I am really surprised nobody posted this, especially the NYC area guys on the board. This had been a 13 year old cold case involving killings of sex workers that happened in a spree back in 2009-2010. It's really, really fascinating how LE caught this guy. He was using burner phones but also got sloppy by using the victim's phones and also sloppy leaving DNA evidence (including his wife's) in burlap sacks he used to bury the victims. Also did over 200 internet searches on the status of the investigation. Not sure how he and his counsel plan on explaining that one as it goes way beyond normal curiousity:
Serial Killer of Long Island Sex Workers Arrested in NYC
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Videos of suspect's arrest in NYC Thursday afternoon as he left work and strolled down 5th Avenue near 36th Street (near Empire State Building):
www.nbcnewyork.com
www.dailymail.co.uk
Exclusive video shows moments before Gilgo Beach suspect arrest in NYC
Exclusive video shows Rex Heurmann calmly stroll down Fifth Avenue and East 36th Street with a bag over his shoulder, unaware he was being followed by police detectives who were about to arrest him in the infamous Gilgo Beach murders, a decade-long mystery. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.
www.nbcnewyork.com
Video shows Long Island serial killer suspect taken into custody
The moment that plain clothes NYPD officers apprehended serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann on a crowded Midtown Manhattan street was caught on camera.
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It wasn't enough for the killer to take the lives of these women. He was also demented enough to taunt some of their loved ones about how he killed and assaulted one of the women. I hope they got the right guy so he can get assaulted behind bars too. Human filth.
I agree and he would have death penalty the kind that was applied in England in 15th century ! Or crucification like Roman Empire did.
Suspect compulsively searched for photos of victims and their families online:
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people.com
Police Say Accused Long Island Serial Killer Rex Heuermann Kept Track of His Victims' Families
Police say accused Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann, who was taken into custody on Thursday, kept track of his victims' families.
It seems like he may be tied to many other murders of many other sex workers who have disappeared going back to 2000:
abcnews.go.com
Gilgo Beach murders: What questions remain following Rex Heuermann's arrest?
Heuermann has been charged with the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello, and been called the prime suspect in the death of a fourth woman.
abcnews.go.com
I can get behind that sort of death penalty: the kind where people suffer for extended periods of time before they expire. The electric chair or lethal injection is too kind for people like this guy.
That's why I'm generally against the death penalty: death happens only once. But if you keep someone alive and beat him within an inch of his life, let him recuperate then do it all over again and throw in the occasional prison rape in there, that's a fate worse than death--and that's precisely the sort of inhumane treatment heartless bastards like this dude needs.
"That day came – finally – years after a bestselling nonfiction book, a Netflix drama, and a podcast about a long-running murder mystery that made national headlines and become known as the Gilgo Beach killings."
I guess Netflix is going to make the season finale? big $$$ in that for sure.
"A series of “taunting” calls in which a male caller admitted killing and sexually assaulting Barthelemy were made from her phone to her family members from the vicinity of Heuermann’s midtown Manhattan office during the summer of 2009, according to the bail application."
A "male" caller but was it this Heuermann dude? Any recordings and voice recognition?
"Heuermann also used burner phones to contact sex workers or massage parlors, the bail application said. And he created false names for an email account used to search for “sex workers, sadistic, torture-related pornography and child pornography,” the bail application said."
"One fictitious email account was used to send selfies “to solicit and arrange for sexual activity"
This is very common these days for hiding ones identity online. People curious always searching sketchy crap. Some of us do that here hehe.
"200 searches about serial killers and articles about the task force investigating the Gilgo Beach killings, the bail application said."
Yea the whole community in panic probably had hundreds searches each related to this crime, internet google detectives.
Especially after the Netflix series.
Heuermann and his wife's hair on or near bodies identified.
If Heuermann had physical contact for sex services inevitably hair will be transferred including by chance wife's hair.
I see girls and a week later I find strands of black long hair around my place and I have short dirty brown hair.
Hair can easily be transferred or planted by another party.
"investigators found that a first-generation Chevrolet Avalanche – the same type of truck a witness believed to have been driven by Costello’s killer – registered to Heuermann at the time of the murders"
No mention of color by witness?
I think I saw five chevy Avalanches today.
A lot of clients see girls in their vehicles.
Accused Gilgo Beach murderer had 'arsenal' of up to 300 guns stashed in vault at Long Island home
300 guns?? Any victims shot?"
"Police ultimately linked Heuermann to the crimes through tips from witnesses — including the pimp of one of the victims — and DNA pulled from a discarded pizza crust that tied him to the crime scene."
Yea I could see a provider then my hair gets mixed in her stuff then a day later she gets murdered then buried. Now I am suspect if they find my discarded pizza?
Sketchy stuff. Was he framed? Mafia Pimps covering for their own dirty deeds?
Pimp being investigated?
Stretches of lone roads often used as criminal disposal burial grounds.
Being right next to a beach why not do like Dexter, sink bodies into the water.
Heuermann did not have a boat?
I guess with this highly popularized crime story providers will be asking more for ID, references, social media profiles, etc before an encounter in the future.
More paranoia.
Maybe AI surveillance nailed him and the world is not ready for that story?
By coincidence nice article of AI systems in New York area.
I am positive this was used.
AI Watches Millions Of Cars. Tells Cops If Driving Like Criminal...
I guess Netflix is going to make the season finale? big $$$ in that for sure.
"A series of “taunting” calls in which a male caller admitted killing and sexually assaulting Barthelemy were made from her phone to her family members from the vicinity of Heuermann’s midtown Manhattan office during the summer of 2009, according to the bail application."
A "male" caller but was it this Heuermann dude? Any recordings and voice recognition?
"Heuermann also used burner phones to contact sex workers or massage parlors, the bail application said. And he created false names for an email account used to search for “sex workers, sadistic, torture-related pornography and child pornography,” the bail application said."
"One fictitious email account was used to send selfies “to solicit and arrange for sexual activity"
This is very common these days for hiding ones identity online. People curious always searching sketchy crap. Some of us do that here hehe.
"200 searches about serial killers and articles about the task force investigating the Gilgo Beach killings, the bail application said."
Yea the whole community in panic probably had hundreds searches each related to this crime, internet google detectives.
Especially after the Netflix series.
Heuermann and his wife's hair on or near bodies identified.
If Heuermann had physical contact for sex services inevitably hair will be transferred including by chance wife's hair.
I see girls and a week later I find strands of black long hair around my place and I have short dirty brown hair.
Hair can easily be transferred or planted by another party.
"investigators found that a first-generation Chevrolet Avalanche – the same type of truck a witness believed to have been driven by Costello’s killer – registered to Heuermann at the time of the murders"
No mention of color by witness?
I think I saw five chevy Avalanches today.
A lot of clients see girls in their vehicles.
Accused Gilgo Beach murderer had 'arsenal' of up to 300 guns stashed in vault at Long Island home
300 guns?? Any victims shot?"
"Police ultimately linked Heuermann to the crimes through tips from witnesses — including the pimp of one of the victims — and DNA pulled from a discarded pizza crust that tied him to the crime scene."
Yea I could see a provider then my hair gets mixed in her stuff then a day later she gets murdered then buried. Now I am suspect if they find my discarded pizza?
Sketchy stuff. Was he framed? Mafia Pimps covering for their own dirty deeds?
Pimp being investigated?
Stretches of lone roads often used as criminal disposal burial grounds.
Being right next to a beach why not do like Dexter, sink bodies into the water.
Heuermann did not have a boat?
I guess with this highly popularized crime story providers will be asking more for ID, references, social media profiles, etc before an encounter in the future.
More paranoia.
Maybe AI surveillance nailed him and the world is not ready for that story?
By coincidence nice article of AI systems in New York area.
I am positive this was used.
AI Watches Millions Of Cars. Tells Cops If Driving Like Criminal...
Local sex workers have been cooperating with police in this investigation:
www.yahoo.com
Sex Workers Are Coming Forward About Alleged Encounters with Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Suspect Rex Heuermann
Sex workers are coming forward to detail their alleged encounters with murder suspect Rex Heuermann, who's been charged with killing three woman considered to be among the Gilgo Beach victims whose bodies were found along the Long Island shore. Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon told WCBS...
