NEW YORK (WABC) -- A New York judge in Riverhead on Wednesday admitted DNA evidence that Suffolk County prosecutors say links alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann to the murders of at least seven victims.

The defense had challenged the evidence since it was obtained using new DNA technology that had not been tested in a New York court.

Prosecutors successfully argued the technology was derived from accepted scientific methods.

Judge Timothy Mazzei ruled that nuclear DNA results obtained from rootless hairs recovered from Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Megan Waterman, Amber Costello, Sandra Costilla, Jessica Taylor and Valerie Mack are admissible at trial.

Mazzei said the use of whole genome sequencing to extract DNA from the hairs, create a profile and then compare that profile t

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