Suspect held over Lost Girls serial killings on Long Island

Crime laboratory officers arrive at the house where a suspect was taken into custody (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP/PA)

A suspect has been taken into custody on New York’s Long Island in connection with a long-unsolved string of killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders, a law enforcement official has said.

The case has long drawn public attention after skeletal human remains were found along a New York state beach highway more than a decade ago.