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RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — A Long Island architect accused in a string of long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday, closing a case that bedeviled investigators, agonized victims’ relatives and tantalized a true-crime obsessed public for years. Rex Heuermann, 62, is charged with murdering seven women, many of them sex workers, over a 17-year span. A guilty plea would put him in prison for the rest of his life.

Detectives working the Gilgo Beach murders on Long Island visited Jones Beach after discovering disturbing evidence — including a bloody glove — near where suspect Rex Heuermann once worked, The Post has learned.

SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. (AP) - A man who committed suicide in June after becoming the focus of a rape investigation abducted and killed three Virginia girls in the 1990s, police said Tuesday. Forensic evidence - including hair, fibers and DNA - linked Richard Evonitz to the killings in 1996 and 1997, Spotsylvania County Sheriff Ron Knight said. He said Evonitz apparently acted alone. Evonitz lived in the area at the time Sofia Silva and sisters Kati and Kristin Lisk were abducted from outside their homes and killed. Authorities are continuing to gather evidence to see if Evonitz is linked to crimes...