Manhattan architect Rex Heuermanns after being arrested at his Long Island home on July 14, thirteen years after the body of the first victim was found

Heuermann, 59, a married father of two adult children from Long Island, NY, was arraigned in the Suffolk County court Friday

He is charged with first and second-degree murders of Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, and Amber Lynn Prescott, 27

He’s the prime suspect in the death of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 28, as well as five other women whose bodies were found along Gilgo Beach on Long Island, in 2011

11 bodies found in the Gilgo Beach area on Long Island are believed to be connected to the case

One victim yet unidentified, was a man dressed in women’s clothing.  

Melissa Barthelemy was the first victim whose body was found, on Dec 11, 2010, two days before Megan Waterman’s body was found in the same area

Barthelemy’s sister revealed the killer was keeping tabs on her family and tormented the family by calling them on the phone and on at least seven occasions even used the victim’s personal cellphone. 

Suspect who ‘spoke with a Long Island accent’ allegedly, told the family he killed Barthelemy, after they had sex

During his arraignment police said four female hairs later tied to Heuermann’s wife were found on the bodies of three victims discovered at Gilgo Beach in December 2010.

If convicted on all charges, Heuermann would face multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Manhattan architect Rex Heuermann, [photo], 59, aka ‘Gilgo Beach serial killer,’ was charged Friday with three counts of homicide. He is the prime suspect in a fourth murder

Manhattan architect Rex Heuermann, 59, has been charged with three murders, after being arrested on July 13, thirteen years after the first body was discovered.
Heuermann, a lifelong Long Island resident, so far been charged with the murder of Gilgo Beach victims Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, and Amber Costello. 
He is also the prime suspect in the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, and is being looked into for the murders of the other six women whose bodies were found in 2011. 
In total, 11 bodies found in the Gilgo Beach area are believed to be connected to the case.
At his arraignment on Friday, detectives alleged that while he used “burner” phones to set up dates with sex workers before they turned up dead, he unwittingly left crucial evidence for investigators
Suffolk County police said four female hairs later tied to Heuermann’s wife were found on the bodies of three victims discovered at Gilgo Beach in December 2010.
Investigators said Heuermann’s internet history, shows more than 200 internet searches on the Gilgo Beach investigation’s updates.
Documents filed in the Suffolk County court, state that investigators were able to link the sighting of Heuermann’s Chevy Avalanche to cellphone records. Those tied him to locations related to the murders, which eventually led to a DNA sample.

The body of Melissa Barthelemy [photo], a sex worker who vanished in 2009 was found on December 11, 2010, more than a year after she went missing. Her remains was the first of the victims to be found

Meanwhile a sister of one of the Gilgo Beach victims has revealed how the killer would torment the family by calling them on the phone and on at least seven occasions even used the victim’s personal cellphone.
The remains of Melissa Barthelemy was found on December 11, 2010, more than a year after she went missing. Two days later, the bodies of three other young women were found nearby along remote stretches of coastline on New York’s Long Island.
The man suspected to be behind the string of killings, Rex Heuermann, was taken into custody on Thursday night, at the home in Massapequa, Long Island, where he has lived since 1980 with his wife  wife, Asa Ellerup, and their adult children.
After a year of tracking the prime suspect and methodically piling up evidence police arrested Heuermann, fearing he would strike again because he continued to patronize sex workers ‘at all hours of the night’, and was using burner phones to conceal his identity. 

Rex Heuermann has been charged with the murders of Melissa Barthelemy [left], 24, whose body was discovered by Dec 11, 2010, and Megan Waterman [right], 22, whos body was found two days later

The latest developments proved unnerving for for the family of Melissa Barthelemy who earlier revealed that soon after her disappearance in 2009, the killer, several were made on Barthelemy’s own cellphone. He taunted her relatives, including one occasion where he admitted to murder.
In the 2020 interview Amanda also revealed the man had been keeping tabs on her in the aftermath of her sister’s murder: ‘He knew my name. He knew what I looked like.’
‘He had a strong accent, New York, Long Island. He was very monotone when he talked, like a middle-aged white guy.’ 
Police later traced the calls and found pings from her dead sister’s phone had been detected at Penn Station in Manhattan, close to where Heuermann’s office is located, according to the court documents, and also in Massapequa, where he lives. 

Heuermann is also charged with the murder of Amber Lynn Costello, [left], 27, who vanished Sept 2, 2010. He’s the prime suspect in the death of Maureen Brainard-Barnes [right], 28, was last seen July 9, 2007, as well as six other women whose bodies were found in 2011.  

Recalling the terrifying phone calls, Amanda said that the killer had called her to call her sister insulting names, referring to her sex work.
He admitted that “He killed Melissa after having sex with her,” Barthelemy’s sister, Amanda F. told PIX11.
“In the final call, he said he’d killed her,” recounts Amanda, who started receiving phone calls when she was only 15, adding, ‘He killed her; he raped her. Maybe one day he’d tell me where she was.’
A total of seven calls were made to the family with the final one being placed on August 26, 2009.
The dates of the calls were revealed during Heuermann’s criminal arraignment on Friday.
Barthelemy, a petite blonde woman, was the first of the serial killer’s victims to be found on Ocean Parkway in December 2010. 

Rex Heuermann, seen in one of his Tinder profile photos, ‘continued to patronize prostitutes, using burner phones’, during the investigation police said. Detectives tracked the fictitious email account he used on dating profile and his burner phone number

Barthelemy was an escort who had disappeared from the Bronx the year before.
The killer provided clues including strands of hair, the burlap used to wrap the bodies and a belt embossed with possible initials.
Heuermann was charged with first- and second-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello. Authorities said he is also the ‘prime suspect’ in another killing of Maureen Brainard-Barnes. All victims were strangled.

Manhattan architect Rex Heuermann, the so-called Gilgo Beach serial killer has been linked to at least 11 deaths, nine adult women all linked to the sex trade, a toddler and a man dressed in women’s clothing. The baby belonged to one of the female victims

To accelerate the search for Barthelemy’s remains, her family hired a psychic who provided tantalizing clues that would prove prophetic: She would be found in a shallow grave along the shore, near a sign with the letter G. 
Eight of the victims remains were located along the barren stretch of Ocean Beach Parkway in Gilgo Beach, located on the South Shore of Long Island. Gilgo Beach would become the focal point of the long-stalled investigation into the discovery of 11 sets of remains, including that of a toddler, all discarded along the parkway that cuts the length of a thin strip of white sand, dirt, brambles and marshes known as Jones Beach Island. 

Alleged serial killer Rex Heuermann has lived at this Long Island property since the 1980s with his wife, Asa Ellerup, and their two children

Crime scene investigators bring out evidence from the Massapequa Park home of Rex Heuermann who was arrested as a suspect in the Gilgo Beach serial killing. Forensics teams were seen combing through Heuermann’s Long Island home on Friday. A freezer was among items seized 

The toddler and three other victims have yet to be identified. All 10 adult victims, including the toddler’s mother, were sex workers, police said.
However, investigators say the suspect might not be responsible for all of the deaths. 
The alleged serial killer, has so far only been accused of killing three women who were reported missing in 2010. He is also the prime suspect in the death of a fourth woman who disappeared three years earlier.
Heuermann says he is innocent, according to his lawyer.

Alleged serial killer Rex Heuermann [photo], if convicted on all charges, would face multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole

According to a PIX11 report, two strands of female hair were found on Megan Waterman, including one on the tape wrapped around Waterman’s head, according to authorities. 
Female hair was found in tape used to wrap burlap around victim Amber Costello. Female hair was detected in a belt buckle found on Maureen Brainard-Barnes’ body.
Heuermann has not been charged with Brainard-Barnes’ murder, but prosecutors said he’s the top suspect and could face more charges pertaining to the original “Gilgo Four” victims. 
If convicted on all charges, Heuermann would face multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole.