(Reuters/Courtesy of Suffolk County Police) All About the Long Island KillerĪccording to the New York Post, the arrested suspect's neighbours claim shortly before 9:30 a.m., at least eight investigators dressed in forensic gear were seen milling around Heuermann’s house.

The locations where eight of 10 bodies were found near Gilgo Beach since December 2010 are seen in this Suffolk County Police handout image. Those who have been identified are Shannan Gilbert, Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Costello, Megan Waterman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Jessica Taylor and Valerie Mack. The suspect has been accused of murdering eleven victims, who were found wrapped in burlap in close proximity to each other in late 20 along a suburban Long Island beach highway. The bodies were found during a search for missing Jersey City-based sex worker Shannan Gilbert, whose body wasn’t found until December 2011, a year after the Gilgo Four.īut will open the pandora's box for other victims who were killed in the similar fashion. By 2011, the number of bodies had climbed to 11 - eight women as well as an unidentified man and toddler. The arrest is specifically connected to the murders of the 'Gilgo Four,' the four women who were found wrapped in burlap in close proximity to each other in late 2010.

The mystery attracted national headlines for many years and the unsolved killings were the subject of the 2020 Netflix film “Lost Girls.” The case has drawn immense public attention since 11 human remains were found along a New York beach highway more than a decade ago. Police officers stand guard near the house where a suspect has been taken into custody on New York's Long Island in connection with a long-unsolved string of killings, known as the Gilgo Beach murders, Friday, July 14, 2023, in Massapequa, N.Y. Heuermann will be produced in court tomorrow.

New York Post reports suggests, he has been identified as Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect from Massapequa Park. In a significant breakthrough, after 13 years of man hunt in the Gilgo Beach serial killings, authorities have arrested a suspect responsible for the murders.

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