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New York officials released Monday forensic sketches and informational flyers about a possible new victim in the Gilgo Beach serial killings case, in an effort to identify them and get new leads in the roughly 20-year-old homicide. The remains of the victim, referred to as “Asian Doe,” were found in 2011 near the bodies of at least 10 others near Long Island, New York’s Gilgo Beach. Long Island architect Rex Heuermann, 61, was arrested last year in connection with the Gilgo Beach serial killings. Heuermann was initially charged with killing three women — Megan Waterman, Amber Costello and Melissa Barthelemy — and dumping their bodies near Gilgo Beach. Authorities previously disclosed that “Asian Doe” was wearing women’s clothing, but did not provide further details.

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☆ Gilgo Beach killings: Prosecutors to provide new information about “Asian Doe” victim in serial killings case
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Lauren Mascarenhas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Prosecutors are expected to provide new information Monday about a victim referred to as “Asian Doe” in the investigation into Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect Rex Heuermann. Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said his office will present the development at a news conference after a court proceeding in Heuermann’s case. The arrest came after years of searching for the person responsible for a string of unsolved killings targeting women. At least 11 sets of human remains have been found on Long Island’s Suffolk County, including those belonging to women Heuermann is accused of killing. “This was a planning document used by Heuermann to methodically blueprint and plan out his kills with excruciating detail.

Persons: Rex Heuermann, Ray Tierney, Heuermann, Michael Brown, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Amber Costello, Maureen Brainard, Barnes, Jessica Taylor, Sandra Costilla, Barthelemy, Waterman, Costello, Brainard, Taylor, Costilla, Raymond Tierney, “, CNN’s John Miller, Mark Morales, Brynn Gingras Organizations: CNN — Prosecutors, Gilgo Locations: Rex Heuermann . Suffolk County, New York, Long, Long Island’s Suffolk County, Suffolk County

☆ Gilgo Suspect’s How-To Manual Reflects a Killer’s Mind, Prosecutors Say
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Corey Kilgannon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Written in capital letters, the manual is structured as a series of reminder lists under topics like PRE-PREP, which offers banal tips about the importance of checking weather reports and looking for surveillance cameras. The PREP section is more grim, with directives to set up a holding area and “stage” with equipment for apparent sexual torture. The BODY PREP list includes reminders on how to avoid leaving evidence. The manual is the most informative piece of narrative evidence disclosed since prosecutors filed legal papers after Mr. Heuermann’s arrest detailing investigators’ 18-month pursuit. In prosecutors’ hands, a document they say the defendant created to avoid detection may instead become damning evidence against him, even given the already disclosed DNA matches, phone records and internet activity that prosecutors say tie Mr. Heuermann to the killings.

Persons: Rex Heuermann, Heuermann, ’ Organizations: ” Locations: Long

☆ Rex Heuermann: Inside the document prosecutors say the accused Gilgo Beach serial killer used to ‘plan out his kills’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-09 | by ( Ramon Sanchez | Ray Sanchez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Details of the content of the document come from the latest bail application from prosecutors. DNA evidence initially linked him to a hair found on the burlap sack where Waterman’s remains were found. The 60-year-old architect was surprised by the latest charges, Heuermann attorney Michael Brown said after the defendant appeared in an eastern Long Island courtroom. The bail application said a tattoo on Taylor’s torso had been mutilated with a sharp object. It recommended the use of heavier rope since lighter types “broke under the stress of being tightend,” the bail application said.

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☆ Gilgo Beach Serial Killing Suspect Is Charged With 2 More Murders
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Corey Kilgannon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Rex Heuermann, who was arrested last summer and has been accused of murdering four women in the Gilgo Beach serial killings on Long Island, was indicted Thursday on murder charges in the deaths of two more women. In the meantime, investigators turned to the six other victims — four women, a man and a toddler — whose remains, like those of the first four women, were found along Ocean Parkway by Gilgo Beach. On Thursday, Mr. Heuermann was charged with killing one of them: Jessica Taylor, whose partial remains were found near Gilgo Beach in 2011 and then linked to other partial remains found eight years earlier in a remote wooded area in Manorville, a 45-minute drive east. He was also charged with killing Sandra Costilla, a 28-year-old New York woman whose remains were found in 1993 in the Hamptons. Her long unsolved murder had not previously been associated with the Gilgo Beach investigation.

Persons: Rex Heuermann, Heuermann, Jessica Taylor, Sandra Costilla Organizations: New York, Hamptons Locations: Long, Gilgo, Gilgo Beach, Manorville, New

☆ Defense Strategy in Gilgo Murder Case: Blame a Corrupt Police Chief
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Corey Kilgannon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After Rex Heuermann was arrested last summer and then charged with murdering four women whose bodies were found in 2010 along Gilgo Beach on Long Island, prosecutors disclosed a barrage of details to support their case, including genetic evidence and sadistic porn sites they said Mr. Heuermann visited. Now, with the trial still months away, the defense’s strategy is beginning to take shape. Brown, has begun to float an alternate theory about the case: that the investigation into the murders was tainted years ago by the involvement of a now-disgraced Long Island police chief. At a hearing last month following a procedural court appearance by Mr. Heuermann, Mr. Brown repeated his client’s claims of innocence. He also suggested that the real killer might have eluded arrest years ago when Mr. Burke was running the investigation.

Persons: Rex Heuermann, Heuermann, Heuermann’s, Michael J, Brown, James Burke, Burke Organizations: Long, police, Suffolk County Police Department Locations: Gilgo, Long Island, Suffolk

☆ Rex Heuermann Faces Fourth Murder Charge in Gilgo Beach Serial Killings
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Corey Kilgannon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Rex Heuermann, whom prosecutors charged in July as the Gilgo Beach serial killer, was indicted Tuesday morning in connection with a fourth murder. Mr. Heuermann, 60, was previously charged in the killings of three of the four women who in 2010 were found bound in similar fashion with burlap, belts and tape on the Long Island oceanfront. In July, prosecutors called Mr. Heuermann the prime suspect in the murder of the fourth woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, of Norwich, Conn. Ms. Brainard-Barnes disappeared in 2007, becoming the first of the so-called Gilgo Four to vanish. But charges in her killing were delayed, pending DNA test results on a hair recovered from her remains, and the grand jury in the case continued its work. Months later, it finally returned a murder indictment in connection with her death.

Persons: Rex Heuermann, Heuermann, Maureen Brainard, Ms . Brainard, Barnes Locations: Barnes, Norwich, Conn

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — Prosecutors say they are planning a major announcement in their investigation of the suspected serial murders of a group of women whose bodies were found strewn along a coastal highway near Long Island's Gilgo Beach. The prime suspect in some of those killings, Rex Heuermann, is due in court Tuesday, months after he was charged in the deaths of three women. Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney is set to make the announcement after a court hearing in the case in Riverhead, New York. Heuermann was charged in July with the killings of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello, whose bodies were found buried along a remote beach parkway. Prosecutors said Heuermann is also suspected in the death of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, who vanished in 2007.

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☆ Gilgo Beach murders: timeline of the case and investigation
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Emma Tucker | Authorities Find First Remains In Gilgo Beach Murders | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN has reached out to Heuermann’s attorney, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office and the Suffolk County Police Department for comment. Here is a timeline of the Gilgo Beach killings, how the investigation unfolded and what ultimately led to Heuermann’s arrest. Two days later, investigators discovered the remains of three additional victims – Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Amber Costello and Megan Waterman – strewn across a half-mile stretch on Gilgo Beach. Authorities later said they believed Gilbert’s death may have been accidental and not related to the Gilgo Beach slayings. The task force included the Suffolk County Police Department, the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office, the New York State Police and the FBI.

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☆ Gilgo Beach Serial-Murder Case Hangs on a Hair and Its DNA
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Corey Kilgannon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After 13 years of dead ends and blown leads, the Gilgo Beach murder investigation finally turned on pizza crusts that Rex Heuermann had tossed in a trash can in Midtown Manhattan. It was a jackpot for investigators who had watched Mr. Heuermann for months. “Pizza crust is like a sponge — it allowed the saliva to seep into the dough,” Ray Tierney, the Suffolk County district attorney, said in a recent interview. The sample gave investigators the genetic match that helped connect Mr. Heuermann to four bodies found in 2010 on Long Island, and his arrest followed in July, Mr. Tierney said. Investigators say the DNA profile obtained from a male hair found on the burlap used to wrap one of the four victims found in 2010, Megan Waterman, corresponds to the pizza slice sample from Mr. Heuermann.

Persons: Rex Heuermann, Heuermann, ” Ray Tierney, Tierney, Heuermann’s, Megan Waterman Organizations: Mr Locations: Midtown Manhattan, Suffolk County, Long

☆ Wife of Gilgo Beach Suspect Gets a Documentary Deal
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Corey Kilgannon | More About Corey Kilgannon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Disappointed, disgusted, flabbergasted, frustrated are a few words that come to mind right now,” her sister Sherre Gilbert wrote in a social media post. As long as none of the money flows to Mr. Heuermann, the arrangement would skirt New York laws that prohibit defendants from selling their stories to the media. Recent weeks have seen her visiting Mr. Heuermann in jail for the first time and making her debut appearance at a court hearing with a Peacock film crew in tow, as it has been at her home. Ms. Ellerup herself appears more composed than the figure she cut upon returning to the house that overnight had become a notorious landmark. The grisly details shocked the public and reopened wounds for relatives of 11 people whose remains were found along the same stretch of oceanfront.

Persons: Shannan Gilbert, “, flabbergasted, Sherre Gilbert, ” Peacock, Ellerup, Heuermann Organizations: Prosecutors Locations: Gilgo, York, Manhattan, Long, Shore

☆ Gadfly Lawyer for Gilgo Beach Families Courts Cameras and Tipsters
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Corey Kilgannon | More About Corey Kilgannon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It seemed like a classic John Ray news conference last month, with the flamboyant Long Island lawyer stepping up to news cameras, bedecked in a polka dot tie and matching fedora. Now Mr. Ray had something new: the police at his side. Mr. Heuermann, a Long Island architect and suburban father, was arrested in July and charged with killing three of the 11 people whose remains were found at or near Gilgo Beach on the South Shore a dozen years ago. As Mr. Ray detailed the claims, the Gilgo Beach Task Force, the team investigating the case, watched the broadcast and seethed. They had become used to Mr. Ray as a gadfly delivering barbs and brickbats with a flourish from his pewter-handled cane.

Persons: John Ray, Long, Ray, Rodney Harrison, Rex Heuermann, Heuermann Organizations: Suffolk County, Shore, Task Force Locations: Suffolk, Gilgo Beach

☆ The Botched Hunt for the Gilgo Beach Killer
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Robert Kolker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

This summer, after 13 years, the police finally made an arrest in the Gilgo Beach murders. When I was reporting “Lost Girls,” my 2013 book about the case and victims, the police were largely silent. Since July, I’ve conducted interviews with people close to the Gilgo case during every chapter of its bizarre 13-year timeline. (Several sources asked for anonymity, concerned that public statements by insiders might undercut the case against Heuermann before the trial.) From the moment those women were found at Gilgo Beach, the law-enforcement culture of Suffolk County seemed so preternaturally ill suited to handle this case that a killer was allowed to roam free.

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☆ Once Rarely Seen, Gilgo Beach Suspect’s Family Now Barbecues on the Lawn
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-27 | by ( Corey Kilgannon | More About Corey Kilgannon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Until last month, the neighbors never saw much of the family living in the rundown house on First Avenue in Massapequa Park on Long Island. But in the five weeks since the authorities charged the house’s owner, Rex Heuermann, in the Gilgo Beach serial killings, his wife and children have become unlikely fixtures in their neighborhood. The family — Mr. Heuermann’s wife, Asa Ellerup, 59, and their children, Victoria, 26, and Christopher, 33 — slipped out of the house in July just before crowds of reporters and gawkers descended and investigators began to hunt for evidence in a search that lasted nearly two weeks. But Ms. Ellerup and the children soon returned and quickly became a daily presence outside the house, sitting together on the front porch or working to put the place back together. She declined to speak to a reporter who recently stopped by.

Persons: Rex Heuermann, Heuermann’s, Asa Ellerup, Christopher, —, Ellerup Locations: Massapequa, Long, Victoria

☆ Gilgo Beach killings: Sex workers describe encounters with Rex Heuermann
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Brynn Gingras | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Two women held in Suffolk County jail say they had encounters with the Gilgo Beach killings suspect Rex Heuermann, describing the meetings with him as “violent” and “aggressive,” sheriff’s department spokesperson Vicki DiStefano said Thursday. The alleged encounters with the two female sex workers are believed to have happened more than a decade ago, said DiStefano, noting the women expressed concern for their safety during the time they say they were with Heuermann. The information was uncovered as part of ongoing interviews by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department human trafficking unit, which was created to help those incarcerated have access to services and support they need to recover. Since Heuermann’s July 13 arrest, the unit has been interviewing sex workers, as well as showing a picture of Heuermann to women, to see if they recall any interactions with him. He has pleaded not guilty in the killings of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Lynn Costello.

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☆ Opinion: A powerful weapon for prosecutors is now in the hands of Fani Willis
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. In the US, prosecutors are given enormous power to apply the law as they see fit, choosing who to charge and what to charge them with. Evidence of their misdeeds can secure convictions and allow for strict sentences that otherwise couldn’t be imposed. Bill Bramhall/Tribune Content AgencyThe 97-page indictment unveiled by Willis last week cites a lot more evidence than could be arrayed against a sandwich served at lunch. “We are the chief law enforcement officers in each jurisdiction, with the weighty power to deprive others of their freedom,” Aronberg observed.

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☆ Twilight of the Serial Killer: Cases Like Gilgo Beach Become Ever Rarer
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Hurubie Meko | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Rex Heuermann, the meticulous architectural consultant who the authorities say murdered three women and buried them on a Long Island beach more than a decade ago, may have been among the last of the dying breed of American serial killers. Even as serial killers came to inhabit a central place in the nation’s imagination — inspiring hit movies, television shows, books, podcasts and more — their actual number was dwindling dramatically. There were once hundreds at large, and a spike in the 1970s and ’80s terrified the country. The techniques that led to the arrest of Mr. Heuermann, who has pleaded not guilty to the crimes, help explain the waning of serial killing, which the F.B.I. defines as the same person killing two or more victims in separate events at different times.

Persons: Rex Heuermann, Heuermann

☆ Prosecutors Identify Human Remains Found in 2011 Near Gilgo Beach
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Maria Cramer | More About Maria Cramer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A skull that was found in 2011 near Gilgo Beach on Long Island has been identified as that of a 34-year-old woman who went missing in 1996, the authorities said on Friday. The death of the woman, Karen Vergata, has not been linked to Rex Heuermann, a Long Island architect who last month pleaded not guilty to killing three women whose bodies were found along the beach. The skull of Ms. Vergata, who investigators said had worked as an escort, was discovered on Tobay Beach around the same time that investigators discovered the remains of 11 other people along the stretch of the South Shore that includes nearby Gilgo Beach. Other remains belonging to Ms. Vergata had been found in Davis Park on Fire Island in April 1996. For years, she was known as “Fire Island Jane Doe” as the police worked to identify her.

Persons: Karen Vergata, Rex Heuermann, Heuermann, Vergata, Jane Doe ” Organizations: Authorities Locations: Gilgo Beach, Long, Tobay, Shore, Gilgo, Davis

☆ Gilgo Beach suspect Rex Heuermann: Wife of serial killings suspect and her attorney open up about the family's experience since his arrest
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Elizabeth Wolfe Jessica Xing | Elizabeth Wolfe | Jessica Xing | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The wife of the Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect Rex Heuermann and her attorney told CNN she had “no idea” of her husband’s alleged actions and that the flood of public attention has been “extremely overwhelming” for the mother and her two children. He is also the prime suspect in the disappearance and killing of the fourth victim but has yet to be charged in that case. Authorities have said Ellerup and the children were out of town when the killings occurred. The spotlight on the family has attracted onlookers who show up at the home “just to get a glimpse of what’s going on at the house,” Macedonio said. Ellerup has been in touch with Heuermann since his arrest, the attorney said, though he did not provide further details.

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CNN —In the continuing investigation of Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect Rex Heuermann, authorities have scoured his New York home, leaving a chaotic scene for his family to return to, according to Heuermann’s wife and her attorney. Inside the home of suspect Rex Heurmann, after authorities searched the house. Courtesy Robert MacedonioSince then, Heuermann’s wife, Asa Ellerup, has filed for divorce and returned to the family’s home, which her attorney said has been “torn up” by investigators. “She came home to complete destruction of her family residence where she lived and raised the children,” Ellerup’s lawyer, Robert Macedonio, told CNN. Courtesy Robert MacedonioHe added that the family barely has space to walk through the house, with the piles of debris left after the search.

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☆ The Best True Crime to Stream: Serial Killers, With Less Glorification
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Maya Salam | More About Maya Salam | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Decades before true crime crept in from the margins and inundated pop culture, I found a humble paperback buried in the stacks of my parents’ bookshelf about America’s most notorious serial killers. Though I was already aware that terrible things happened in general, this was different: specific, personal and intimately chilling. This shift was reflected to some degree in July when a man was arrested in the Gilgo Beach serial killings. This is the first in a series of streaming lists about true crime films, shows and podcasts. Here are picks across television, documentary and podcast that offer more than the usual glorification of madness.

Persons: Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy

Mr. Heuermann went on to college at New York Institute of Technology on Long Island to study architectural technology. One of the few neighbors Mr. Heuermann spoke to was Etienne de Villiers, 68, whose immaculately kept house next door stood in keen contrast with Mr. Heuermann’s. Mr. de Villiers said he had only passing conversations with Mr. Heuermann along with a few minor conflicts, like the time he had to tell Mr. Heuermann to stop leering at his wife over the backyard fence while she was sunbathing. Mr. de Villiers watched as Mr. Heuermann seemed to be raising his children to be as isolated as he had been, in the same rundown off-limits house. “He just didn’t want any part of it, he didn’t want any part of sports,” Mr. DeMicoli said.

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Rex Heuermann, the Long Island architect charged in the Gilgo Beach serial murder case, kept 279 weapons in his rundown home, most of them in a basement vault big enough to walk into, the authorities said on Tuesday. Mr. Heuermann had lived with his family in the dilapidated one-story house with the unkempt yard on First Avenue in Massapequa Park, N.Y., for years, commuting to his architectural consultancy in Manhattan. As they’ve worked, the house has become something of a tourist attraction for true crime fans and a daily encampment for news crews covering the case. Mr. Heuermann has been charged with killing Amber Lynn Costello, 27; Melissa Barthelemy, 24; and Megan Waterman, 22. He is the prime suspect in the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25.

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CNN —The search of Rex Heuermann’s Long Island home has ended after investigators turned up “quite a lot of evidence” in the Gilgo Beach serial killings, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said Tuesday. “We are for all intents and purposes done with the search,” Tierney told reporters. Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney says the search of Rex Heuermann's home turned up "quite a lot of evidence." “I did not do this,” his court appointed-attorney, Michael Brown, said Heuermann told him. “We’re going to look at the other instances where the bodies were recovered in that area as well,” Tierney said Tuesday.

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☆ What causes someone to become a serial killer? Criminology experts explain
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Alaa Elassar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

CNN —For decades, criminologists and true crime documentaries have attempted to understand what causes serial killers to commit the atrocities they do. CNN spoke with three forensic psychologists and serial killer experts to better understand what causes people to become serial killers. Scott Bonn: Not all psychopaths are serial killers, and not all serial killers are psychopaths. In the case (of a serial killer who) is a psychopath, their brain functions differently than a normal human brain. Are all serial killers serial sexual murderers?

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