The Suffolk County police found 10 bodies while searching for a 24-year-old aspiring actress who had disappeared in 2010. No arrest was made in connection with the killings until now.
An architect who had lived most of his life in Nassau County and worked in Manhattan was arrested on Thursday night in connection with a series of killings of women near Gilgo Beach on Long Island’s South Shore. The case terrified residents and had remained unsolved for more than a decade.
Here are the events that led up to the arrest of the architect, Rex Heuermann:
MAY 1, 2010Shannan Gilbert disappears.
Ms. Gilbert, 24, was an aspiring actress from Jersey City, N.J., who worked as an escort. She was last seen on May 1 after a job in Oak Beach, a gated community several miles from Gilgo Beach.
DEC. 11 to 13, 2010Four bodies are found along Ocean Parkway.
While searching for Ms. Gilbert’s body, the Suffolk County police discovered four bodies over three days along Ocean Parkway between Gilgo Beach and Cedar Beach, nearby. The bodies were spread over about a quarter mile, each roughly 500 feet apart.
DEC. 14, 2010Police suggest a serial killer may have been behind the deaths.
Richard Dormer, the commissioner of the Suffolk County Police Department, said at a news conference that it was not “a coincidence that four bodies turned up in the same location,” adding that “it appears as though somebody targeted these individuals and dumped them.
