Investigators are close to pinning the murder of the fourth Gilgo Beach victim on alleged serial killer Rex Heuermann and are widening their probe to compare his DNA to other remains found in the r…
Rex Heuermann was charged with murder of three victims in a long-unsolved string of killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders.Investigators are close to pinning the murder of the fourth Gilgo Beach victim on suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann — and are widening their probe to connect him to the other six bodies dumped in the remote Long Island spot, a law enforcement source told The Post.
Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said his team started reexamining the Gilgo Beach killer case in January.Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison helped put together a task force to make a new push to solve the case.At the same time, investigators weren’t sure if any of the women were killed in Heuermann’s Massapequa Park home but were pouring through mounds of evidence looking for their DNA or other evidence, the source said.
As far as connecting his DNA to crimes nationally, the source said, Heuermann’s DNA will be put through the FBI’s database only if and when he is convicted.Maureen Brainard-Barnes’s body was found near Gilgo Beach and officials have named Heuermann as a prime suspect in her death., and “anyone who was in contact with him.”
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