He ADN taken from the suspect in a series of murders on Long Island matches the genetic material extracted from a slice of pizza that was used as a clue to arrest him, prosecutors reported in court on Wednesday.
The authorities had taken the test Rex Heuermannextracting ADN of your cheek with a cotton swab.
Heurmann, 60, was arrested on July 13 accused of the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman y Amber Costellothree of the women whose bodies were found on a remote Long Island highway, and has been named the prime suspect in the death of a fourth woman.
He pleaded not guilty and He has been held without bail in the Suffolk County Jail.a Riverhead.
At the time of his arrest, prosecutors said they had analyzed the ADN of a pizza crust that Heuermann had thrown into a Manhattan trash can and had been compared to the ADN of the hairs found on Waterman’s body. Prosecutors then obtained permission from the court to collect ADN from a Heuermann buccal swab as additional test of his connection to the Waterman murder.
“The oral swab erases all doubt”Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney told the judge, according to Newsday.
The arrest of Heuermann, an architect, came 13 years after police searching for a missing woman found 10 groups of buried human remains in the bushes near remote Gilgo Beach on Long Island.
Authorities suspected that some of the murders had been committed by a serial killer, but they have long said they did not believe all the victims were killed by the same person. Most of the murders remain unsolved.
2023-09-27 23:46:00
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