Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said his investigators would examine whether it could be used to help solve the hundreds of other cold cases in Suffolk County.

The decision is an important win for prosecutors and a blow for the defense team that challenged the validity of this type of technology that specializes in extracting nuclear DNA from damaged or

Rex Heuermann lost his bid to exclude DNA evidence linking him to seven Gilgo Beach serial killing victims found along Long Island's Ocean Parkway over two decades.