A co-founder of the California laboratory whose new nuclear DNA extraction method is at the center of an ongoing hearing to determine its admissibility in the criminal case against alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex A. Heuermann, is scheduled to testify in Riverhead later this month, a judge said Thursday.

The legal battle over whether a new type of DNA evidence​ against accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann​ will be thrown out continued on Wednesday.

Rex Heuermann and the shocking headline-grabbing Gilgo Beach murders take center stage in Netflix’s new docuseries “Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer,” which debuted Monday. The docuseries directed by Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus examines the horrific murders that haunted the small Long Island beach town of Gilgo Beach,