{"id":83208,"date":"2023-11-20T21:03:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T21:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/ross-mcdonnell-new-york-police-find-dismembered-body-on-beach-believed-to-be-irish-filmmaker-us-news\/"},"modified":"2023-11-20T21:03:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T21:03:22","slug":"ross-mcdonnell-new-york-police-find-dismembered-body-on-beach-believed-to-be-irish-filmmaker-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/ross-mcdonnell-new-york-police-find-dismembered-body-on-beach-believed-to-be-irish-filmmaker-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross McDonnell: New York Police find dismembered body on beach believed to be Irish filmmaker | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2>Ross McDonnell: New York Police find dismembered body on beach believed to be Irish filmmaker | US News<\/h2>\n<p>Ross McDonnell: New York Police find dismembered body on beach believed to be Irish filmmaker | US News<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/23\/11\/70x70\/skynews-new-york-ireland-nypd_6367016.jpg?20231120201310\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>The dismembered body of an Emmy-winning filmmaker who disappeared this month was found at a New York beach.<\/p>\n<p>While it has not been officially identified, law enforcement sources told <strong>NBC News<\/strong> that the remains appear to be Ross McDonnell&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old <strong>Irish<\/strong><strong> <\/strong>filmmaker was last seen on 4 November leaving his apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on a bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>His bike was later found locked at Fort Tilden Beach in Queens, located on the Rockaway Peninsula next to Breezy Point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New York <\/strong>Police officers responded to a call on Friday, just before 12.30pm, over reports of a human torso with legs found lying in the sand.<\/p>\n<p>No foul play is suspected and there is no indication McDonnell took his own life, the sources told NBC.<\/p>\n<p>They added that it is possible McDonnell went for a swim, somehow got caught in the current and drowned.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing. Authorities are working with the Irish consulate and awaiting DNA testing results.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more from Sky News:<br \/>Ashling Murphy&#8217;s murderer &#8216;should never see the light of day again&#8217;<\/strong><br \/><strong>David Cameron enters House of Lords<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-instagram\" data-component-name=\"sdc-article-instagram\" data-consent=\"pending\" data-vendor-name=\"instagram\">\n<section aria-label=\"Consent required\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock\" data-component-name=\"ui-consent-roadblock\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1\/1\">\n<div class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body\">\n        <span class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__title\">Instagram<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__description\" data-show-on-fallback=\"false\"><br \/>\n                This content is provided by <span class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__vendor-title\">Instagram<\/span>, which may be using cookies and other technologies.<br \/>\n                To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies.<br \/>\n                You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enable <span class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__vendor-title\">Instagram<\/span> cookies or to allow those cookies just once.<br \/>\n                You can change your settings at any time via the Privacy Options.<br \/>\n            <\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__description\" data-show-on-fallback=\"true\"><br \/>\n                Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to <span class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__vendor-title\">Instagram<\/span> cookies.<br \/>\n                To view this content you can use the button below to allow <span class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__vendor-title\">Instagram<\/span> cookies for this session only.<br \/>\n            <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link-group\">\n                Enable Cookies<br \/>\n                Allow Cookies Once\n            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to the Irish Times, McDonnell missed an appointment on the day he is believed to have been last seen.<\/p>\n<p>After failing to turn up for work the following day, friends went to his apartment and broke down the door.<\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker was nominated for his first Emmy for an Outstanding Investigative Documentary with Eli\u00e1n, about &#8220;a five-year-old Cuban boy plucked from the Florida coast in 1999&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He also won Emmys for cinematography for his work on the Showtime series The Trade in 2021, which covered the US&#8217; opioid epidemic and Central American immigration, and for the film The First Wave in 2022, which followed the staff and patients of a New York hospital at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631\" href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/ross-mcdonnell-new-york-police-find-dismembered-body-on-beach-believed-to-be-irish-filmmaker-13012510\">\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lenkaed.com\" title=\"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Ross McDonnell: New York Police find dismembered body on beach believed to be Irish filmmaker | US News\" href=\"\/\">Ross McDonnell: New York Police find dismembered body on beach believed to be Irish filmmaker | US News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross McDonnell: New York Police find dismembered body on beach believed to be Irish filmmaker | US News Ross McDonnell: New York Police find dismembered body on beach believed to be Irish filmmaker | US News The dismembered body of an Emmy-winning filmmaker who disappeared this month was found at a New York beach. 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