Serial Killings of Women Near Gilgo Beach:Suspect Arrested.

Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect who lives in Nassau County, was charged with killing three women and is the “prime suspect” in the death of a fourth woman.The bodies were unearthed near remote Gilgo Beach on Long Island’s South Shore more than a decade ago, terrifying residents and leaving the victims’ families bereft. In all, the remains of nine women, a man and a toddler were discovered.

Since then, investigators have tried to determine whether the killings had been committed by one person or by multiple attackers. But for more than a decade the cases went unsolved.

Then Rex Heuermann, an architect who had lived most of his life in Nassau County and worked in Manhattan, was taken into custody on Thursday, accused of killing three women and is suspected in the murder of a fourth. Before his arrest, investigators had sifted through clues as simple as a monogrammed belt wrapped around one of the victims and as sophisticated as the electronic signals of disposable mobile phones.Then, at that point, Rex Heuermann, a planner who had lived the majority of his life in Nassau Region and worked in Manhattan, was arrested on Thursday, blamed for killing three ladies and is associated in the homicide with a fourth. Before his capture, specialists had filtered through pieces of information as basic as a monogrammed belt folded over one of the people in question and as refined as the electronic signs of expendable cell phones.

Mr. Heuermann was accused of three counts of first degree murder and three includes of second degree murder in the killings of Golden Lynn Costello, Megan Waterman and Melissa Barthelemy, whose bodies were found enclosed by hunting disguise burlap inside a quarter mile of one another on a stretch of ocean side. All had been in their 20s, dainty and filling in as escorts. They vanished somewhere in the range of 2009 and 2010.