LI HOOKER-KILLER EYED IN GILGO SERIAL SLAYS

A carpenter convicted of killing two prostitutes in the 1990s may be responsible for at least one of the 10 unsolved murders of people in the Gilgo Beach area on Long Island, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

Suffolk County Assistant District Attorney Robert Biancavilla made the revelation after the sentencing of John Bittrolff, 51, of Manorville, who received consecutive 25-years-to-life sentences. Bittrolff (inset), who was convicted in May, denied killing the women and intends to appeal.

Police on Long Island are still investigating the unsolved murders of 10 victims of an apparent serial killer or killers. The bodies were found within a couple of miles of one another in thickets along Ocean Parkway, and several of the victims have been identified as prostitutes. Until Tuesday, no suspects had been identified in any of the deaths.

But Biancavilla said after the sentencing that remains of some victims found along Gilgo Beach “may be attributed to the handiwork of Mr. Bittrolff.” He said the investigation was ongoing.

Bittrolff ’s attorney declined to address the allegations, Newsday reported.

The nude bodies of 31year-old Rita Tangredi and 20-year-old Colleen McNamee were found nine miles apart in late 1993 and early 1994.

Their murders remained unsolved for two decades until Bittrolff ’s 2014 arrest after homicide detectives linked evidence found on the women’s remains to his DNA. The women’s bodies were found about 35 miles from the Gilgo Beach site.

In December 2010, police came upon what would become, by spring of the following year, 10 sets of human remains.

The remains of another woman were found in the area about a year later.