In a major breakthrough, after 13 years of man hunt within the Gilgo Beach serial killings, authorities have arrested a suspect chargeable for the murders. New York Post studies suggests, he has been recognized as Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect from Massapequa Park. Heuermann can be produced in court docket tomorrow.

The case has drawn immense public consideration since 11 human stays had been discovered alongside a New York seaside freeway greater than a decade in the past. The thriller attracted nationwide headlines for a few years and the unsolved killings had been the topic of the 2020 Netflix movie “Lost Girls.”

The arrest is particularly related to the murders of the “Gilgo Four,” the 4 ladies who had been discovered wrapped in burlap in shut proximity to one another in late 2010. By 2011, the variety of our bodies had climbed to 11 — eight ladies in addition to an unidentified man and toddler.

The our bodies had been discovered throughout a seek for lacking Jersey City-based intercourse employee Shannan Gilbert, whose physique wasn’t discovered till December 2011, a yr after the Gilgo Four.

But will open the pandora’s field for different victims who had been killed in the same trend.

The suspect has been accused of murdering eleven victims, who had been discovered wrapped in burlap in shut proximity to one another in late 2010 and 2011 alongside a suburban Long Island seaside freeway. Those who’ve been recognized are Shannan Gilbert, Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Costello, Megan Waterman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Jessica Taylor and Valerie Mack.

All About the Long Island Killer

According to the New York Post, the arrested suspect’s neighbours declare shortly earlier than 9:30 a.m., not less than eight investigators wearing forensic gear had been seen milling round Heuermann’s home. Some recognized him as ‘neighbourhood creep’ and admitted they’ve ‘chills’ pondering he lived close by for therefore lengthy.

According to studies, Rex Heuermann is an skilled architect who owns and based the Midtown structure agency RH Consultants and Associates. The agency has prestigious purchasers equivalent to Catholic Charities, NYC-DEP Sewerage Treatment, and American Airlines. Heuermann, who has been working in Manhattan since 1987, was born and raised on Long Island, as he talked about in an interview posted on YouTube.

How was the Gilgo Beach suspect arrested

According to The Post, Heuermann was nabbed at his house in Massapequa Park and was on the particular Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation Task Force for practically a yr. He was arrested after being linked by DNA.

According to CBS the massive breakthrough got here final yr when after police launched an audio of a 911 name made by one of many victims, Shannan Gilbert simply earlier than she vanished in 2010.

Gilbert, a intercourse employee was leaving from a consumer’s home when she known as 911. “There’s somebody after me,” she is heard repeating to the operator. After the 21 minutes name when the police reached the spot she had gone lacking.

Investigators again then claimed they did not suppose Shannan was murdered. Instead, they felt she might need been excessive on medicine and bumped into the marsh the place she might have drowned. ‘Based on the proof, the details, and the totality of the circumstances, the prevailing opinion of Shannan’s dying, whereas tragic, was not homicide and most definitely not felony,’ investigators said.

Later in 2022 investigators voiced hope that releasing the 911 audio would result in solutions within the bigger seek for the Gilgo Beach killer, and officers introduced a doubling of the reward for info on the murders to $50,000.

Investigators had been looking for Gilbert once they discovered different stays on Gilgo Beach in December that yr — ladies of their 20s whose stays had been wrapped in burlap sacks. Known because the Gilgo Four, they had been later recognized as Maureen Brainard-Barnes, kidnapped in 2007; Melissa Barthelemy in 2009; and Megan Waterman and Amber Costello, who went lacking in 2010. Six extra units of stays had been discovered alongside Ocean Parkway the next spring.

The Gilgo Beach killings case

The case turned nationwide headlines in 2010 when physique of Melissa Barthelemy was found alongside Ocean Parkway, adopted by the next restoration of three different ladies’s stays within the following days. These victims, often known as the “Gilgo Four,” embody Megan Waterman, Amber Lynn Costello, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes. By spring 2011, the variety of our bodies found within the space had risen to a complete of 10, together with an unidentified man and toddler.