Chief: Headless Body Most Likely Not From Gilgo

The that washed ashore in Amagansett on Sunday most likely didn't come from Gilgo Beach, where the discovery of human remains has sparked the hunt for a serial killer.

On Monday afternoon, Ed Ecker said that given the tides it would actually be more plausible for a body to go into the water at , where this body was found, and end up at Gilgo Beach, located in Copaigue.

"Once they hear no head, everybody is thinking Gilgo Beach," he said of Long Island's biggest unsolved mystery.

However, Ecker, who has investigated a number of other bodies that have washed up in town over his 30 year career, and is a former Navy man, thinks it's highly unlikely. "

Just from my experience, it would be unusual for a body to go up the South Shore, around the and end up on the north side." 

Plus, Ecker said he doesn't think the body was dismembered like those found along the beach, almost 100 miles west. "My feeling is we're going to find the head was not severed, just missing from decomposition," he said.  

Police divers had not located the skull as of Monday morning.

The fact that the body washed up on Big Albert's signals to Ecker that it went into the water any place between the area around Gardiner's Bay and Block Island or from any boat in between.

"We just don't have anybody reported missing," he said of his jurisdiction, though he said he has seen instances where people are not reported missing until after a body is found and it makes people think about someone they haven't heard from in some time. 

Detectives are working with the Suffolk County police to identify any missing persons outside of the area.

Bodies from areas north, such as Conneticut or Rhode Island, do wash up on the north side of East Hampton's shores from time to time, Ecker said. 

One odd case, sticks out, though.

Just two days shy of a year ago, a decomposing body washed onto the ocean beach off Marine Boulevard in Amagansett. The partially clothed man turned out to be a kayaker who drowned off of Conneticut. His life-vest floated ashore at the same location about a half-hour later.

"The only way he was getting around the point and come up in those tides was the flotation device," Ecker said, adding that the body never sank, like most do and then rise up. Ecker said the vest probably came off just before the body was found. 

The kayak floated ashore in Southold days earlier, a location that makes perfect sense given the tides. 

Ecker expects preliminary results from the autopsy of the recently found body on Tuesday. "We ought to be able to give a gender, a range of age, size . . . and whether there was any trauma, like a bullet to the bones," he said.