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When reality overcomes fiction, and we get into an authentic true crime story, cases or mysteries can be solved even with pizza crusts. An ironic yet effective event that helped stop a Long Island serial killer.
In case you missed this episode, Long Island (NY) has a serial killer who pleaded not guilty to murder charges related to the murders of three women of the so-called ‘Gilgo Four‘, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello, whose remains were found near another of the victims, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, within a quarter-mile radius near Gilgo Beach in December 2010.
The suspect in the case has now been identified as Rex Heuermann, 59, according to law enforcement in charge of the case, being charged with first-degree and second-degree murder.
This case was cracked through the connection of a series of clues and evidence that led to his arrest. One of them was the pizza. Heuermann used to commute from Long Island to Penn Station to work as an architect in Manhattan. There, according to recently released court documents, a surveillance team recovered in January 2023 a pizza box -with all the remnants of the pizza crust- thrown by Heuermann into a trash can on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue.
A few months later, hair particles were found on one of the victims that directly matched the DNA detected on the pizza crust, becoming further defining evidence for authorities to order the arrest of this Long Island serial killer.