For more than a decade, the Gilgo Beach serial killings baffled investigators. The break came from an unlikely source — a discarded pizza crust.
In January 2023, architect and “family man” Rex Heuermann threw away a pizza box on Fifth Avenue outside his Manhattan office. Months later, DNA from the leftover crust linked him to a 2010 murder and, later, a string of unsolved killings in a chilling case that has haunted New York’s Long Island for years.