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DNA from pizza crust linked Gilgo Beach murders suspect to victim, court documents say

Headline from CBS News

A surveillance team recovered a pizza box thrown by Heuermann into a garbage can on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, prosecutors say.

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7 articles, oldest first.

  1. Fox News

    Gilgo Beach murders: Pizza box DNA in Manhattan led police to Long Island serial killing suspect Rex Heuermann (opens Fox News)

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    New York police arrested Long Island Gilgo Beach serial murder suspect Rex Heuermann with the help of DNA on a pizza box, officials wrote in a bail application.

  2. CBS News

    DNA from pizza crust linked Gilgo Beach murders suspect to victim, court documents say (opens CBS News)

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    A surveillance team recovered a pizza box thrown by Heuermann into a garbage can on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, prosecutors say.

  3. NBC New York

    How leftover pizza crust linked an architect to Gilgo Beach serial killings (opens NBC New York)

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    A discarded pizza box, thrown into a 5th Avenue trash can in the middle of Manhattan, would eventually help investigators link Rex Heuermann to DNA evidence collected from the body of a Gilgo Beach victim killed more than 10 years ago.

  4. Al Jazeera

    DNA from pizza crust leads to arrest in US Gilgo Beach murders (opens Al Jazeera)

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    Prosecutors have charged architect Rex Heuermann with murder in three of the 11 unsolved deaths on Long Island.

  5. The Daily Caller

    REPORT: Pizza Crust Led Police To Arrest Alleged Serial Killer (opens The Daily Caller)

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    A pizza box allegedly linked a Long Island man to the serial murders of three women whose remains were found on Gilgo Beach back in 2010.

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