Rex Heuermann Long Island Serial Killer Compulsively Track His Victims And Family Members, Police Says

59 years old suspect Rex Heuermann a New York Architect was finally caught as the Long Island Serial Killer and New York authorities said that he has been “compulsively” searching for photos of his victims and their family members.

Rex Heuermann Long Island Serial Killer Compulsively Track His Victims And Family Members, Police Says (PHOTO: New York Post)

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Friday, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said that Rex  Heuermann, 59, used an online account to repeatedly view images of his alleged victims and their family members.

The South Arkansas Sun reported that Rex  Heuermann allegedly keeps his close attention to each case of his victims and searched on the Internet about how the investigation was going.

In addition, Tierney also claimed that Rex  Heuermann compulsively keeps searching for pictures of his victims, as well as his victims’ relatives, their sisters, and their children, Heuermann was keeping their pictures and trying to locate those people.

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Rex Heuermann a New York architect who was currently charged was charged by a grand jury Friday with six counts of murder that link to the deaths of Gilgo Four women according to the Suffolk County District Attorney.

NBC News reported that one key to the arrest of the suspect in the Gilgo Beach murders is Rex Heuermann discarded pizza crust food that led authorities to identify a California serial killer more than a decade ago.

In January, according to a bail application filed in the case, after officials began investigating Rex Heuermann, detectives caught him throwing a pizza box into a trash can on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.  The crust inside was examined by two forensic crime laboratories, it states.

The second lab determined that DNA on a swab of crust matched the mitochondrial DNA profile of male hair seen on burlap used to restrain and transport victim Megan Waterman.

 Tierney stated that today the familial DNA was utilized to link Heuermann to the other DNA evidence.

The discarded pizza was linked to a high-profile serial killer prosecution in 2010 when Los Angeles authorities revealed a discarded crust was used to extract DNA.

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