Gilgo Beach serial killings

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Long Island architect charged in 3 of the Gilgo Beach serial killings

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — A Long Island architect was charged Friday with murder in the deaths of three of the 11 victims in a long-unsolved string of killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders after detectives pursuing a new lead say they matched DNA from a pizza he ate to genetic material found on the women’s remains.

https://apnews.com/article/long-island-serial-killings-arrest-gilgo-beach-c3af339961c00276429908b1dd20dc19

Gilgo Beach murders timeline: A search for missing woman turned into serial killer case

There's the known "Gilgo Four" but there have been at least 10 bodies discovered on Long Island. Not all killings are linked to the same killer, police have noted

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/timeline-of-gilgo-beach-murders-how-a-search-for-missing-woman-turned-into-a-serial-killer-case/4505370/

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Long Island serial killings arrest brings both pain and relief to victims’ families

NEW YORK (AP) — The trail had gone cold as clues suddenly dwindled. For a time, doubts swirled about whether a killer who dumped the remains of his female victims along remote stretches of coastline on New York’s Long Island would ever be caught.

https://apnews.com/article/long-island-heuermann-serial-killer-gilgo-e8496c5bb2c1878ae8be00adb343c935?

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Gilgo Beach murder victim 'Jane Doe Seven' identified 27 years after she went missing

Karen Vergata, 34, was identified as "Jane Doe Seven" in the Gilgo Beach homicide investigation using DNA genetic genealogy.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-expected-identify-another-victim-gilgo-beach-killings-source-sa-rcna98125

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Suspect in Long Island’s Gilgo Beach serial killings is charged with the death of a fourth woman

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — A New York architect charged in a string of slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings was accused Tuesday in the death of a fourth woman, a Connecticut mother of two who vanished in 2007 and whose remains were found more than three years later along a coastal highway on Long Island.

https://apnews.com/article/gilgo-beach-long-island-killings-rex-heuermann-40366d420e743a29418ead5576019d61?

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Man charged in Gilgo Beach serial killings kept ‘blueprint’ of crimes on computer, prosecutors say

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — The New York architect accused of murdering multiple women and leaving their corpses scattered along the Long Island coast kept a “blueprint” of his crimes on his computer, prosecutors revealed Thursday as they brought charges against Rex Heuermann in two more killings.

https://apnews.com/article/gilgo-beach-long-island-serial-killer-cd010da500bedf2aabded35d1b939629?

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New charges for alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer cast scrutiny on another man’s murder conviction

NEW YORK (AP) — For years prosecutors saw a connection in the killings of three young women who disappeared in the winter of 1993 and 1994, their nude bodies found strangled, beaten and left in similar poses in the Long Island brush.

https://apnews.com/article/gilgo-beach-killings-rex-heuermann-john-bittrolf-eb7dc3c07639f77493d4f01a2c29ea7e?

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Gilgo Beach serial killer case a key test in use of advanced DNA techniques in criminal trials

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — When Maureen Brainard-Barnes’ skeletal remains were found hidden in the roadside scrub near Long Island’s Gilgo Beach in the winter of 2010, there was hardly any physical evidence that might help investigators find her killer, save for a single stray hair.

https://apnews.com/article/gilgo-beach-serial-killings-rex-heuermann-d0da6c8506d02ddcedfbd310d6e004bc?

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Judge rules 7 murder cases against Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann will be tried together

Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann appeared in court for a hearing Tuesday. He has pleaded not guilty to the murders of at least seven women over 30 years.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/gilgo-beach-serial-killer-suspect-rex-heuermann-due-back-in-court/?

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Man accused in Gilgo Beach serial killings is expected to plead guilty, sources say

NEW YORK (AP) — The man accused in Long Island’s infamous Gilgo Beach serial killings intends to plead guilty in the case next month, according to two people familiar with his decision.

https://apnews.com/article/gilgo-beach-serial-killings-suspect-guilty-plea-9207bc2215ef7d5ce9c17e81433dcea8?

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Rex Heuermann pleads guilty to murder charges and admits he killed 8 women in the Gilgo Beach case

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — A Long Island architect who led a secret life as a serial killer pleaded guilty on Wednesday to murdering seven women and admitted he killed an eighth in a string of long-unsolved crimes known as the Gilgo Beach killings.

https://apnews.com/article/gilgo-beach-serial-killings-guilty-plea-fdfbb6aace18e89bd5f7593859825eef?