Former Homicide Prosecutor Matt Murphy Talks Rex Heuermann
Veteran homicide prosecutor Matt Murphy, who was not involved in the Gilgo Beach investigation, believed Rex Heuermann may have taken deliberate precautions to avoid leaving DNA behind during the killings. Murphy compared the suspected methods to those portrayed by the fictional serial killer Dexter Morgan, theorizing that Heuermann may have worn protective clothing or a gown, used condoms and carefully cleaned crime scenes to limit the amount of nuclear DNA investigators could recover. Murphy based that theory largely on the forensic evidence available at the time, which had relied heavily…
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