Even though it has been determined that a business surveillance video tape shows that the third body found floating in the Laguna off South Padre Island shows the victim falling off a bridge and into the water, the fact that it is the third dead person found in the vicinity is fueling speculation that the first two may have been the act of a serial killer working on the isolated stretches of beach north of the island.
The tape shows that shows that Michael Lonnie McPeak. 65, of Port Isabel fell from a bridge just past the Dairy Queen, said Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio. Lucio hastened to say that the discoveries were not linked.
“No, no we don’t think they are related at all,” Lucio said Friday.
Last Wednesday, the body of a woman was found about 6 to 9 miles north of Beach Access No. 6.
Lucio said the woman’s body had been buried in the sand.The cause of death has not been determined, he said.“We still don’t know,” he said, adding that one of his investigators had attended the autopsy Thursday.
Then, on Sept. 29, the Valley Morning Star reported that the body of 33-year-old Jeremy Tyrone Eyster of Irving also was found north of Beach Access 6. Lucio told the newspaper that at the time he was found blood and sand were on the victim’s face. A tattoo of a spider was discovered on the man’s right rear shoulder.
The sheriff said at the time that Eyster was identified through fingerprint technology provided through the assistance of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The first two bodies were found north of Beach Access 6, which is in the northernmost part of the island. It is a usually isolated part of the island, but even then, “it’s very rare to find bodies, maybe a drowning, but not this,” Cameron County Parks Director Javier Mendez told the VMS.
Lucio said the sheriff's department was treating the first two victims found as homicide victims, but again would not comment on the possibility the perpetrator might have been the same person.
“We are treating all three as homicides until a final determination is made,” he said.
A former Parks employee said that it was impossible to tell whether anyone could use the furthest reaches of the South Padre Island National Seashore as a dumping ground and said that transients come and go, sometimes even leaving their belongings behind.
"They're here one day and then they're gone before you know it," he said. "A few years ago we were cleaning up and found a deserted campsite with all the person's belonging still there. It's hard to know what happened to them."
If there is a serial killer working the island, it will be hard to detect any other remains because of the continually shifting sands and tides that often cover and wash over clandestine graves dug in the farthest reaches of the island, he said.
"Until we have a big storm and we go out there and see something, we'll never know if there is a predator working the island," he said.
5 comments:
This has been happening for some time! Where has Gus and Sheriff been? La La Land
here in brownsville have a serial shooter on the loose and is protected by the police and the city manager.willy
October 16, 2012 10:56 PM
Really? well publish the name of that serial shooter in this blog!!! we want to know who the shooter is... Dont be afraid of anything dear.
You mean to tell me that you actually understood what the sheriff said???? That guy has his own language and can't make sense of anything he says with his rumbling and broken Eng-gish! He and Lupe Trevino from Hidalgo don;t compare when it comes to giving comments to the press. Lucio gives out noises and that is all you can understand.
Why don't they want to release the video of the Cummings killing? Because the video will show that there was no one else standing behind the young man who was shot to death. All of a sudden they come up with that excuse to give the dirty cops probable cause for firing at the young man. Why did they not shoot at his legs?
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