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Gilgo Seaside serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann has been charged with the homicide of a seventh girl.

The New Yorkarchitect who’s already going through homicide costs in a string of deaths often known as the Gilgo Seaside killings, was charged on Tuesday with killing Valerie Mack.

Mack, 24, had been working as an escort in Philadelphia and was final seen by her household in 2000 in New Jersey. Her stays have been discovered on Lengthy Island the identical yr.

Heuermann was arrested in July 2023 and charged with the murders of the Gilgo 4: Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Costello, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes. Earlier this yr, he was additionally charged with the murders of Jessica Taylor and Sandra Costilla.

The investigation into the Gilgo Seaside killings dates again to 2010, when police trying to find a lacking girl discovered 10 units of human stays within the scrub alongside a barrier island parkway, prompting fears of a serial killer.

Through the years, investigators used DNA evaluation and different clues to determine the victims, lots of whom have been intercourse staff. In some circumstances, they related them to stays discovered elsewhere on Lengthy Island years earlier. Police additionally started reexamining different unsolved killings of girls discovered useless on Lengthy Island.

Heuermann, who lived together with his spouse and two youngsters in Massapequa Park on Lengthy Island and commuted to a Manhattan structure workplace, was arrested on July 13, 2023. He has pleaded not responsible to all costs.