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It’s taken 13 years but Suffolk County Police finally say they’ve caught the serial killer who dumped his victims along the shores of Gilgo Beach – thanks to a pimp’s tip about his pickup truck, a stash of burner phones, his wife’s hair and a pizza crust. Rachel Sharp reports

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Anthony Carter calls architect Rex Heuermann, charged with murders of three women in Gilgo Beach in 2010, a ‘demon’

Storage unit is just two miles from the married father-of-two’s home in Massapequa Park which investigators have been combing for evidence – and possible trophies and body parts – linking him to the slayings

Follow the latest news on the Gilgo Beach murders as police continue to search for evidence tying Rex Heuermann to the killings

Families of several women who were slain and dumped along the coastline of New York's Long Island are trying to find closure after the capture of a man who authorities say is responsible

NEW YORK — A Long Island pimp’s tip, coupled with chilling web searches and pizza crust DNA, steered authorities to serial killing suspect Rex Heuermann before his arrest in the notorious Gilgo Beach murders ended years of mystery in the long-cold case.

DNA results came back on 12 June with a 99.96 per cent degree of accuracy

Arrest of architect Rex Heuermann, accused of murder of three women, brings relief and fear to residents of Massapequa Park