Overview

• Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney announced the investigation into the Gilgo Beach murders is complete, transitioning the case to pretrial and trial phases.
• Rex Heuermann, 61, is charged with the murders of seven women, whose remains were found on Long Island between 1993 and 2011.
• A pretrial hearing on March 28 will determine the admissibility of DNA evidence linking Heuermann to six of the victims, which his defense claims is scientifically unreliable.
• Heuermann's defense team has requested separate trials for the seven murder charges, arguing that combining them could unfairly influence the jury.
• Prosecutors argue that physical evidence, victimology, and Heuermann's planning documents connect the cases, supporting a single trial.