Amber Lynn Costello
Amber Lynn Costello, 27, was last seen in North Babylon, N.Y., on September 2, 2010. No one even reported her missing before she was found on Gilgo Beach. Her sister, Kimberly Overstreet, 33, of Lindenhurst, N.Y., had helped Costello move into rehab just a year before. Overstreet has said that Costello had been working as a prostitute in St. Petersburg, Fla. She told reporters that she hopes her sister's sad tale will serve as a warning to other women looking for what they think will be easy money in the sex trade.
Amber Lynn Costello Like most of the other identified victims, Costello was petite, just 4'10 and 100 pounds. She grew up near Wilmington, N.C., and may have started into prostitution there. Around 2006 she moved to Pinellas County, Fla. Even during her darkest days there, she was active in her local church, her friends from Dunedin's Lion of Judah Foursquare Church say. Some of them knew that she had been an escort, but they remember her as a kind and loving friend. She sang in the choir, and she helped in the nursery at another church she attended, Clearwater's First Assembly of God. She was trying to find a way out of sex work, and she took a job waiting tables at a diner. But Costello struggled: When police arrested her on suspicion of shoplifting toothpaste and other items from a Publix supermarket in 2009, she told cops she was a librarian.
Zwischen Dezember 2007 und März 2010 heiratete er Donald Costello. Die Richtung, die sie in High Point, Florida, verwendeten, fällt mit einer Adresse zusammen, die in den Referenzen von privaten begleitenden Partnern aufgeführt ist. Zuvor war Michael Wilhelm von Kannapolis in North Carolina einige Jahre mit ihr verheiratet. Sie hatten Wilmington getroffen, aber er sagt, er habe ihn wegen seines Gebrauchs von Heroin verlassen.
Amber Lynn Costello was trying to kick a drug habit, and she kept trying to leave a life of prostitution. She didn't do it in time.
