Overview

• Police were called around 4 a.m. Tuesday to a vessel docked off Star Island Road at the Montauk Yacht Club where they discovered a woman’s body
• Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives have assumed control of the investigation under standard death inquiry protocols
• Officials have not yet identified the victim or determined how long she had been aboard the boat
• The county medical examiner is performing an autopsy to ascertain the woman’s cause and manner of death
• Violent crime is exceptionally rare in Montauk, and the discovery has shaken the normally quiet resort community