Suffolk County cops said today they are exploring new information suggesting a link between Long Island’s Jack the Ripper and the murder of four hookers in Atlantic City in 2006.
“Our homicide detectives are in touch with the police investigating the Atlantic City murders,” a Suffolk police spokesman said.
The Post reported today that Kim Raffo, one of the victims of a suspected Atlantic City serial killer, spent five weeks on Long Island with husband Hugh Auslander shortly before she vanished.
Madelaine Vitale, a spokeswoman for the county prosecutor in New Jersey’s Atlantic County, said there have been no developments in the unsolved hooker homicides near Atlantic City since the bodies began appearing on Long Island last year.
She confirmed that investigators in Atlantic County remain in contact with their counterparts in Suffolk, where the remains of eight bodies have been found since December 2010, including four in the past eight days.
Suffolk cops, meanwhile, continued scouring the remote Gilgo and Oak beaches today, but have made no new discoveries.
And Nassau cops said yesterday they’ll widen the search for victims, combing the remote stretch of waterfront to the west of where eight sets of human remains have already been found.
“Early next week we’re going to be searching on our side in the same area,” a Nassau County police spokesman told The Post.
Cops have not identified the latest victims, one found last week and three on Monday, except to say that missing craigslist call girl Shannan Gilbert, 24, of New Jersey was not among them.