

These details only paint a darker picture of the suspected serial killer. Heuermann allegedly used Melissa Barthelemy's cellphone to torment her family with chilling taunting calls after she disappeared in 2007. All four victims were sex workers who met their end while Heuermann's family was away from home more than a decade ago. DNA testing on trash bottles collected outside Heuermann's Massapequa Park residence tied his wife to female hairs found on three of the victims - Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Amber Costello, and Megan Waterman.

The DNA extracted from the pizza matched a male hair found on the burlap that wrapped the lifeless body of Megan Waterman, one of the victims discovered near Gilgo Beach in December 2010.īut the connections don't end there.

The breakthrough came when a surveillance team nabbed a crucial piece of evidence, a crust of pizza tossed into a Manhattan trash can near Bryant Park on January 26th. Long Island's 13-year hunt for the Gilgo Beach serial killer ends as DNA evidence links Manhattan architect Rex Heuermann to the murders of four sex workers.(Bonjour Realty) Prosecutors dropped the bombshell last Friday, claiming that DNA evidence directly links Heuermann to the killings that terrorized the region for over a decade. The 13-year hunt for Long Island's infamous Gilgo Beach serial killer has reached its end with the revelation that Manhattan architect Rex Heuermann may be the man behind the murders.
