Long Island serial killer

 

[NBC News] ------------- More than a decade after 11 bodies were found on Long Island, and a year after he came onto officials' radar as a potential suspect, a New York architect was charged in the Gilgo Beach murders....

Rex Heuermann, 59, was arrested last Thursday evening at his Manhattan office and arraigned Friday in the deaths of three women.  He is also suspected in the disappearance and death of a fourth woman, officials said.

The grisly discoveries were made after a sex worker went missing in 2010.  As officials searched for that woman, they discovered the remains of 11 other people.... ---------------------- [end / NBC clip]

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At the suspect's home in Massapequa Park, police found that while Heuermann has permits for 92 guns, more than 200 guns were stored in the basement.

Investigation into the suspect and his activities is expanding to Las Vegas, and South Carolina.

The South Carolina connection is Rex Heuermann's younger brother, 57-year-old Craig Heuermann who lives in Chester, S.C.

Rex had bought property in the area and is said to have planned to retire there.

        The properties owned by the two brothers are barely visible from the unpaved road on which they sit, and are surrounded by no-trespassing signs.  Craig Heuermann's front gate has two signs:  one that reads, "Keep out / No trespassing," and another that reads, "No Warrant / No Entry."

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reader comments under the Washington Post article on this:

~  The reason it took so long was the ineptitude and corruption prevalent for years in the Suffolk County police.  They were more interested in pulling over black drivers than solving these murders.  Thankfully that is changing with the new commish.

~  As someone who grew up in Suffolk County, I can tell you this comment is spot on about the cops being inept and corrupt.  They're really just "good 'ol boy" cops with different accents.

~  Read up on the corrupt Suffolk County Police Commissioner James Burke.

SCPD was indeed corrupt, and it took an ex-FBI agent three years to clean up the mess.

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