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Gilgo Seashore murders suspect Rex Heuermann is anticipated to look in courtroom subsequent week as hypothesis continues to develop that he might be charged with a fourth killing.
The 60-year-old has already pleaded not responsible to the homicide of three intercourse employees whose stays have been discovered strewn throughout Lengthy Island greater than a decade in the past.
He was formally named by police as a suspect within the homicide of a fourth girl, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, whose physique was discovered together with the opposite three in December 2010.
Whereas it has not been confirmed why the disgraced architect is going through a brand new courtroom date, prosecutors had beforehand acknowledged a particular grand jury was solely being requested to contemplate an indictment into the killing of Brainard-Barnes, 25.
Heuermann is slated to look at Suffolk County Supreme Court docket earlier than Justice Timothy Mazzei’s on Tuesday morning, Newsday experiences.
Gilgo Seashore murders suspect Rex Heuermann is anticipated to look at Suffolk County Supreme Court docket on Tuesday amid hypothesis he might be charged with a fourth killing
Prosecutors beforehand introduced a grand jury was being directed to look at whether or not to difficulty an indictment for the homicide of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, whose stays have been found together with these of three different intercourse employees who Heuermann has been charged with killing
The ladies often known as the ‘Gilgo 4’ have been found near Heuermann’s Lengthy Island dwelling. Nonetheless, different our bodies – together with these of intercourse employees – have been discovered within the space
The married father-of-two had been on account of return to courtroom subsequent on February 6 for a convention on the unique six rely indictment.
His return to courtroom prematurely has fueled hypothesis prosecutors might be about to him him with additional separate prices.
Heuermann has been held with out bail since his arrest for the murders of Megan Waterman, 22, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, and Amber Lynn Costello, 27.
All 4 girls have been amongst 11 discovered on the desolate stretch of shoreline near Heuermann’s Lengthy Island Residence between 2010 and 2011.
All the victims labored as escorts who marketed themselves on Craigslist.
Their stays have been discovered on a stretch of seaside wrapped in camouflage burlap and certain with belts or purple tape.
Heuermann was linked to the killings by DNA on the burlap used to move the bodied which was in comparison with samples taken from a pizza crust and serviette that have been discarded outdoors his Manhattan architectural agency.
The samples boasted a 99.96 p.c match.
The primary sufferer, 24-year-old Melissa Barthelemy, was found by Suffolk County Police on December 11, 2010. The physique of Megan Waterman, 22, from Maine, was discovered two days later
Heuermann is charged with killing Amber Costello (left) and has solely been linked with the homicide of Maureen Brainard-Barnes (proper)
DNA discovered on the burlap wrapped round Waterman’s physique was a 99.96 p.c match to samples from a discarded pizza crust and serviette in a rubbish bin outdoors Heuermann’s agency
Previous to testing the DNA, cops have been alerted to Heuermann as a possible suspect after a witness linked Heuermann’s Chevrolet Avalanche to Costello’s homicide.
The automobile was then tied to Heuermann’s cellphone data, which tied him to places associated to the murders.
The indictment acknowledged that Heuermann had used totally different burner telephones to contact every of his victims.
Cops additionally accused Heuermann of utilizing Barthelemy’s telephone to make taunting telephone calls to her household from the consolation of his workplace.
In October it was revealed that Heuermann is being probed over the slaying of two extra intercourse employees.
Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Okay. Harrison confirmed he had assigned extra investigators to the case of two different girls, Valerie Mack and Karen Vergata.
On the suspected time of the murders, Heuermann’s now ex-wife Asa Ellerup was away from dwelling. She filed for divorce lower than per week after he husband’s arrest.
The couple have two youngsters – daughter Victoria Heuermann, 26, who labored at her father’s agency; and son Christopher Sheridan, 33.
Ellerup sparked controversy after it emerged that she had accepted a $1 million documentary cope with Peacock which might contain crews filming at her husband’s trial.
Police are actually probing Rex Heuermann, 59, for his doable involvement within the deaths of Vergata and Mack. Heuermann has been charged within the killing of three different girls on Lengthy Island
Police confirmed they’re probing Heuermann’s potential hyperlink to the murders of two different intercourse employees: Valerie Mack, 25, went lacking across the summer season of 2000. Her stays have been positioned that September, and extra stays have been found practically 11 years later
The household dwelling in Massapequa Park was torn aside by authorities as they combed the property for proof
The deal was slammed by the households of the Gilgo Seashore victims as ‘evil’, with family claiming it’ll ‘re-victimize’ and ‘re-traumatize’ them.
The household’s Massapequa Park dwelling was ransacked by police throughout a search as officers dismantled their greenhouse and shredded up their sofa, based on Ellerup.
In September, Heuermann fought to cease not less than 50 unlawful weapons from being turned over to investigators.
The stash included ‘not less than 26 unregistered handguns, 15 unregistered assault weapons and ten high-capacity magazines seem to have been possessed,’ based on courtroom paperwork.
He had beforehand been positioned on suicide watch however has currently been described as ‘impassive’.
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