Rex Heuermann was charged Friday with killing Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello over a decade ago.
known as the Gilgo Beach murders after charging an architect in the deaths of three of the 11 victims.
Their bodies were bound and hidden in thick underbrush along a remote beach highway across the bay from the Massapequa Park community where Heuermann has lived all his life. Investigators have said it’s unlikely just one person killed all the victims. Heuermann, 59, was arrested late Thursday, a year and a half after authorities formed an interagency task force with investigators from the FBI, as well as state and local police departments, aimed at solving the case. He was charged Friday.
“They never stopped working and will continue to work tirelessly until we bring justice to all the families involved,” Suffolk County police Commissioner Rodney Harrison said.
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