Gilgo Beach

Attorneys for his wife say authorities left the family home “in shambles” while seeking evidence in the case.

DNA played a key role in Heuermann’s arrest. Prosecutors have said hair found at the crime scene matches DNA from a pizza box the suspect threw into a trash can in Manhattan.

Investigators announced Friday that after nearly three decades, the victim known as ‘Fire Island Jane Doe’ was identified as 34-year-old Karen Vergata, a presumed sex worker who went missing on Feb. 14, 1996.

Investigators say a seventh Jane Doe in the Gilgo Beach murders case has been identified as another sex worker from Manhattan.

The victim, previously known as “Jane Doe #7” or “Fire Island Jane Doe,” was identified as Karen Vergata, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said at a press conference Friday morning.

DNA played a key role in Heuermann’s arrest. Prosecutors have said hair found at the crime scene matches DNA from a pizza box the suspect threw into a trash can in Manhattan.

A New Jersey prosecutor says the murders of several sex workers on Long Island do not appear to be related to the unsolved killings of four sex workers near Atlantic City in 2006.

Rex Heuermann is charged with killing three sex workers and is the prime suspect in the killing of a fourth. News 4’s Greg Cergol reports.

Weeks after charging Long Island architect Rex Heuermann in a string of killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders, prosecutors say they’ve begun providing his lawyer with reams of evidence. That includes autopsy findings, DNA reports and crime scene photos. Suffolk County prosecutors spoke during a brief court hearing Tuesday. District Attorney Ray Tierney said that’s a fraction of the...

The family of a Manhattan architect charged in the Gilgo Beach serial killings is “enduring a profound and indescribable catastrophe,” an attorney for his estranged wife said as she begged for privacy and “normalcy.”

The case against accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann will be prosecuted by Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney, his office confirmed. The announcement that Tierney would be the lead prosecutor in the Long Island murder case came as a surprise — it’s reportedly the first time the district attorney has prosecuted a case himself since taking the position…

After 12 long days, investigators left the home of Rex Heuermann, the man accused of killing three women. Greg Cergol reports.

Investigators finished with their digging up of the backyard of alleged serial killer Rex Heuermann after police searched the home in connection to the Gilgo Beach case — and walked away with what they described as a “massive amount” of potential evidence.

As the search for evidence continues in the alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer case, investigators were seen digging up the backyard of the suspect’s Long Island home.

Law enforcement officers investigating the Gilgo Beach murders have begun digging in the backyard of suspect Rex Heuermann. Myles Miller reports.

As police comb through the home of a man charged in a string of serial killings in New York, one witness is frustrated it took so long to solve the crime.

In the winter of 2010, shortly after police discovered the remains of his roommate and three other women buried on a remote stretch of Long Island shoreline, Dave Schaller provided detectives with a description of the person he believed to be the killer. More crucially, Schaller told them about his truck. The man they were looking for was a towering,…

Days after police nabbed the man suspected of killing multiple women and dumping their bodies in the Gilgo Beach area of Long Island, police are now searching for more possible clues and evidence related to the serial slayings.

A lawyer for Asa Ellerup said a summons and complaint had been filed and declined further comment.

The suspect in the Gilgo Beach serial killings had a cache of more than 200 guns in a vault inside his home, the Suffolk County police commissioner said.