MURDER INC EXCLUSIVE: A man’s 2 yr old daughter and her mother disappear from Amityville, NY in 1993. Two decades later, the same man’s wife goes missing. Do their disappearances hold the key to the Long Island Serial Killer?







Peaches

On June 28, 1997 Shel Basch made the yearly family outing to Hempstead Lake State Park for the NY Department of Environmental Conservation free fishing clinic. The fish weren’t biting and Shel’s 10 yr old daughter Kasey was getting bored so they decided to go for a nice scenic walk in the park. Walking along, Shel smelled a strong odor coming from something off the path. According to Basch, it looked like a garbage can cut in half with a plastic bag draped over it. There were flies swarming everywhere and Basch nudged it to see how heavy it was. He hoped it was a dead animal and went to go find a DEC worker at the event to let them know about his strange discovery. He watched as the DEC worker opened the bag slightly to reveal the left side of a human torso.

The torso was eventually determined to be that of a woman, age 16-30, brown skin, with “an abdominal scar, possibly from a caesarean section. A tattoo of a peach in the shape of a heart with a bite taken out of it and two drips falling from its core was located on her left breast.” Her head, arms and legs had been removed below the knee. Her torso was found in a green Rubbermaid container with a floral pillow sham and maroon towel.













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Body Parts Found in State Park





Ocean Parkway

On April 3, 2011 police resumed the search for more remains on Ocean Parkway after the bodies of 4 murdered women had been discovered in December 2010. On April 4, 2011 the skeletal remains of a child was found in the brush along the highway. She was a female, 1-5 yr old, wrapped in a blanket. With the child were two gold hoop earrings and a gold necklace. Only 250 ft away police had found body parts that belonged to a Jane Doe whose torso was found in Manorville in 2000. But it was the body parts found 8 miles west on April 11, 2011 that would reveal a shocking connection. Police announced these were the extremities of a new dismemberment victim, and she was likely the mother of the child.

A female, non-Caucasian toddler thought to be 16 to 32 months old, who was also found April 4, is a blood relative of another woman found 7 miles away in Nassau County on April 11 near Jones Beach. “It is likely that these two individuals are mother and child,” Dormer said. Police released images of hoop earrings and a rope necklace worn by the toddler, as well as two bracelets found with her adult relative. The bracelets are both gold in color, and have a pattern of Xs embedded with stones that resemble diamonds. The woman and child are believed to have been dead one to five years before their discovery.



All in all, police claimed to have found the remains of a child, the skull, hands and right foot of Jane Doe from Manorville in 2000, the skull, hands and forearm of Jessica Taylor, the skull of Jane Doe 1996 whose legs had been found on Fire Island, the body of a male in a dress, the bodies of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Amber Costello, Shannan Gilbert and a Jane Doe who police said was the unidentified child’s mother. Only the mother’s extremities were found, along with two gold bracelets that were similar to the earrings and necklace found with her child. While police circulated images of the jewelry and asked the public for help in identifying the victims, they claimed the mother was most likely a sex worker who had brought her child along on a date and the two had met their grisly fate at the hands of a john, the Long Island Serial Killer.

But police kept a dark secret about the mother and her baby for 5 years. After prodding from filmmakers Josh Zeman and Rachel Mills in 2016, the Suffolk County Police Department was forced to admit that the mother, was actually Peaches. The remains found in 2011 actually belonged to the same woman as the torso found in Hempstead Lake State Park in 1997, the woman with the peach tattoo.

The Suffolk County Police Department lied when they went to the public in an apparent plea for help to identify the mother and her child. But they didn’t reveal that the woman had been killed and found in 1997 or that she had an extremely unique and recognizable tattoo. Knowing the mother was killed in ’97, had a peach tattoo and disappeared with her child was the necessary information the public needed to identify the mother and her child. It’s clear the police did not want the public to know who Peaches or her child are. But if SCPD doesn’t want us to know who Peaches is, doesn’t that mean that they do know?





A photo of Dominique is posted with this case summary. Her date of birth is June 24, 1964, making her 29 years old at the time of Tiffany’s abduction. She’s described as African-American, 5’3 to 5’4 and 130 to 140 pounds, with black hair and black eyes. Dominique may use the aliases Catherine Dominique, Marie Dominigue, Catherine Sanon, Catherine Westford and/or Marie Westford. She speaks English and Haitian Creole. She has previously worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA).

Dominique and Tiffany’s whereabouts are unknown. They may have left the country, or they may be living in a Haitian-American community within the United States. Tiffany’s case is unsolved.





The Missing Wife

Lisa Westford



On January 8 2014 Lisa Westford disappeared from Shirley, NY. She is married to Peter Westford, the same man who reported his daughter Tiffany missing in 1992. They have four children together. Their first daughter was born on March 5, 1991, 11 days before Marie Catherine Dominique gave birth to Tiffany Westford.

Missing Vulnerable Adult

Missing From: SHIRLEY , New York