The Capture of the Long Island Serial Killer: Thirteen Years of Mystery and Corruption

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After thirteen years of puzzles and immobility due to the corruption of a Long Island police department, a 59-year-old architect was finally arrested in mid-July in New York, accused of at least four murders of prostitutes. The mystery around this serial killer could only be solved by the appointment of a new team of outstanding investigators.

On July 13, Rex Heuermann pushed the door of 385 Ve Avenue around 8:30 p.m., an old coworking building whose 11th floor houses his architectural firm. On the surveillance video of a business on 36th Street, his massive figure, a meter ninety-three wearing a dark mane, crosses as in a silent dream the bustling crowd of Midtown. Encumbered by the weight of a large black bag slung over his shoulder, the assassin headed with heavy strides towards the corner of the Empire State Building, to reach Penn Station, and take his commuter train to his home in Massapequa Park, an hour from New York.

He didn’t see behind him three hulking men in suits and ties suddenly quickening their pace, nor the four others in front of him swerve abruptly into the crowd to block his way. In a second, a swarm of agents surrounds him. No screams, no police series handcuffs. After more than ten years of enigma, the arrest of the man who is suspected of being the serial killer of Gilgo Beach evokes a banal crowd on the wide sidewalk of Fifth Avenue, bypassed by annoyed passers-by.

For more than a year, a new team of top police professionals had redoubled their efforts to confuse the murderer of four women, all prostitutes, found almost side by side, between 2010 and 2011, in the brush along Gilgo Beach, a deserted beach on Long Island, 60 km east of New York. As early as March 2022, this “task Force” had placed Rex

2023-07-24 00:14:07
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