Crime & Safety
Skull Found in Gardiner's Bay
Dive team's discovery believed to be the head of a body that washed ashore in May.
A human skull was recovered in Gardiner's Bay in Amagansett on Friday.
Chief Ed Ecker said the 's Dive Team was conducting an underwater search in connection with the discovery of a that washed ashore on on May 24. The dive team was doing a normal training dive at the same time.
The skull was found in about 8 to 10 feet of water 40 yards from shore to the west of Big Albert's.
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"The skull was found in close proximity to the location where the remains were recovered," according to Detective Sgt. Robert Gurney, who put out a statement on Friday afternoon.
The skull has been forwarded to the Suffolk County Medical Examiner's office.
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The headless body has still not been identified. Police have said it is a man of small stature in his 20s or 30s. The body .
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