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RIVERHEAD, N.Y. -- Suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann returned to court Wednesday on Long Island. The 61-year-old is charged with the murders of seven women dating back to the 1990s.

NEW YORK — A judge on Wednesday scheduled hearings to hear arguments from lawyers who want accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann to receive five separate trials. Judge Timothy Mazzei will ...

A judge on Wednesday scheduled hearings to hear arguments from lawyers who want accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann to receive five separate trials. Judge Timothy Mazzei will also hear ...

If approved, it would group the first three victims of the original Gilgo Four - Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy and Amber Costello - into one case. There would then be separate trials for the ...

Suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann was charged with a seventh murder. Valerie Mack vanished back in 2000, and Heuermann was named a suspect in her death in June after prosecutors ...

open image in gallery Suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann stood next to his attorney Michael Brown in a Riverhead courtroom on Long Island Wednesday The defense is seeking one trial ...

The New York architect facing murder charges in a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach killings is challenging the DNA evidence against him and seeking separate trials in the sprawling case.

In 2010 and 2011, the bodies of 11 people were found on or near Gilgo Beach. Heuermann’s lawyer, Michael Brown, said it is unfair to put everything under the umbrella of a single trial.

Rex Heuermann, accused in a string of Long Island deaths known as the Gilgo Beach killings, stands with his lawyer Michael Brown, at Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, N.Y. on Wednesday ...