Gilgo Seaside slayings suspect Rex Heuermann ID’d a yr in the past after DNA match: sources

The suspected serial killer arrested over the notorious Gilgo Beach murders in Lengthy Island had been pinned as an individual of curiosity greater than a yr in the past after a DNA match, sources instructed The Put up Friday.

Rex Heuermann, 59, was taken into custody over the slayings of 4 girls who have been discovered wrapped in burlap and dumped inside days of one another in late 2010, a number of sources stated.

His arrest marks the fruits of what seems to be a gradual and methodical probe by investigators, which noticed them finally arrest him at his workplace in New York Metropolis Thursday night, the police stated.

Heuermann was taken in on the workplaces of his firm, RH Structure, in midtown.

The constructing was nonetheless swarmed with police Friday together with a New York State Police field truck, two Suffolk Police Freeway Patrol vehicles, a New York State trooper automotive and a Suffolk County authorities van.

Sources on the scene instructed The Put up Suffolk County crime labs had been contained in the workplace constructing, looking them.

Investigators haven’t but revealed when, or how, Heuermann first got here onto their radar amid the long-running homicide probe.

It additionally wasn’t instantly clear the place the DNA was obtained from to construct the suspect’s profile.

State and Suffolk County police have additionally been at Heuermann’s dwelling for the reason that early hours. A cooler was seized from Heuermann’s run-down dwelling by authorities within the wake of his arrest, based on one supply, although it wasn’t instantly clear the way it was linked to the investigation.

Heuermann’s arrest is believed to solely be tied to the so-called “Gilgo 4” girls — and never the opposite six our bodies that have been discovered close by and eyed as presumably being linked, sources stated.

Fears of a serial killer first emerged when the physique of 24-year-old Melissa Barthelemy was found alongside Ocean Parkway on Dec. 11, 2010.

The remains of three other women — Megan Waterman, 22, Amber Lynn Costello, 27, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25 — have been discovered within the following days.

They have been all discovered wrapped in burlap about one-tenth of a mile aside from one another on the seaside.

The arrest comes after Suffolk County’s new police commissioner created a particular Gilgo Seaside Murder Investigation Job Drive in February final yr to probe the decade-old case.

It included assist from state police, native sheriffs, the Suffolk County District Legal professional’s Workplace and the FBI.