Read the indictment[1], which has all details about burner phones, AOL accounts with fictitious accounts, Amex credit card bills that gave away "google pay" payments to Tinder, which gave away more burner phone numbers.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23875987-bail-application-rex-heuermann-gilgo-beach" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23875987-bail-applic...</a>
I thought this statement was interesting (especially for the HN crowd).<p>"He was caught by utilizing the type of communication analytics only available to federal law enforcement. Bringing in the FBI became a key moment in the investigation, as only federal law enforcement has the technology and resources to crunch the amount of telephone records that zeroed in on the suspect and his Massapequa Park address."<p><a href="https://abc7ny.com/gilgo-beach-murders-suspect-in-custody-serial-killings-investigation/13502401/#:~:text=Photo%20of%2059%2Dyear%2Dold,available%20to%20federal%20law%20enforcement" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://abc7ny.com/gilgo-beach-murders-suspect-in-custody-se...</a>.<p>Unclear to me what that means, except FBI had the computational power? to sort through a lot of cell tower data? Access to phone data unavailable to local law enforcement?