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A timeline of the investigation of the Gilgo Beach killings

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In 2010 , police searching for a missing woman began finding 10 sets of human remains in the scrub along a barrier island parkway near New York's Gilgo Beach .

Police almost immediately feared some were left by a serial killer.

Over the years , investigators used DNA analysis and other clues to identify the victims, many of whom were sex workers.

In some cases, they were able to connect them to remains found elsewhere on Long Island years earlier .

Prosecutors have now charged a Long Island architect, Rex Heuermann , in seven killings.

Investigators estimate he died five to 10 years earlier and was in his late teens or early 20s .

Key evidence in the case is mobile phone location data suggesting that Heuermann and the women were in the same places at some of the same times, and traces of DNA found on the remains.

Investigators conduct a new search of a wooded area in Manorville where Taylor and Mack 's remains were discovered more than a decade earlier .

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78

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formal

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English

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