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ATU Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The wife of Rex Heuermann, the suspect arrested on suspicion of murdering three women in the Gilgo Beach, Long Island, area told ABC News Monday that “everything is destroyed” following the arrest of her husband. Asa Ellerup told ABC News in a phone call that she and her two […]

Obtained by ABC News (NEW YORK) — There’s no apparent connection between Gilgo Beach murder suspect Rex Heuermann and the killings of sex workers near Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 2006, prosecutors said Tuesday. The four New Jersey victims were found dead along the Black Horse Pike roadway in Egg Harbor Township and were believed to […]

Olena Ruban/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Gilgo Beach murder suspect Rex Heuermann is set to appear in court on Tuesday as authorities continue to investigate the slayings. Police last week concluded their search at Heuermann’s suburban Massapequa Park, Long Island, home and investigators are now sifting through the evidence recovered there. Police also dug up […]

Howard Schnapp/Newsday RM via Getty Images (MASSAPEQUA, N.Y.) — Authorities have concluded their search at the “cluttered” house belonging to Gilgo Beach, New York, murder suspect Rex Heuermann, authorities said Tuesday. Investigators “obtained a massive amount of material” at the suburban Massapequa Park, Long Island, home and will now sift through the evidence, Suffolk County District […]

WABC (MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y.) — Police are digging up the Gilgo Beach, New York, murder suspect’s backyard as the search for evidence continues. A backhoe was brought to Rex Heuermann’s suburban Massapequa Park, Long Island, home on Sunday. The excavating equipment was in use for about three hours on Sunday and remains at the scene. […]

Howard Schnapp/Newsday RM via Getty Images (MASSAPEQUA, N.Y.) — The wife of alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann has filed for divorce nearly a week after the Manhattan architect was arrested in the case, according to a new court filing. The filing in Suffolk County Supreme Court is dated Wednesday and indicates the divorce will […]

Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department (NEW YORK) — Police have called the Gilgo Beach murders “one of the most consequential homicide investigations” in Long Island’s history. The search for missing sex worker Shannan Gilbert led to the grisly discovery of 10 other bodies on a stretch of beach along the island’s South Shore. Now, nearly 13 […]

Thomas A. Ferrara/Newsday RM via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The shocking revelation that New York City architect Rex Heuermann had been charged with three murders in connection to women found dead along Long Island’s Gilgo Beach provided some answers about the decade-old case. But it also generated just as many new questions. Heuermann has been […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As investigators dig into the “double life” of suspect Rex A. Heuermann, the Manhattan architect charged in the murders of three women in Long Island, they’re also checking to see if they can tie him to unsolved murders or missing persons cases throughout New York state, an NYPD official […]

CREDIT: Jeremy Hogan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A suspect has been arrested in connection with three of the 10 victims linked to the Gilgo Beach, New York, murders, authorities said. New York City architect Rex Heuermann is charged with the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello, whose bodies were found covered in […]