Rex Heuermann faces murder charges for the deaths of three women and is the prime suspect in the death of a fourth.
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.
“Each of the four victims were found similarly positioned, bound in a similar fashion by either belts or tape, with three of the victims found wrapped in a burlap-type material,” US District Attorney Ray Tierney said.
