Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders says the Gilgo Beach investigation puts serial killers on notice.
The women were expendable. They were sex workers, after all. When they disappeared between 2007 and 2010, Long Island law enforcement formed no task forces. There was no huge outcry from the public. Their killer had chosen victims who could go missing without fanfare.
Newspapers are full of accurate stories about FBI misbehavior and bad police work. This is the story of law enforcement officials who, in the face of easy criticism, soldiered on when few expected them to. Heuermann has pleaded not guilty. His lawyer Michael Brown said the case against his client is circumstantial. Be it noted, Heuermann should be presumed not guilty in a court of law.
Advances in technology tracked key cell-site locations for the burner phones he used to contact his young victims. As investigators surveilled Heuermann, he threw out a pizza box with a crust that offered up mitochondrial DNA evidence cited in the indictment.
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