New York architect charged in decade-old Gilgo Beach serial killings
- Rex Heuermann faces murder charges for the deaths of three women and is the prime suspect in the death of a fourth
- The case against him is based on DNA evidence from a discarded pizza box, cellphone data and a sighting of his vehicle at the home of one of the victims
A New York architect was charged on Friday in connection with the long-unsolved murders of three women whose bodies were found near a beach on Long Island more than a decade ago.
Rex Heuermann, 59, is facing murder charges for the 2009 and 2010 deaths of the three women and is the “prime suspect” in the murder of a fourth woman, officials said.
“Rex Heuermann is a demon,” Suffolk County police commissioner Rodney Harrison told reporters. “A predator that ruins families.”
Heuermann, who lived in Massapequa Park, a town near Gilgo Beach, where the bodies were found, was arrested in Manhattan on Thursday evening.
All four women – Amber Costello, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Maureen Brainard-Barnes – were in their 20s and were sex workers, according to prosecutors.