your thoughts on the use of warrantless searches, based on the chapter material?
Submission Requirments: FAILING TO FOLLOW THESE REQUIREMENTS WILL RESULT IN AN INCOMPLETE GRADE
250 Minimum Word Count – Initial Post
A minimum of 2 scholarly sources are required 1 must be the textbook. References and In-Text Citations must be included in the assignment submissions.
The Search for the Craigslist Ripper
First appearing in 2007, the Long Island Serial Killer (also referred to by media sources as the “Gilgo Killer” and the
“Craigslist Ripper”) is an unknown serial killer who is thought to have murdered at least four prostitutes and dumped their bod-les along the Ocean Parkway, near the remote beach towns of Gilgo Beach and Oak Beach in Suffolk County and the area of Jones Beach State Park in Nassau County. As of April 10, 2011, eight bodies had been dumped just feet from Ocean Parkway, a highway leading to the popular Jones Beach State Park. In December 2010, investigators, while following the disappearance of a New Jersey woman who was seen working as a Craigslist escort, happened upon the corpses of four women. The women were identified as missing prostitutes who had booked clients over the Internet. Four additional bodies were found when officers returned to the area in late March 2011. All eight bodies were located within an eight-mile radius on the north side of the Parkway. Investigators determined that some of the victims had been dead for a long time and that the four women found in December 2010 were probably killed somewhere else and dumped by the beach highway. Investigators approached the investigation slowly and methodically, looking at the evidence to see what might be similar or dissimilar about the vic-tims. In May 2011, the investigation continued as the search for more bodies moved to Nassau County, where police cadaver dogs and additional mounted police units joined the search.
