Suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann has been charged with the homicide of a seventh sufferer. The new superseding indictment was launched in Suffolk County courtroom on Tuesday, December 17.
Heuermann, 60, has been charged with second-degree homicide within the killing of Valerie Mack. The sufferer’s partial stays had been discovered on Long Island in New York in November 2000. Shaking his head no, Heuermann mentioned in courtroom on Tuesday, in keeping with CNN, “Your honor, I’m not responsible of any of those prices.”
Mack, a 24-year-old Philadelphia mom, used to work as an escort when she disappeared. “The Mack household is emblematic of the opposite households on this case, who’ve steadfast stood by their family members and zealously guarded their reminiscences,” Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney mentioned in a information convention following the courtroom look.
Heuermann’s lawyer, Michael Brown, mentioned his consumer was shocked by the newest cost and is “adamant that he didn’t do these crimes.” The subsequent listening to has been scheduled for January 15.
A gaggle of hunters with a canine discovered elements of Mack’s stays in a wooded space of Manorville. The hunters subsequently known as 911. Human hair discovered on Mack’s left wrist went on to guide prosecutors to the DNA profiles of Heuermann’s spouse Asa Ellerup, and daughter Victoria Heuermann. According to 2 forensic laboratories, hairs recovered on six of the seven alleged victims are “forensically tied” to Heuermann or members of his rapid household, or different folks he lived with, a authorized submitting has mentioned.
Mack’s head, palms, and proper foot remained lacking for about 11 years after the preliminary investigation in Manorville in 2000. Her cranium, palms, and proper foot had been discovered east of Gilgo Beach in Suffolk County in April 2011. These stays had been discovered lower than 1.5 miles east of the place the stays of Heuermann’s alleged sufferer Jessica Taylor.
Who had been Rex Heuermann’s victims?
Heuermann was arrested in July 2023 and charged with homicide within the killings of 4 ladies who turned often known as the Gilgo Four – Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Amber Costello and Maureen Brainard-Barnes. Their our bodies had been discovered sure with belts or tape and wrapped in burlap alongside a stretch of Ocean Parkway in Gilgo Beach in 2010. Heuermann pleaded not responsible to the costs associated to all of the 4 murders.
The Gilgo Four:
Melissa Barthelemy –Barthelemy, 24, was final seen stay in New York City, prosecutors mentioned. Her bodywas discovered on December 11, 2010, and he or she was the primary of the Gilgo Beach victims to be found. She was an escort, and had gone lacking from the Bronx earlier than her homicide.
Megan Waterman – According to police,Waterman, a sufferer of intercourse trafficking, was 22 years previous when she disappeared. She was believed to have been taken to New York by her then-boyfriend in June 2010. Surveillance video confirmed her within the foyer of a resort on Long Island, and officers imagine she was murdered quickly after that.
Amber Costello – Costello, 27, was dwelling on Long Island when she disappeared. Suffolk County police mentioned she was combating heroin habit and labored as an escort to assist help her behavior. She was final seen on September 2, 2010, leaving her house to fulfill a consumer. Her stays had been found on December 13, 2010, close to Gilgo Beach.
Maureen Brainard-Barnes –Brainard-Barnes, 25, was believed to be a intercourse employee when she disappeared. She was final seen on July 9, 2007. Before going lacking, she known as a good friend in Connecticut, the place she lived, to say that she had an “out name,” Suffolk County police mentioned.Her stays had been discovered on Long Island’s Gilgo Beach in 2010.
Other victims:
In June 2024, two extra second-degree homicide prices had been added for the deaths of Sandra Costilla and Jessica Taylor.28-year-old Costilla’s physique was found by two hunters in a wooded space in North Sea, Southampton, on November 21, 1993. Costilla, whom police known as a “drifter,” was left partially clothed and had been strangled to demise. Cops didn’t say if she was a intercourse employee, however said that her life-style “considerably related.” Meanwhile, 20-year-old Taylor was a intercourse employee close to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City. Taylor’s nude physique was discovered by a girl strolling her canine in July 2003 within the wooded space of Manorville, the place Heuermann’s Massapequa Park house is positioned.
Heuermann’ workedin Midtown for a number of years at his personal firm, RH Architecture. He was caught by plainclothes cops as he strolled down a Midtown sidewalk on the evening of July 13.