MASSAPEQUA PARK, NY (AP) — A suspect has been taken into custody on New York’s Long Island in reference to a long-unsolved string of killings often known as the Gilgo Beach murders, a regulation enforcement official informed The Associated Press on Friday.

The case has drawn immense public consideration since human stays have been discovered alongside a New York seaside freeway greater than a decade in the past. The thriller attracted nationwide headlines for a few years and the unsolved killings have been the topic of the 2020 Netflix movie “Lost Girls.”

The suspect was taken into custody in Massapequa late Thursday and investigators have been at a house related to the case on Friday, the official stated. The official was not licensed to publicly talk about particulars of the investigation and spoke to AP on situation of anonymity.

The suspect’s identify was not instantly launched.

The deaths of 11 folks whose stays have been present in 2010 and 2011 have lengthy stumped investigators. Most of the victims have been younger ladies who had been intercourse employees. Several of the our bodies have been present in thickets alongside a sandy stretch often known as Gilgo Beach.

Determining who killed them, and why, has vexed a slew of seasoned murder detectives by a number of modifications in police management. Last yr, an interagency activity power was fashioned with investigators from the FBI, in addition to state and native police departments, geared toward fixing the case.

Law enforcement personnel converged on the small purple home that had been raided early Friday within the suburb about 40 miles (64 km) east of midtown Manhattan. Dozens of residents mingled alongside police and media, watching as a half-dozen investigators in protecting fits conferred outdoors the entrance porch, which was in disrepair, its roof propped up by 2-by-4s.

The house belonged to a household that had lengthy saved to themselves, neighbors stated, noting that the dilapidated property appeared misplaced amongst rows of single-family houses and well-kept lawns within the small group.

“This house sticks out like a sore thumb. There were overgrown shrubs, there was always wood in front of the house,” stated Gabriella Libardi, a 24-year-old trainer. “It was very creepy. I wouldn’t send my child there.”

Barry Auslander, one other neighbor, stated the person who lived in the home commuted by practice to New York City every morning, sporting a go well with and tie and carrying a briefcase.

“It was weird. He looked like a businessman,” stated Auslander. “But his house is a dump.”

The formation of the Gilgo Beach activity power represents a renewed dedication to investigating the unsolved killings of largely younger ladies whose skeletal stays have been discovered alongside a freeway on Long Island, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison stated.

“We’re happy to see that they’re finally active, the police, in accomplishing something. Let’s wait and see what it all leads to,” stated John Ray, the lawyer for the households of two victims, Shannan Gilbert and Jessica Taylor.

Gilbert’s disappearance in 2010 triggered the hunt that uncovered the bigger thriller. A 24-year-old intercourse employee, she vanished after leaving a consumer’s home on foot within the seafront group of Oak Beach, disappearing into the marsh.

Months later, a police officer and his cadaver canine have been searching for her physique within the thicket alongside close by Ocean Parkway after they occurred upon the stays of a special girl. Within days, three different our bodies have been discovered, all inside a brief stroll of each other.

By spring 2011, that quantity had climbed to 10 units of human stays — these of eight ladies, one man and one toddler. Some have been later linked to dismembered physique components discovered elsewhere on Long Island, making for a puzzling crime scene that stretched from a park close to the New York City limits to a resort group on Fire Island and out to far japanese Long Island.

Gilbert’s physique was present in December 2011, about 3 miles (5 kilometers) east of the place the opposite 10 units have been found.

In speaking concerning the our bodies close to Gilgo Beach, investigators have stated a number of occasions over time that it's unlikely one individual killed all of the victims.

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Balsamo reported from Washington. Associated Press contributors embrace Jennifer Peltz in New York City and Sarah Brumfield in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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