Would someone please explain this to me? It may be awful writing but I don’t have any idea why the pizza box even played a part in this investigation years later!! Please - I would like to sleep tonight!
Apparently, a human hair was found in the burlap that one of murder victims, Megan Waterman, was wrapped in (2010). They were able to match the DNA from the hair found to DNA on the pizza crust. A surveillance team saw Heuermann throw out the pizza box in Manhattan in January of this year in a street trash receptacle, which they retrieved. They do not say why they were surveilling him.
Yes, it was a terribly unclear and poorly written article
The daily mail has a better summary of events.
The pizza box was trash from his office. Police secretly collected it to find DNA. They found a strand of the perp’s hair, which matched a hair found in a burlap sack in which he buried one of his victims.