Heuermann used a victim’s cellphone to torment her relatives with calls - including one in which he said he’d killed her - and doggedly searched for information about the investigation while trying to obscure his identity online, according to prosecutors.Īmong his searches: “Why hasn’t the long island serial killer been caught.” Voice and email messages seeking comment were sent Friday and Saturday to various numbers and addresses associated with Heuermann and his family. “We are going to convict him, and we are going to hold him responsible for what he did,” Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney declared. On Friday, Heuermann was charged with murder in three of the killings, and prosecutors called him the prime suspect in a fourth.īut police and prosecutors paint a picture of a scheming predator who outwardly maintained the life of a suburban professional, while secretly killing women when his wife was out of town. Heuermann.Įnergized by the truck tidbit, investigators charted the calls and travels of multiple cellphones, picked apart email aliases, delved into search histories, and collected discarded bottles - and even a pizza crust - for advanced DNA testing, according to court papers. Then a fresh review last year tied an old clue, about a pickup truck linked to a victim’s disappearance, to a new name: Rex A. The case endured through five police commissioners, more than 1,000 tips, countless theories and supposed conspiracies. What became known as the Gilgo Beach murders - the victims mostly young women who had been sex workers - flummoxed investigators for over a dozen years. An 11th person, whose disappearance had spurred the initial search, was found dead by the highway in December 2011. The remains of six other people were found along several miles of the same parkway during the next few months. (AP) - The first find was startling: a woman’s skeletal remains cast into the dunes along a remote Long Island highway.ĭays after that discovery in December 2010, police discovered parts of three more women nearby on a spit of sand known as Gilgo Beach. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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