The suspect in the Gilgo Beach serial killings was “trying to locate” some of the victims’ children, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said.
Rex Heuermann, suspect in the Gilgo Beach serial killings, “compulsively” searched for photos of the victims’ children, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said.
Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect, was arrested in suburban Massapequa Park, New York, on Long Island, Thursday night in connection to the slayings of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Amber Lynn Costello and Maureen Brainard-Barnes—collectively known as “The Gilgo Four.”
On Friday, Heuermann was charged in the killings of Barthelemy, Waterman and Costello, while being named as the “main suspect” in the death of Brainard-Barnes. A total of 11 sets of human remains were discovered across Long Island over the course of the investigation, which lasted more than a decade.
