1 year later, 4 Atlantic City prostitute deaths remain unsolved

On Nov. 20. 2006, the bodies of four prostitutes were found face-down in a drainage ditch behind a string of seedy motels on the Black Horse Pike, just outside the Atlantic City limits. One had been strangled with a rope or cord, and another was asphyxiated, although the medical examiner's office could not say exactly how. The cause of death for the other two could not be pinpointed because they had been in the water too long. All four cases are being investigated as homicides.

WHAT HAPPENED SINCE: Authorities have refused to speculate on whether they believe a serial killer is to blame, even though the bodies were placed in the water at different times, based on the rate of decomposition. Three of the four were blonde, and all abused drugs and alcohol. A task force has interviewed several people, but prosecutors have never publicly identified anyone as a suspect or "person of interest." A Salem County handyman who says they accused him of killing the women was jailed in April on an unrelated charge of secretly videotaping his ex-girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter nude. Terry Oleson was allowed to go free last month after pleading guilty to invasion of privacy and will be sentenced in two weeks. He gave investigators DNA samples in June; they still won't say what the test results show, but his lawyer says if police had anything on Oleson, he's still be behind bars.

WHO ELSE?: Atlantic County authorities won't say who they have questioned in the case, but Oleson's lawyer says another man, already in jail, confessed to the killings. The man says he turned over recordings of the alleged confession to prosecutors, but they won't say if they find them credible or not.

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