A suspect has been taken into custody more than a decade after human remains were first found on Long Island. Since 2010, eleven bodies have been found near Gilgo Beach on New York's Long Island.
Suffolk County Police Department had one suspect in custody as of Friday morning, according to CBS News.
In December 2010, police found the remains of four women on Gilgo Beach. They were discovered accidentally while police searched for another woman, Shannon Gilbert, whose remains were found in 2011.
The four women were later identified as Maureen Brainard-Barne, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello, reports CBS. They all worked as online escorts and had gone missing between 2007 and 2010.
Remains of six more people were found near the beach in 2011, according to People magazine. Last year, the Suffolk County Police Department released the audio of Gilbert's 911 call, hoping that releasing the call would help with their search.
"We are making real progress," Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison said last year.
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The New York Post reported that the suspect was Rex Heuermann, 59, of Massapequa Park, New York. The outlet reported that neighbors said Heuermann seemed like a "regular, average" man.
"He grew up here," one source told the New York Post. "I never thought he was anything but a businessman. Average guy who had a family and went to work." Neighbors told News 12 that the suspect has always lived in the area and has a wife and two kids.
