Investigators had been wrestling with the seemingly unsolvable Gilgo Beach crimes. But last year, Suffolk County’s new police commissioner took over the dormant search and formed a new team of detectives to track down the killer.
who had been living quietly in the Nassau County town of Massapequa Park and commuting regularly to his office in Manhattan, appeared before a Long Island judge to face murder charges in the deaths of three of the women.
The fact that a 2-year-old girl and a young Asian man were also found at Gilgo Beach in 2010 and 2011 only deepened the mystery and widened the investigation.Spencer Platt / Getty Images file Law enforcement officials investigate the home of a suspect arrested in the Gilgo Beach killings Friday in Massapequa Park, N.Y.But the case was marked from the start by apparent missteps and accusations that investigators were dragging their feet because of a cultural bias against sex workers.
Clockwise from top left, Shannan Gilbert, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Melissa Barthelemy, Valerie Mack, Amber Lynn Costello and Megan Waterman.A veteran Suffolk County Police Department officer named John Mallia and his search dog, Blue, came across “a set of human remains,” according to a document released Friday in which investigators laid out their arguments for why Heuermann should be denied bail., who was last seen alive in July 2009.
Heuermann was charged Friday in the deaths of Barthelemy, Waterman and Costello but not Brainard-Barnes or Shannan Gilbert.
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