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Authorities in Long Island, New York, arrested a suspect in the Gilgo Beach killings years after the discovery of 11 sets of human remains.

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Detectives said a key break in the case against the suspect, Rex Heuermann, 59, came when they matched DNA from a pizza he ate to a male hair found on the one of the woman’s remains.

The bodies of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello were found wrapped in burlap days apart from each other in 2010. Another woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, was also found wrapped in burlap at the time. He has not been charged with her murder, but he is the "prime suspect in her death," authorities said Friday.

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