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How the Gilgo Beach serial killer turned the Long Island shore into a graveyard

More than a decade after 11 bodies were found dumped in Long Beach, married father of two and Manhattan-based architect Rex Heuermann is under arrest. Does this mean the hunt for the Gilgo Beach serial killer is finally over? Rachel Sharp reports

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Police are searching storage units tied to the Gilgo Beach killings suspect

Authorities are looking for possible body parts, trophies or evidence that could connect Rex Heuermann to the additional bodies found in Long Island.

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Pizza crust, burner phones and his wife’s hair: How Long Island police tied Rex Heuermann to the Gilgo Beach murders

It’s taken 13 years but Suffolk County Police finally say they’ve caught the serial killer who dumped his victims along the shores of Gilgo Beach – thanks to a pimp’s tip about his pickup truck, a stash of burner phones, his wife’s hair and a pizza crust. Rachel Sharp reports

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‘They’re going through utter hell:’ BTK Killer’s daughter sympathises with Gilgo Beach suspect’s family

EXCLUSIVE: Kerri Rawson was just 26 when her father was unmasked in 2005 as the BTK predator who’d terrorised Kansas for more than three decades. Now a victim advocate and 45-year-old mother, she tells Sheila Flynn that she’s ‘heartbroken’ as another family comes to terms with a loved one’s arrest…

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JonBenét Ramsey’s brother says he believes her killer has ‘same bio’ as Gilgo Beach murders suspect

‘No criminal record but you can’t hide this level of darkness,’ John Andrew Ramsey tweeted

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How the Gilgo Beach serial killer turned the Long Island shore into a graveyard

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Manhattan architect, family man and accused serial killer: Who is Gilgo Beach suspect Rex Heuermann?

A Manhattan architect and father-of-two has been arrested in connection to one of the most infamous unsolved serial killer cases along the East Coast. So who really is Rex Heuermann? Rachel Sharp reports

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Police investigating the Gilgo Beach killings have searched a Long Island storage facility

Detectives investigating the long-unsolved murders known as the Gilgo Beach killings have searched a storage facility in the Long Island community of Amityville over the weekend

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Long Island killings ‘the worst I’ve ever seen’, top police investigator says

Anthony Carter calls architect Rex Heuermann, charged with murders of three women in Gilgo Beach in 2010, a ‘demon’

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Long Island police search for ‘body parts’ in storage unit tied to Gilgo Beach murders suspect Rex Heuermann

Storage unit is just two miles from the married father-of-two’s home in Massapequa Park which investigators have been combing for evidence – and possible trophies and body parts – linking him to the slayings

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Gilgo Beach murders - live: Rex Heuermann lawyer claims police are ignoring ‘stronger’ serial killer suspects

Follow the latest news on the Gilgo Beach murders as police continue to search for evidence tying Rex Heuermann to the killings

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Arrest of suspect in Long Island serial killings brings both pain and relief to victims' families

Families of several women who were slain and dumped along the coastline of New York's Long Island are trying to find closure after the capture of a man who authorities say is responsible

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Pimp’s tip last year steered cops to accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann

NEW YORK — A Long Island pimp’s tip, coupled with chilling web searches and pizza crust DNA, steered authorities to serial killing suspect Rex Heuermann before his arrest in the notorious Gilgo Beach murders ended years of mystery in the long-cold case.

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How pizza crust helped link Rex Heuermann to the Gilgo Beach murders

DNA results came back on 12 June with a 99.96 per cent degree of accuracy

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‘An evil person a few blocks over’: Long Island town reels after arrest of serial killer suspect

Arrest of architect Rex Heuermann, accused of murder of three women, brings relief and fear to residents of Massapequa Park

The Independent UK

Gilgo Beach murders – live: Acquaintance recalls how Rex Heuermann liked talking about Long Island slayings

Authorities vow to continue investigation as accused Suffolk County serial killer pleads not guilty to six counts of murder

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DNA from pizza crust leads to arrest in US Gilgo Beach murders

Prosecutors have charged architect Rex Heuermann with murder in three of the 11 unsolved deaths on Long Island.

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A Man Suspected To Be The Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Has Finally Been Charged After 13 Years

A suspect has been arrested in relation to the Gilgo Beach murders. The killer became known as the "long island serial killer".

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Classmate of Gilgo Beach murders suspect reveals he left ‘love notes’ in her locker

Rex Heuermann has pleaded not guilty to murder charges over the deaths of Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy and Amber Costello

Tribune News Service

These are the women found slain on Gilgo Beach, Long Island

The arrest of Manhattan architect Rex Heuermann for several of the Gilgo Beach murders has drawn attention back to the young women who were killed and left to rot on a remote stretch of marshland in Long Island.

Evening Standard

Father-of-two charged with multiple murders in Long Island serial killer case

The mystery around the deaths fuelled immense public attention and led to 2020 Netflix film Lost Girls

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Burner phones and search history led police to Long Island killings suspect

Charging documents released on Friday show how investigators have tied architect Rex Heuermann to 11 sets of human remains

Tribune News Service

Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann pleads not guilty to three murders

NEW YORK -- Long Island architect Rex Heuermann pleaded not guilty Friday afternoon to charges of killing three women in the long-unsolved Gilgo Beach murders — a brutal spree that fascinated and horrified New Yorkers for more than a decade.

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Suspect in Long Island Gilgo Beach serial killings arrested; identified as architect Rex Heuermann: police sources

NEW YORK -- A Long Island man was arrested in the long-unsolved Gilgo Beach murders of 10 victims in a brutal killing spree targeting young women more than a decade ago, police said Friday.

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Gilgo Beach murders - live: Rex Heuermann sobs in court hearing over Long Island serial killing

Suffolk County authorities were on the scene of suspect Rex Heuermann’s home in Massapequa Park on Friday morning ahead of a press conference scheduled for 4pm EST

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