Report: DNA to Determine Whether Gilgo Beach Body is of Missing SBU Student

Police are investigating whether one of 10 bodies found on Gilgo Beach is the remains of Jimmy Tsui, a Stony Brook University student who disappeared nearly 13 years ago.

It has been determined that the eighth body – or “John Doe #8” – is that of an Asian man, likely in his late teens or early 20s at the time of his death. Tsui, whose given name is Yim Yeung Tsui, would have fit that profile at the time he went missing. Investigators now are determining whether the remains’ DNA matches that of his sister, who provided her DNA two years ago to aid the search for her brother.

Tsui was last seen August 26, 1998, leaving his home in New Hyde Park. According to New York State's Missing & Exploited Children Clearinghouse, Tsui was 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighed 140 pounds at the time of his disappearance.

According to Suffolk County Police, the eighth body was discovered along Ocean Parkway on April 4. It was found a quarter-mile east of where four bodies, all of which have been identified as prostitutes, were discovered. Those deaths are believed to be related.