Alleged Long Island Killer Arrested

[PKT_VOL]

Suspect Arrested in Serial Killings of Women Near Gilgo Beach

The burlap-wrapped bodies were unearthed near remote Gilgo Beach on Long Island’s South Shore more than a decade ago, terrifying residents and leaving the victims’ families bereft. In all, the remains of nine women, a man and a toddler were discovered.

Since then, investigators have tried to determine whether the killings had been committed by one person or by multiple killers. But for more than a decade the case went nowhere.

Then, on Thursday, Rex Heuermann, an architect who had lived most of his life in Nassau County and worked in Manhattan, was taken into custody, and a bail application said he had been charged in three killings and was the prime suspect in a fourth. Before his arrest, investigators had sifted through clues as simple as a monogrammed belt and as sophisticated as the electronic signals of disposable mobile phones.

By Friday morning, police officers had cordoned off Mr. Heuermann’s home, a small, one-story house with faded red paint, on a block of First Avenue in Massapequa Park, where vehicles and officers converged on the scene.

The authorities made the arrest in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday night, said Rodney Harrison, the Suffolk County police commissioner, during a brief news conference outside the house late Friday morning. The suspect was expected to be indicted Friday afternoon, said Commissioner Harrison, who did not name the person arrested.

“The nonstop dogged determination” of several agencies led to the arrest, said Steve Bellone, the Suffolk County executive, adding that he hoped it would bring “justice for these victims and closure for these families who have suffered.”

The killings terrorized residents for more than a decade as body after body was discovered in the remote area about 40 miles from Midtown starting in 2010. In all, remains of nine women, a man and a toddler were discovered in the area. For years, investigators have probed whether the killings had been committed by one person or by multiple killers.

 

[Pennheel]

Suspect Arrested in Serial Killings of Women Near Gilgo Beach

Glad they caught the creep. I thought this was going to be one of those unsolved cases. Anymore, people aren't going to get away with these crimes.

 

[YankeeVol]

Glad they caught the creep. I thought this was going to be one of those unsolved cases. Anymore, people aren't going to get away with these crimes.

 

[Pennheel]

I would've thought through time, things would have gotten better. I was a little naive about that.

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

It's hard when none of the people who were there on the scene when it goes down managed to see anything.

 

[Jackcrevol]

I would've thought through time, things would have gotten better. I was a little naive about that.

Not being political here. Less police people, less people to investigate crimes. More people feeling compelled to arm themselves, more connectivity, more access to weird crap. People can look up how to do that junk. Chances probably increase that violent crimes will rise.

Anyway, hope they find a place under the jail.