Police on New York’s Long Island are investigating after a woman was found dead in her home with facial burns. A medical examiner said that Aleena Asif died from asphyxiation by an unknown chemical substance and ruled her death a criminal homicide, Nassau County Police said. Asif was 46. Her body was found last Friday …
A Long Island elementary school teacher has been arrested and charge d with engaging in sexually explicit communications with a child. Suffolk County police said that Mark Verity, 37, was arrested Friday morning at the home a family member after he attempted to solicit indecent photos from a child, Patch.com reported. Police launched an investigation …
Police on Long Island are investigating the apparent murder of a woman found dead in a guest room at a luxury Hamptons wellness spa in Water Mill. The Suffolk County Police Department said a staff member at Shou Gugi Ban House found the body, Newsday reported. The woman, whose identity has not been released, was …
Personal items seized during searches of accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann’s Long Island properties have been returned to his family, attorneys say. “The family is thankful and relieved that they’re starting to get some of their personal property back,” said Bob Macedonio, the attorney for Heuermann’s wife Asa Ellerup, who filed for divorce …
A 65-year-old Long Island man has been arrested and charged with impersonating a social services employee to get into a Suffolk County shelter, where he molested a physically disabled patient. According to Newsday, Alfred Balcerak posed as an employee of the Suffolk Department of Social Services on September 6. He is accused of sexually abusing …
A convicted drug smuggler and loan shark pardoned by then-President Donald Trump in 2021 was arrested earlier this month for assaulting his wife and her 75-year-old father. Nassau County, New York, court records say that Jonathan Braun, 41, has been charged with assault with injury on a person 65 or older, two counts of assault …
Long Island media outlet Newsday reports that suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann is expected to be arraigned this week on a fifth murder. Multiple sources told the outlet that Heuermann, 60, will be arraigned on the new charge on Thursday before State Supreme Court Justice Timothy Mazzei. The new indictment follows some fresh …
Investigators returned to the Long Island home of serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann Monday morning, but it was completely unknown what they may be looking for. Heuermann’s attorney, Michael J. Brown, and Robert Macedonio, who represent’s his wife, told Newsday police were executing search warrants at the home, but Suffolk County officials declined to comment. …
A pair of Porsche-driving squatters were evicted Friday from the Long Island home where they’d been squatting since they convinced a judge they signed a lease with a dead man last year. A bank that had put the house into foreclosure a decade ago went to court with death certificates proving that neither Edward Iacono, …
A 22-year-old Long Island volleyball coach “intentionally” stepped in front of a Long Island Rail Road train on Friday, just hours after appearing in court on charges that he sexually assaulted one of his players. Jason Maser was charged with rape, criminal sexual act, and endangering the welfare of a minor for assaulting a 15-year-old …
Four people were charged with concealing a human corpse and tampering with evidence in connection with two bodies found mutilated and scattered in parks in Long Island last week. Steven Brown, 44; Amanda Wallace, 40; Jeffrey Mackey, 38; and Alexis Nieves, 33, have not been charged with murder or any other violent crime and were …
A retired elementary school teacher from Long Island has been arrested on charges he sexually abused students decades ago. Assistant Suffolk County District Attorney Dana Castaldo said that Thomas Bernagozzi, 75, faces counts of sexual conduct against a child and sodomy relating to two students, one in 1989 and one in 1997, Newsday reported. Suffolk …
