USA: An architect suspected of being the Long Island serial killer has been arrested

A 59-year-old architect has been arrested after spending more than a decade investigating murders of prostitutes on Long Island east of New York.

After more than a decade of investigating serial finds of the bodies of prostitutes near the beaches of Long Island, east of New York, a suspect has been arrested and charged with the murders of three of them.

The suspect brought before court on Friday, Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old New York architect, was charged in the 2009 and 2010 murders of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello and was found not guilty, according to a prosecutor’s court document of Suffolk County the prime suspect in the murder of a fourth person, Maureen Brainard-Barnes.

According to American media, this father was arrested Thursday night near his Manhattan office while his home in the village of Massapequa Park, near the beaches where the victims were found, was being searched.

Victims aged 22 to 27

The victims, who were spotted within a radius of less than 500 metres, were sex workers between the ages of 22 and 27. They were all found “in the same position, the same way, or tied with belts or tape, and three of them wrapped in a burlap-like material,” prosecutor Ray Tierney said during an emergency conference.

The case began with the May 2010 report of the disappearance of a 24-year-old prostitute from neighboring New Jersey, Shannon Gilbert, for whom Rex Heuermann will not be prosecuted.

In all, between 2010 and 2011, the remains of eleven human bodies, nine women, one man and one girl, were found in brambles between sand and road between the dunes on Gilgo Beach and Oak Beach beaches. These discoveries had terrified the local population and kept the police at bay for years.

The suspect was betrayed by his vehicle

According to the court document, the 2022 investigation focused on the architect after it was discovered that a vehicle a victim had been seen in at the time of his disappearance was registered in his name.

From there, investigators uncovered DNA and phone evidence against the suspect.

According to prosecutors, Rex Heuermann also conducted hundreds of internet searches on the investigation, with questions such as “Why wasn’t the Long Island serial killer arrested?”. Pornographic images of torture were also found on his computer, the prosecutor said.

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