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Suspect in custody in Long Island’s Gilgo Beach killings

Rex Heuermann has lived for decades across a bay from where the remains of multiple people were found in 2010 and 2011.

By Associated Press, Newsday, John Ray Law and Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office

July 14, 2023

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Police officers arrive to the house where a suspect has been taken into custody on New York's Long Island in connection with a long-unsolved string of killings, known as the Gilgo Beach murders, Friday, July 14, in Massapequa Park, N.Y.
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Police officers secure the area near the house where a suspect has been taken into custody on New York's Long Island in connection with a long-unsolved string of killings, known as the Gilgo Beach murders, Friday, July 14, in Massapequa Park, N.Y.
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Police officers stand guard near the house where a suspect has been taken into custody on New York's Long Island in connection with a long-unsolved string of killings, known as the Gilgo Beach murders, Friday, July 14, in Massapequa Park, N.Y.
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Police officers stand guard near the house where a suspect has been taken into custody on New York's Long Island in connection with a long-unsolved string of killings, known as the Gilgo Beach murders, Friday, July 14, in Massapequa Park, N.Y.
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Crime laboratory officers arrive to the house where a suspect has been taken into custody on New York's Long Island in connection with a long-unsolved string of killings, known as the Gilgo Beach murders, Friday, July 14, in Massapequa Park, N.Y.
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Crime laboratory officers arrive to the house where a suspect has been taken into custody on New York's Long Island in connection with a long-unsolved string of killings, known as the Gilgo Beach murders, Friday, July 14, in Massapequa Park, N.Y.
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Crime laboratory officers arrive to the house where a suspect has been taken into custody on New York's Long Island in connection with a long-unsolved string of killings, known as the Gilgo Beach murders, Friday, July 14, in Massapequa Park, N.Y.
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Residents try to take a look as police officers search the house where a suspect has been taken into custody on New York's Long Island in connection with a long-unsolved string of killings, known as the Gilgo Beach murders, Friday, July 14, in Massapequa Park, N.Y.
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Residents try to take a look as police officers search the house where a suspect has been taken into custody on New York's Long Island in connection with a long-unsolved string of killings, known as the Gilgo Beach murders, Friday, July 14, in Massapequa Park, N.Y.
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Attorney, John Ray, left, and Jasmine Robinson, center, cousin of Jessica Taylor, a victim of a Long Island serial killer, exit the Arthur M. Cromarty Court Complex, on Friday, July 14, in Riverhead, N.Y. Rex Heuermann, 59, a Long Island architect has been charged with murder in the deaths of three of the 11 victims in a long-unsolved string of killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders.
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Attorney, John Ray speaks with media after leaving the courtroom at the Arthur M. Cromarty Court Complex, on Friday, July 14, in Riverhead, N.Y.
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SUFFOLK COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE VIA AP

This booking image provided by Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office, shows Rex Heuermann, a Long Island architect who was charged Friday, July 14, with murder in the deaths of three of the 11 victims in a long-unsolved string of killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders.
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A Suffolk County police officer and dog search for human remains in the Gilgo Beach area on New York's Long Island, on March 29, 2011.
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Law enforcement and emergency personnel examine an object on the side of the road, center, near Jones Beach on April 11, 2011, in Wantagh, N.Y.
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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.
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NEWSDAY VIA AP

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.
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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. A Long Island architect has been charged, Friday, July 14, with murder in the deaths of three of the 11 victims in a long-unsolved string of killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders.
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NEWSDAY VIA AP

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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JOHN RAY LAW VIA AP

This undated photo, provided by John Ray Law, Friday, July 14, shows Shannan Gilbert, whose remains were found along at Gilgo Beach, on New York's Long Island, decades ago.
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JOHN RAY LAW VIA AP

This photo provided by John Ray Law, Friday, July 14, shows Jessica Taylor, whose remains were found along at Gilgo Beach, on New York's Long Island, decades ago.

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