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Last month on a random Thursday, people here in New York got the kind of news it's hard to turn

away from. This is Breaking News from Channel 7, I witness news. And we are following breaking news,

a major break in a co-case that'll have residents shaken for more than 12 years, a suspect.

Now under arrest and connection to the unsolved murders on Long Island known

as the Gilgo Beach murders. We have live team coverage of this breaking story.

There'd been an arrest in a 12-year-old cold case, a series of shocking murders in suburban

Long Island. All right, thank you now to the stunning arrest in the Gilgo Beach murders.

59 police finally took a suspect into custody. His name, Rex Heurman.

Rex Heurman is a 59-year-old architect, a guy who seemed to live an ordinary commuters life,

who's now accused of spending years relentlessly stalking and murdering women who are making their

living as escorts. He left their bodies by the side of a highway, almost as if the victims were

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