Rex Heuermann is identified as Long Island Serial Killer suspect by source after 'Gilgo Beach murderer's arrest' | The Sun

THE man arrested as the suspected Long Island Serial Killer has been identified as 59-year-old architect Rex Heuermann.

A detective confirmed the name to The U.S. Sun on Friday following the raid on a property on Long Island.

Heuermann is the founder and principal of RH Consultants & Associates, LLC, registered to the home in Massapequa Park where the arrest took place.

He is described on an online profile as having over 30 years of experience and having worked with major clients including American Airlines.

Heuermann is due to appear in Riverhead Criminal Court later on Friday where an indictment will be unsealed.

Cops released Heuermann's mugshot on Friday morning ahead of his court appearance.

A source told The U.S. Sun that cops had been on to him "for a while" before making the arrest.

Cops will hold a news conference at 4pm to give an update on the case.

Police swarmed an address in Massapequa Park close to where the suspected killings took place late on Thursday night.

An eyewitness told The U.S. Sun that officers had been at the home "all night."

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A police drone was spotted flying over the house on Friday morning.

Cops have been hunting for the suspected killer since 2010 after the body of Melissa Barthelemy, 24, was found near Gilgo Beach, about a half-hour drive from the home.

On December 11, 2010, a Suffolk County Police Officer and sniffer dog discovered her skeletal remains in the brush just off Ocean Parkway.

She was a sex worker who had disappeared from the Bronx the previous year.

The remains of three other women were found nearby in the following days.

Megan Waterman, 22, Amber Lynn Costello, 27, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, were all discovered within the same stretch of Gilgo Beach in 2011, wrapped in burlap.

By spring 2011, the number of suspected victims of the "Long Island Serial Killer" had climbed to 10 after the remains of a further four women, an unidentified man, and a toddler were found.

Cops also found the remains of 24-year-old New Jersey sex worker Shannan Gilbert, who disappeared after leaving a client's house close to Gilgo Beach in 2010.

She rang 911 for help after saying she feared for her life and was never seen alive again.

The panicked young woman was heard banging on doors and screaming "They're trying to kill me," in a chilling 911 call that was never released publicly.

In the call made at 4.51am on May 1, as she left the house on foot, Gilbert repeatedly told dispatchers: "There's somebody after me."

She asked the dispatcher: "Can you trace where I am?" but they were unable to, and she was never seen alive again.

Gilbert's late mother and the family attorney, John Ray, maintained that she was being targeted by the serial killer when she died.

But former chief of detectives at the time of the disappearances, Dominick Varrone, said that the circumstances surrounding her death don't match those of the other victims.

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Last year, cops stepped up their investigation into the case, with the FBI coming in along with state and local police forces to try and solve the murders.

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