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Suspected Long Island serial killer's notes outlined meticulous murder plot: court docs

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. – Prosecutors now say suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann kept meticulous notes on how to kill and get away with it as his alleged methodology changed over the course of nearly two decades and at least six murders he is accused of committing. Graphic content warning A deleted document investigators say they recovered from his computer shows he …

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Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect allegedly has more victims, hunting grounds than police first imagined

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. – Suspected Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann returned to a New York courthouse Thursday to be charged with killing two more women. Heuermann was indicted on two new murder charges in the deaths of Jessica Taylor in July 2003 and Sandra Costilla in November 1993. Authorities also revealed in court records that during their investigation they found …

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Gilgo Beach investigators link another victim to suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann, sources say

Long Island, New York, investigators have linked a fifth alleged victim to Rex Heuermann, the suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer who was accused last year of murdering four women and dumping their bodies along a remote highway more than a decade ago, sources tell Fox News Digital. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment but acknowledged that Heuermann …

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Dog bed DNA could put death penalty into play for Gilgo suspect Rex Heuermann – here's how: cold case expert

MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. – Suspected Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann is under new scrutiny as investigators have returned to his home nearly a year after his arrest on multiple murder charges in the Gilgo Beach case, which perplexed authorities for over a decade until last year. After a New York task force placed Heuermann under arrest last year, he …

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Rex Heuermann’s family kept gruesome piece of evidence, source says

MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. – EXCLUSIVE: Shortly before New York police made a surprise return to the Long Island home of suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann, his family was still in possession of a gruesome album of crime scene photos, according to a source with knowledge of the incident. The book, “Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective’s Scrapbook,” is a collection of …

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Suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann's home searched again

MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. – Long Island police have returned to the Massapequa Park home of suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann. His wife Asa Ellerup, who filed for divorce shortly after his arrest last summer, and their adult children were not home at the time, according to her lawyer, Bob Macedonio. Investigators from both the New York State Police and Suffolk …

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