After more than a dozen long years, bereaved families were provided a whiff of relief when New York authorities arrested a 59-year-old architect who they say may be responsible for a string of killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders.
A major New York City hospital is facing allegations that hospital officials ignored a star physician’s rampant sexual abuse of patients for more than a decade.
Gilgo Beach would become the focal point of the long-stalled investigation into the discovery of 11 sets of remains, including that of a toddler, all discarded along the parkway that cuts the length of a thin strip of white sand, dirt, brambles and marshes known as Jones Beach Island. The toddler and three other victims have yet to be identified. All 10 adult victims, including the toddler’s mother, were sex workers, police said.
And there were the phone calls, including one made from Barthelemy’s cellphone on the day she was last seen alive that would be traced to the Long Island town of Massapequa, about 20 miles from where her body would later be found, not far from Heuermann’s house. Ela’s hopes were buoyed three years ago when investigators discovered new evidence: a belt embossed with two letters that might have belonged to the suspect.Nicole Haycock, one of Waterman’s longtime friends and her brother’s former girlfriend, was surprised by the announcement of Heuermann’s arrest Friday. At first, she thought it was a hoax.Seven of the 11 victims whose remains were found on Jones Beach Island were not mentioned in the charging documents for Heuermann.
Initially known as “Jane Doe No. 6,” some of her remains were first discovered in 2000 in Manorville, New York, about 50 miles east of where more of her remains were discovered on Gilgo Beach more than 10 years later. She remained unidentified until genetic testing revealed her identity just three years ago.
There have been conflicting theories about whether Shannan Gilbert, another 24-year-old sex worker, was killed or drowned in a marsh while running away from a beachfront home.
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