18 July 2023

How DNA, Cellphone Data, and More Solved a 10-year-old Cold Case

From Long Island. Burner phones. Pizza crust. DNA on burlap. A New York architect was charged with killing 3 women in Gilgo Beach serial killings cold case

During the initial examination of one of the victims’ skeletal remains and materials discovered in the grave, the Suffolk County Crime Laboratory recovered a male hair from the “bottom of the burlap” the killer used to wrap her body, according to the bail application.

A surveillance team later gathered a swab of Heuermann’s DNA from leftover crust in a pizza box he threw in the trash, the district attorney said.

Click thru for the details. It is a fairly interesting chain of events. It included taunting the victims' families using burner cellphones. But he wasn't as smart as he thought, apparently. Alegedly. (See the disclaimer about "innocent until proved guilty in a court of law" in the sidebar.)

Hat tip to The Other McCain: New York Architect Art Vandelay Denies Role in Long Island Serial Killer Case. He has a shorter summary of the events leading up to the arrest.

As soon as I heard that the suspect arrested in the long-unsolved murders of three women in the Long Island community of Gilgo Beach was an architect, I immediately thought of George Costanza in Seinfeld pretending to be an architect named “Art Vandelay.” This just shows what my sick sense of humor, I suppose

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