Suspected Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann is expected to be arraigned on a new murder charge later this week. CBS News References.
No details about the charge or the victim were released, although the new indictment is expected to be formally filed on Thursday, June 6. The news comes just over a week later the police were on watch executing a search warrant at Heuermann's home in Massapequa Park, New York. In April, the police too conducted new research in Manorville, where the remains of two of Heuermann's alleged victims were first found 20 years ago.
Heuermann was arrested in July 2023 and charged with murdering three of the so-called “Gilgo Four” victims, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello. Charges against the fourth victim, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, were filed in January of this year. Heuermann has pleaded not guilty to all charges against him.
Heuermann's attorney did not immediately return calls Rolling rockhis request for comment on reports of the impending new charge.
It is possible that the new charge against Heuermann will expand the case against him beyond the Gilgo Four. The remains of 11 bodies were discovered on the shore of Long Island's Gilgo Beach between 1996 and 2011, but police focused on four victims — all sex workers at the time of their deaths and wrapped similar to burlap — who were believed to have been killed by themselves. face.
The case went cold for over a decade, with investigators finally zeroing in on Heuermann as a suspect in 2022. The breakthrough came after investigators discovered that Heuermann once owned a Chevrolet Avalanche, the same car model that a witness had reported he owned seen in connection with the Costello Murder. After that, police were able to link a number of phone numbers and email addresses to Heuermann, claiming he was using them to contact sex workers. A cremation account provided investigators with a trove of evidence, including Internet searches on “sex workers, sadistic, torture-related pornography, and child pornography,” as well as more than 200 searches related to the unsolved serial killer case of Long Island.
The last piece of evidence leading up to Heuermann's arrest came from a discarded pizza crust. Investigators used it to obtain DNA evidence, which matched a male hair found in the burlap sack containing Waterman's remains.
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