Man charged with decade-old murders on Lengthy Island

A person has been charged with the murders of three ladies in New York greater than a decade in the past and leaving their our bodies close to a Lengthy Island seaside, the Suffolk County District Lawyer’s workplace says.

Eleven units of human stays have been present in 2010 and 2011 alongside an remoted stretch of Gilgo Seashore on an Atlantic barrier island about 64km east of New York Metropolis.

The stays have been linked to 9 ladies, one man and a toddler lady. The killings drew nationwide consideration.

Suffolk County District Lawyer Raymond A. Tierney advised reporters Rex A. Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect who lived a 20-minute drive from Gilgo Seashore in Massapequa Park, confronted three counts every of homicide within the first and second diploma.

Heuermann pleaded not responsible to the costs, CBS Information mentioned. He was arrested on Thursday night and is below investigation for the homicide of a fourth girl whose disappearance and dying resembled the others, Tierney mentioned.

Tierney’s workplace requested in a bail utility that Heuermann be remanded into custody with out bail, noting that if convicted of the costs, Heuermann faces a number of sentences of life in jail with out parole.

Detectives used DNA samples to hyperlink Heuermann to the murders, together with swabbing leftover crust from a pizza he consumed after a surveillance crew noticed him throw it away in Manhattan in January, the bail utility mentioned.

Heuermann used a burner cell phone to contact the three ladies, who have been of their 20s and marketed themselves as intercourse staff, and sure them with belts or tape earlier than wrapping a number of the our bodies in a burlap-type materials, in accordance with the appliance.

“This case shouldn’t be over, it is solely starting,” Tierney mentioned at a press convention the place he appeared alongside Suffolk County legislation enforcement officers, federal brokers and a number of the victims’ kinfolk.

Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison mentioned his officers have been investigating the opposite murders. He urged the general public to share any related info with them.

At the least 5 of the Gilgo Seashore victims have been recognized as lacking prostitutes who had marketed for shoppers on-line, together with on Craigslist, police mentioned.

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