The man facing murder charges in a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach killings was charged on Tuesday in the death of a seventh woman, The Associated Press reports.
Rex Heuermann was charged with killing Valerie Mack, whose remains were first found on Long Island in 2000. Mack, 24, had been working as an escort in Philadelphia and was last seen by her family that year in New Jersey.
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Mack’s partial skeletal remains were first found in Manorville, New York, in 2000, about 50 miles east of where more of her remains were discovered on Gilgo Beach more than 10 years later. They were unidentified until genetic testing revealed Mack’s identity in 2020.
Human hair found with Mack’s remains was sent for testing earlier this year and found to be a likely match with the genetic profile of Heuermann’s daughter, prosecutors said in court papers. His daughter is not accused of any wrongdoing and would have been three or four years old when Mack died.