In keeping with a regulation enforcement supply for Individuals on Friday, police now have a suspect in custody for the Lengthy Island serial killer case! A person has been arrested in connection to a number of murders of younger girls across the Gilgo Seaside space in Lengthy Island, New York, greater than a decade in the past.
The insider revealed the suspect’s id: Rex Heuermann, an architect who labored out of an workplace in Manhattan (above, inset). His actual expenses are unknown right now, however it is a large improvement within the case!
For individuals who don’t know, the thriller started in December 2010 when police unintentionally discovered the our bodies of 4 girls wrapped in tarps and buried inside roughly 500 ft of each other within the marsh on Gilgo Seaside. The stays had been recognized as Melissa Barthelemy, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Amber Costello, and Megan Waterman — all of whom labored as on-line escorts and went lacking between 2007 and 2010.
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Regulation enforcement had been trying to find 24-year-old escort Shannan Gilbert after they occurred to stumble throughout the grisly scene. She disappeared after leaving a shopper’s home within the Oak Seaside group. Her stays had been ultimately found, too, in December 2011.
And two months after police recognized the our bodies of the 4 girls, six extra human stays had been discovered alongside the seashore in March 2011. Terrible. 4 of the our bodies had been girls, one was an Asian male, and one was — unimaginably — a feminine toddler. Two units of the stays had been additionally linked to dismembered torsos of ladies discovered 40 miles away in Manorville.
For years, the case left investigators utterly baffled. No arrests had been ever made for over a decade after the invention. And it wasn’t till January 2020 that they made one other large improvement within the case. Police shared footage of a black leather-based belt found at one of many crime scenes that they believed belonged to the killer. Suffolk County Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart stated that the belt was “dealt with by the suspect and didn’t belong to any of the victims.” The belt had the letters “WH” or “HM” imprinted on it, relying which facet was up. Officers believed the letters to be the suspect’s initials. Clearly Rex Heuermann doesn’t have the initials WH. Hmm…
Is he the killer? Is there extra to it??
Per NBC New York, Heuermann is predicted to look in courtroom on Friday, the place we’ll be taught extra concerning the expenses in opposition to him. We can not think about what the victims’ households should be feeling proper now after ready for therefore lengthy to search out out who doubtlessly dedicated these heinous murders. Reactions to the case, Perezcous readers? Tell us within the feedback beneath. You’ll be able to see extra particulars concerning the investigation and a press convention from regulation enforcement officers (beneath):
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