Suspected Serial Killer Caught Thanks to One Detail Hiding in Plain Sight
The kind of painstaking police work used to nab a suspect in New York’s more than decade-old Gilgo Beach murders is the stuff of TV crime shows.
And a key was a Chevrolet Avalanche sitting in plain view.
Internal problems in Long Island law enforcement may have contributed to the delay in solving the case, according to Newsday, but upon taking office in 2022, Suffolk District Attorney Ray Tierney pledged to renew efforts to solve it.
Tedious, careful detective work eventually resulted in the recent arrest of 59-year-old Rex A. Heuermann of Massapequa Park, New York, charged with the murders between 2007 and 2010 of three women.
Heuermann,
