In a text message, a sister of one victim said her family wasn’t ready to speak publicly because they “really haven’t had a chance to process the news today.”
The news of an arrest came as a shock to some of the relatives after so many years waiting for a break in the case. Kathy Hochul said during an unrelated appearance on Long Island. “This is a day that is a long time in coming, and hopefully a day that will bring peace to this community and to the families - peace that has been long overdue,” New York Gov. Suffolk County prosecutors are asking that Heuermann be held without bail, citing the “heinous nature of these serial murders,” as well as recent searches he made for sadistic materials, including sexually exploitive images of children.Īfter linking Heuermann to the pickup truck, prosecutors said investigators were able to connect him to other evidence, including the burner cellphones used to arrange meetings with the slain women, and taunting calls that a person claiming to be the killer made to one of Barthelemy’s relatives using her cellphone after she disappeared in 2009.
Voice and email messages were left at Heuermann’s Manhattan office and at possible numbers for his home and family today.
He pleaded not guilty at an arraignment today in Riverhead and was ordered jailed without bail.Ī message seeking comment was left with his lawyer. In recent months, authorities said, Heuermann sought to keep tabs on the probe, conducting hundreds of internet searches for the names of women he’s accused of killing, as well as podcasts and documentaries about the case. Detectives eventually recovered his DNA and matched it to genetic material recovered from the bodies, which were bound up and hidden in thick underbrush along a remote beach highway.
Heuermann, 59, was arrested late Thursday in Massapequa amid a renewed investigation that tied him to a pickup truck that a witness reported seeing when one of the victims disappeared in 2010. He is also considered the prime suspect in another killing, authorities said. Rex Heuermann, who has lived for decades across a bay from where the remains were found, is charged with killing Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello. RIVERHEAD, NY > A Long Island architect has been charged with murder in the deaths of three of the 11 victims in a long-unsolved string of killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders.
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