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Two years after Gilgo arrest, Rex Heuermann's murder trial still in distant future

Prosecutors have said they linked Heuermann to six of the seven victims through DNA. Investigators first obtained a sample of Heuermann's DNA by grabbing from the garbage a pizza crust that the architect had discarded.

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