After more than a decade of investigating serial discoveries of the bodies of prostitutes near the beaches of Long Island, New York, a suspect has been arrested and charged in the murders of three of them. The man is a 59-year-old New York architect.
He was arraigned on Friday, according to a court document from the Suffolk County prosecutor’s office in the United States. The suspect, Rex Heuermann, has been charged and pleaded not guilty to the three murders committed in 2009 and 2010. He is the number one suspect for the murder of a fourth woman.
According to the American media, this father was arrested Thursday evening near his offices in Manhattan, while his residence, in the village of Massapequa Park which is near the beaches where the victims were found, was searched.
The victims, discovered within a radius of less than 500 meters, were sex workers aged 22 to 27. They were all found “in the same position, tied in the same way or by belts or tape, and three of them wrapped in a burlap-like material,” the prosecutor said.
Eleven corpses including a child
The case began with the report in May 2010 of the disappearance of a 24-year-old prostitute from neighboring New Jersey, for which Rex Heuermann is not being prosecuted.
In total, the remains of eleven human bodies, nine women, a man and a girl, were found between 2010 and 2011 along the beaches of Gilgo Beach, Oak Beach, in bramble bushes located between the sand and the road, among the dunes. These discoveries had frightened the local population and kept the police in check for years.
According to the court document, the investigation focused on the architect in 2022, after it was discovered that a vehicle in which a victim had been seen at the time of his disappearance was registered in his name. From there, investigators uncovered DNA and phone evidence against the suspect. Pornographic torture images were also found on his computer.
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2023-07-14 22:31:36
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