Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect, was charged with the murders of three women in New York more than a decade ago and leaving their bodies near a Long Island beach
Eleven sets of human remains were found in 2010 and 2011 along an isolated stretch of Gilgo Beach on an Atlantic barrier island about 40 miles east of New York City.
Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney told reporters Rex A. Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect who lived a 20-minute drive from Gilgo Beach in Massapequa Park, faced three counts each of murder in the first and second degree. Tierney's office requested in a bail application on Friday that Heuermann be remanded into custody without bail, noting that if convicted of the charges, Heuermann faces multiple sentences of life in prison without parole.
Heuermann used a burner cellphone to contact the three women, who were in their 20s and advertised themselves as sex workers, and bound them with belts or tape before wrapping some of the bodies in a burlap-type material, according to the application.
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