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True crime stories you missed this week: July 10-14, 2023
By Fox News Staff
Published July 15, 2023
Who is Rex Heuermann, suspect arrested in the Gilgo beach murders?
New York authorities on Friday named Rex Heuermann as the suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer.
Heuermann, 59, is accused of killing four women whose bodies were discovered along a suburban Long Island beach highway between 2010 and 2011. He is charged with three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of second-degree murder in connection with the murders of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello.
Heuermann is a married father of two and architect living on Long Island and working in Manhattan at his firm, RH Consultants & Associates.
Rex Heuermann is led into Arthur M. Cromarty Criminal Complex in Riverhead, New York, on Friday. The 59-year-old is being charged with three counts of murder in relation to the deaths of victims found on Gilgo Beach. (Matt Agudo/Splash for Fox News Digital)
Serial Boston rape suspect's lawyer says government 'piling' unsolved sexual assault cases on client
Serial Boston rape suspect Matthew Nilo's attorney on Thursday said the government is "piling" sexual assault cases against his client in an attempt to solve them.
His comments came after a pre-trial conference in Suffolk County for Nilo in which his attorney suggested the suspect would be posting a $50,000 bail for seven sexual assault charges filed against him in June, which is on top of the $500,000 bail he posted last month for seven other sexual assault charges filed against him in May.
"They have not turned over any discovery from the new allegations, no police reports. I think they're trying to solve some unresolved cases, and I think the government might be piling on just trying to claim that Mr. Nilo committed these crimes," Nilo's attorney, Joseph Cataldo, told reporters outside the court.
Matthew Nilo and fiancée Laura Griffin walk through the lobby of Suffolk County Court in Boston on Thursday. Nilo is being released on bail as he faces more sexual assault charges that stem back to 2007. (Julia Bonavita / Fox News Digital)
Fugitive murder suspect seen on Ring camera lighting car on fire one day after murder
Ring doorbell camera video shows fugitive murder suspect Michael Charles Burham on a woman's front porch hours after police in New York say he gunned down Kala Hodgkin in May — before allegedly torching her car in the driveway and leaving behind a small fire extinguisher.
Burham was subsequently charged with kidnapping a Pennsylvania couple and leading police on a days-long manhunt that ended in rural South Carolina — only to escape jail last week and vanish into the woods again on the border of Pennsylvania and New York.
Michael Burham is accused of shooting Kala Hodgkin to death in New York before lighting another woman's car on fire and then kidnapping a Pennsylvania couple, according to police. He escaped custody Thursday night, prompting a new manhunt. (Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office | Kala Hodgkin / Facebook)
Kentucky bone collector sold dead friends' skulls nationwide over Facebook, FBI says
A Kentucky man allegedly sold stolen human skulls and other body parts over Facebook to customers around the country and slept with a head in his bed, the FBI says.
Mount Washington, Kentucky, resident James Nott, using a profile under the name "William Burke," was allegedly advertising human skulls for sale as recently as June, federal court filings revealed this week.
The FBI learned of Nott, 40, through its investigation into an illicit ring of human body parts traders linked to Harvard Medical School through its former morgue manager, Cedric Lodge, according to an affidavit filed in the Western District of Kentucky.
James Nott poses for a mug shot; inset: a skull he allegedly listed for sale on Facebook. (Bullitt County Sheriff's Office | Inset: FBI)
Dentist accused of fatally poisoning wife with cyanide-laced shakes lied about his marital status: mistress
The woman who was dating a Colorado dentist when he allegedly poisoned his wife with cyanide-laced protein shakes to be with her said he had lied about his marriage.
In her first interview, Karin Cain, an Austin-based orthodontist, told ABC News that James Toliver Craig, 45, had duped her.
"If I had known what was true, I would not have been with this person," Cain said. "I didn't willingly have a relationship with someone who was in a marriage."
The clip aired Wednesday morning, the same day that Craig was due in Arapahoe County District Court for prosecutors to try to persuade a judge that there was enough evidence to try him for first-degree murder.
Colorado dentist James Craig is charged with fatally poisoning wife Angela Craig. (Facebook)
Bizarre case of 'missing’ Texas teen Rudy Farias takes new twist with latest accusations
The cousin of Houston man Rudy Farias, who was reported missing as a teenager only to turn up eight years later outside a church, has accused his mother of abusing him for years, according to a report.
In an interview with FOX7 Austin, Farias' cousin, Michelle Rodriguez, accused the Houston Police Department of a cover-up.
"They are covering up what they knew years ago, and they didn't want [it] to come out," Rodriguez told the news site.
Texas man Rudy Farias remained a missing person for eight years, but Houston police determined that he'd actually been living with his mother. (FOX26)
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Fox News Digital's Audrey Conklin and Haley Chi-Sing contributed to this report.
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