A man was arrested on Long Island for his connection to a series of unsolved homicides for many years, known as the murders of Gilgo Beachwas identified as Rex Heuermannaccording to senior police officials.
Police and other law enforcement agencies could be seen searching the suspect’s home in Massapequa Park., as they searched to see if there was any evidence inside it that could link the man to the deaths. In addition, Law enforcement officers were seen in midtown Manhattan on Friday, conducting searches at the suspect’s office at Fifth Avenue and 36th Street.
For several years, Detectives suspected the perpetrator of the crimes lived on Long Island and traveled through Penn Station. A cell phone ping at the public transportation hub is part of the evidence collected, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
So far not much else is known about Heuermann, but a neighbor said he was born and raised on Long Island and has lived in the Massapequa area his entire life.
According to an interview with Hello Realtya channel on the YouTube platform that highlights life in New York City, the suspect stated that he had been working since 1987 and has worked extensively with the Department of Buildings.
The actor Billy Baldwin made it known that he went to high school with Heuermann, who graduated in the class of 1981. “Amazing… Massapequa is in shock. 23andMe attacks again ??? ”, she said on the social network Twitter.
Woke up this morning to learn that the Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect was my high school classmate Rex Heuermann.
Berner High School
Massapequa, New York
Class of 1981Married, two kids, architect.
“Average guy… quiet, family man.”
Mind-boggling… Massapequa is in shock.… pic.twitter.com/Tms0IWVazN— Billy Baldwin (@BillyBaldwin) July 14, 2023
In addition, other schoolmates posted Heuermann’s yearbook photo to an alumni Facebook group, saying they were shocked to hear the news of the capturereported NBC New York.
Since the discovery of human remains along the entire length of Gilgo Beach more than 10 years ago, the case has long drawn the attention of the general public. Unsolved homicides gained much more interest across the country when they became the subject of the 2020 Netflix streaming movie “Lost Girls.”
The deaths of 11 people whose remains were discovered between 2010 and 2011 left detectives stunned for many years.. Much of itThe victims were young women who were sex workers. Several of the bodies were found near the city of Gilgo Beach.
In 2022, an interagency task force with investigators from the FBI, as well as state and local police departments, was created for the purpose of solving this case.
The formation of this Gilgo Beach task force represents a commitment to investigate the unsolved crimes of women mostly young men whose skeletal remains were found along a Long Island highway, the county police commissioner said. of Suffolk, Rodney Harrison.
“We are happy to see that they are finally active, the police, to achieve something. Let’s wait and see what this all leads to,” said John Ray, the lawyer for the families of two victims, Shannan Gilbert and Jessica Taylor.
News of the suspect’s arrest comes a day after New York State Police responded to a report of human remains found in a wooded area off Southern State Parkway in Islip.. However, it is not clear if those remains were linked to the Gilgo Beach case.
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