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Long Island police identify ‘Fire Island Jane Doe' as Karen Vergata in Gilgo Beach case
The victim, previously known as “Jane Doe #7” or “Fire Island Jane Doe,” was identified as Karen Vergata, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said at a press conference Friday morning.
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Prosecutors in Gilgo Beach killings are giving Rex Heuermann's defense a vast trove of evidence
Weeks after charging Long Island architect Rex Heuermann in a string of killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders, prosecutors say they’ve begun providing his lawyer with reams of evidence. That includes autopsy findings, DNA reports and crime scene photos. Suffolk County prosecutors spoke during a brief court hearing Tuesday. District Attorney Ray Tierney said that’s a fraction of the...
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Who is Rex Heuermann, the man arrested in connection to Gilgo Beach murders?
A suspect has been taken into custody on New York’s Long Island in connection with a long-unsolved string of killings, known as the Gilgo Beach murders. That’s according to a law enforcement official who spoke to The Associated Press on Friday. The deaths of 11 people whose remains were found in 2010 and 2011 along a New York Beach Highway...