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Suspect arrested in Gilgo Beach serial killings repeatedly searched updates in probe

A man connected to the Long Island murders that inspired the 2020 Netflix film Lost Girls was arrested in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday night.
People watch Friday in in Massapequa Park, N.Y., as law enforcement officials investigate the home of a suspect arrested in the unsolved Gilgo Beach killings.

Suffolk County authorities in New York have arrested a man in connection with a series of unsolved murders more than a decade ago that made national headlines and inspired the 2020 Netflix film Lost Girls.

The suspect, Rex Heuermann, was arrested in midtown Manhattan in New York City on Thursday night. The arrest was made by the Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation Task Force, named

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