Discarded pizza, cellphones and dogged detective work were key to the Gilgo Beach murder arrest, prosecutors say.
July 15, 2023, 6:03 AMSuffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney speaks at a press conference on July 14, 2023.they allege is responsible for the deaths of three sex workers that were among several corpses found in Gilgo Beach in Long Island, New York.
Although he is not charged in the death of another victim who was found on the beach, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, who went missing in 2007, Heuermann was named the "prime suspect" in her death, prosecutors said.Suffolk County Sheriff's Department "This discovery led to a comprehensive investigation of Defendant Heuermann which consisted of over 300 subpoenas, search warrants and other legal processes to obtain evidence," prosecutors said in the court documents.WABC
"Investigators could find no instance where Heuermann was in a separate location from these other cellphones when such a communication event occurred," prosecutors alleged in the court documents.Authorities said cell phone records and travel records showed that Heuermann's wife and children were away from New York state on vacation during the time of the victims' disappearances, according to court documents.
"This supported our decision to keep our investigative focus secret and we didn't want to give him any insight into what we were doing," Tierney said at a news conference Friday afternoon.Suffolk County District Attorney's Office A new analysis was done in 2020 on a hair sample found on Waterman's body using more advanced DNA and was able to determine that it came from a man and got more genetic information, according to Tierney.
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