Gilgo Beach killings in Long Island, NY investigated by police


Authorities remove evidence as they search the home of suspect Rex Heuermann, Tuesday, July 18, 2023, in Massapequa Park, N.Y. Police carted more boxes of potential evidence Tuesday out of the Long Island home of Heuermann, who has been charged with killing at least three women in the long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings.
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Polk County police officers stand guard as law enforcement searches the home of Gilgo Beach murders suspect Rex Heuermann in Massapequa Park, New York, on July 18, 2023. Heuermann, a New York architect, was charged on July 14 in connection with the long-unsolved murders of three women whose bodies were found near a beach on Long Island more than a decade ago.
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Crime laboratory officers are seen outside the home of Gilgo Beach murders suspect Rex Heuermann in Massapequa Park, New York, on July 18, 2023.
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Authorities continue to work at the home of suspect Rex Heuermann, bottom right, in Massapequa Park, N.Y., Monday, July 24, 2023. Heuermann has been charged with killing at least three women in the long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings.
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A general view of Gilgo Beach on July 18, 2023 in Babylon, New York. Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old New York architect, has been charged with murdering three women and suspected in the death of a fourth. A total of 11 bodies, mostly women, have been found along the remote beach area starting in 2010.
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Etienne DeVilliers, center, a next-door neighbor speaks to authorities working outside as they search the home of Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann, Wednesday, July 19, 2023, in New York. As new details emerge about how police finally caught the alleged killer, they’ve also raised questions about whether investigators adequately pursued a key lead that may have helped solve the case sooner.
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Crime laboratory officers prepare to search the home of Gilgo Beach murders suspect Rex Heuermann in Massapequa Park, New York, on July 18, 2023. Heuermann, a New York architect, was charged on July 14 in connection with the long-unsolved murders of three women whose bodies were found near a beach on Long Island more than a decade ago.
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This combination of undated image provided by the Suffolk County Police Department, shows Melissa Barthelemy, top left, Amber Costello, top right, Megan Waterman, bottom left, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes. Authorities on Long Island are vowing to continue investigating a string of killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders after charging an architect in the deaths of three of the 11 victims. Rex Heuermann, 59, is accused of killing Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Costello and Megan Waterman over a decade ago. He is also considered the prime suspect in the death of another woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes.
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Attorney, John Ray, right, and Jasmine Robinson, center left, cousin of Jessica Taylor, a victim of Long Island serial killer, exit the courtroom at the Arthur M. Cromarty Court Complex, on Friday, July 14, 2023, in Riverhead, N.Y.
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Law enforcement officials are seen as they investigate the home of a suspect arrested in the unsolved Gilgo Beach killings on July 14, 2023 in Massapequa Park, New York. A suspect in the Gilgo Beach killings was arrested in the unsolved case tied to at least 10 sets of human remains that were discovered since 2010 in suburban Long Island. A grand jury charged Heurmann with six counts of murder. The charges stem from the deaths of three of the four “Gilgo Four” women whose bodies were discovered along a stretch of Ocean Parkway in Long Island in 2010.
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Emergency personnel search through the brush for human remains near Jones Beach in Wantagh, N.Y., April 11, 2011.
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Crime scene investigators use metal detectors to search a marsh for the remains of Shannan Gilbert, Dec. 12, 2011 in Oak Beach, New York.
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In this Dec. 8, 2011 photo, investigators use a backhoe to dig while searching for Shannan Gilbert’s body in different sectors of a marsh area just east of Oak Beach, N.Y.
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FILE – Suffolk County police use a ditcher to search through the marsh, Dec. 7, 2011, in the Oak Beach community of Babylon, N.Y, after clothing and other items were found belonging to Shannan Gilbert, a New Jersey woman who disappeared in 2010. A Long Island architect has been charged, Friday, July 14, 2023, with murder in the deaths of three of the 11 victims in a long-unsolved string of killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders. (James Carbone/Newsday via AP, Pool, File) ORG XMIT: NYRD507
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FILE – Suffolk County dive team police officers search for possible victims of a suspected serial killer in Hemlock Cove along Ocean Parkway near Cedar Beach, N.Y., April 14, 2011. A Long Island architect has been charged, Friday, July 14, 2023, with murder in the deaths of three of the 11 victims in a long-unsolved string of killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea, File) ORG XMIT: NYRD504
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