New Image Hopes to ID Last, Known Victim of Serial Killer Robert Shulman

Medford Jane Doe was dismembered and found in a blue garbage can in 1994.

A facial reconstruction image of Medford Jane Doe, the last known victim of 1990's serial killer Robert Shulman, was released by the Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney this week.

The updated sketch of a second, unidentified murder victim--who was killed by her landlord in 1983-- was also made public, a woman known as Bellport Jane Doe.

Updated rendering of Bellport Jane Doe, killed in 1983.

The two images have been added to nine other profiles of John and Jane Does, some of them possibly linked to the Long Island Serial Killer, on a special website the District Attorney established for cold case homicides last year - Suffolk County DA Cold Case Website.

"We are asking the public to take a moment to read the information available and to look at these new renderings of the victims," D.A. Tierney said in a statement. "No tip is too small."

The dismembered remains of Medford Jane Doe were discovered inside a blue, Rubbermaid garbage can on December 7, 1994. They were found on the side of a road in Medford, Long Island. The victim was a white female, between 20 and 30 years old, about five feet one inch tall, weighing about 135 pounds.

Medford Jane Doe had a red, heart-shaped tattoo on her upper left shoulder that had a white banner with the name ADRIAN on it.

A red heart with name ‘Adrian’ tattooed on upper left shoulder of Medford Jane Doe.

Robert Shulman, a postal worker from Hicksville, Long Island, was arrested in 1996 for five murders committed between 1991 and 1995. Police said he targeted sex workers in Queens and brought them back to his Nassau County apartment, where he beat, killed and dismembered them.

Postal worker Robert Shulman was convicted of killing multiple women 1991-1995.

Shulman was convicted in the murders and sentenced to death (on the books in New York at the time), but he was resentenced to life in prison without parole. He died behind bars on April 13, 2006.

In late 2021, forensic investigators used genetic genealogy to identify a Shulman murder victim known for nearly thirty years as "Yonkers Jane Doe."

Her name was Meresa Hammonds, a young mom whose remains were discovered in a Yonkers, New York dumpster in 1992. I met Hammonds' son when he found her gravesite at Frederick Douglass Memorial Park on Staten Island in early 2022, an African-American burial ground. Hammonds was Caucasian; her grave was only marked with a stick at the time.

Ray Tierney's Cold Case Task Force has now turned to genetic genealogy experts to get a better sense of who Medford Jane Doe was, also a Shulman victim. Their work so far has concluded Medford Jane Doe was a Caucasian woman with ancestry that's 75 percent attributable to the western European counties of England, Scotland and Wales.

One of the new depictions of Medford Jane Doe relied on a clay reconstruction that was built on her skull to create a 3-dimensional model of her face and head. There is also an updated sketch.

Bellport Jane Doe was killed by her landlord, Arthur Kinlaw, in 1983 at her home on Michigan Avenue in Bellport, Long Island. She was known to neighbors as Marie or Maria. She was a woman of color, either Black or Hispanic. She weighed about 300 pounds and needed a walker to move around. Investigators learned that she had previously suffered a fractured femur (thigh bone).

Kinlaw, now 72, is serving a 20 year to life sentence for two murders.

Arthur Kinlaw, Bellport Jane Doe’s landlord, is doing 20 years to life in Wende Correctional Facility.

In 2022, one of his victims--known for forty years as "Princess Doe"--was identified as 17 year old Dawn Olanick, who was from West Babylon, Long Island. DNA from Olanick's tooth sample, entered into a genetic genealogy site, led to her brother.

Dawn Olanick, 17, killed by Arthur Kinlaw, was unidentified for 40 years.

On July 15, 1982, the teen victim's battered body had been discovered by a gravedigger at Cedar Ridge Cemetery in Blairstown Township, New Jersey.

Her face had been beaten beyond recognition. Community residents and police upset by what happened called the victim "Princess Doe."

In November 2020, investigators re-exhumed the teen's body to extract DNA that eventually led to her identification. Police later learned that Dawn Olanick left her West Babylon home in the summer of 1982 and somehow linked up with Arthur Kinlaw. He reportedly killed Olanick when she refused to be a sex worker.

Kinlaw remains incarcerated at Wende Correctional Facility in New York.

Ray Tierney's Cold Case Task Force is hoping new efforts to identify Bellport Jane Doe, along with Shulman victim Medford Jane Doe, will yield important information.