Birthmark, shorts on headless corpse washed up on NYC beach match missing Irish filmmaker

NEW YORK — A distinctive birthmark helped police link the headless, armless corpse that washed up on a Queens beach to missing Irish filmmaker Ross McDonnell, police said Tuesday. Police are still waiting for a DNA match, but they believe the remains belong to the 44-year-old Emmy-award winning visual artist, who was reported missing more than two weeks ago, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said. “We matched a birth mark on the body that was discovered (to McDonnell),” Kenny said. “We also have photographs of him wearing the same swimsuit.” McDonnell was a fan of so-called “wild swimming”...