Valerie Mack (inset) went missing in September 2000. Some of her remains were found in Gilgo Beach, N.Y., in 2011. Those remains were finally identified in 2020. NEW YORK - A woman whose skeletal remains were found along a suburban New York beach highway, in an area where body parts of 10 other people had been strewn, was identified as a Philadelphia escort who went missing two decades ago, police said Thursday.
Suffolk County police said the woman previously known as "Jane Doe No. 6" was identified through genetic genealogy technology as Valerie Mack, who also went by Melissa Taylor and was last seen in 2000 near Atlantic City, New Jersey.