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.
Mellem december 2007 og marts 2010 blev hun gift med Donald Costello. Den adresse, de brugte i High Point, Fla., Matcher en adresse, der er anført i private Playmates Escort -henvisninger. Tidligere havde Michael Wilhelm fra Kannapolis, N.C., været gift med hende i et par år. De var mødt i Wilmington, men han siger, at han havde forladt hende på grund af hendes heroinbrug.
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.
