Gilgo Beach murder suspect Rex Heuermann to be charged with murders of two more women
Suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann will be charged in the murders of two additional women when he’s hauled back to court Thursday, sources told The Post.
The hulking Manhattan architect-turned-murder suspect will be arraigned on an indictment in the 2003 death of Jessica Taylor and the 1993 slaying of Sandra Costilla, sources said Wednesday.
The remains of Taylor, a 20-year-old woman working as an escort in New York City, were found in a wooded area in Manorville on July 26, 2003. Her additional remains — initially labeled “Jane Doe No. 5” — were discovered on March 29, 2011, along Ocean Parkway.
Costilla was murdered in 1993 but had not been included among the so-called Gilgo Beach victims — until now. Investigators suspected convicted serial killer John Bittrolff in Costilla’s death, but he was never charged in her slaying — which remains one of several unsolved Long Island murders.
Heuermann, 60, is already charged in the deaths of four other women whose remains were found dumped along Ocean Parkway on Long Island’s South Shore.
The married Massapequa Park dad was arrested on July 13, 2023, in the deaths of the women, who are known collectively as the “Gilgo Four.”
He was originally charged with three of the murders — Megan Waterman, 22; Melissa Barthelemy, 24; and Amber Lynn Costello, 27 — until January, when he was charged with the murder of a fourth woman, 25-year-old Maureen Brainard-Barnes.
The Heuermann home has been searched twice since he was arrested.
Who is Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann?
A suspected serial killer has been arrested over the notorious Gilgo Beach murders in Long Island, The Post can confirm.
Rex Heuermann, 59, a married dad of two and architect at a New York City firm, has a home on 1st Avenue in Massapequa Park, sources told The Post.
His arrest is tied to the “Gilgo Four,” four women — Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, Amber Lynn Costello, 27, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25 — found wrapped in burlap within days of each other in 2010.
The body of Barthelemy was first found along Ocean Parkway on Dec. 11, 2010, sparking fears of a serial killer in the area.
By spring 2011, the number of bodies had climbed to 10, including eight women as well as an unidentified man and toddler.
Heuermann’s arrest comes after Suffolk County’s new police commissioner created a special Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation Task Force in February 2022.
Cops said they found a concrete, sound-proof room in the basement where he kept more than 200 guns during the first search of the house last summer, with a second warrant executed last month.
Suffolk County prosecutors said Heuermann was linked to the slayings through general DNA matches — including from hair found on a discarded pizza crust and on an energy drink his daughter threw away.
Investigators also used cell phone towers to pinpoint calls Heuermann allegedly made to the victims, who were sex escorts he solicited on Long Island.
The case sat dormant until the start of 2022, when former NYPD chief Rodney Harrison took over as Suffolk County police commissioner and vowed to reopen the case.
He was identified as a suspect about two months later.
Brainard-Barnes was the first of the “Gilgo Four” to go missing, disappearing in July 2007 after taking a train from Connecticut to Grand Central Terminal, with her body found in December 2010.
Barthelemy disappeared in July 2009 and was also later found along the lonely stretch of the waterfront, where the remains of Costello and Waterman were discovered in late 2010.
