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By Jane Smith, Senior Correspondent, Emma James and Ruth Pashinski in Massapequa Park For Dailymail.Com 11:46 Jul 14, 2023 Updated 14:49 Jul 14, 2023
New York City architect Rex Heuermann, 59, has been arrested in connection with the Gilgo Beach murders on Long Island, in a surprising breakthrough in one of the country’s most notorious serial murder cases.
Heuermann was detained outside his Manhattan office last night after leaving today.
Today, his Massapequa Park home is flooded with cops. The unassuming property is located just north of Gilgo Beach, where the bodies of 10 women and a small child were found in 2010 and 2011, with only South Oyster Bay separating them.
Heuermann is married with two children, and has lived at home since the 1980s.
Law enforcement sources tell DailyMail.com he’s been on their radar since last year. Investigators compared it to the crimes by tracing phone calls made from cellphones to the victims’ cellphones more than 10 years ago.
The source added that “good and old cop work” solved the case and not any DNA developments.
New York City architect Rex Hauermann, 59, arrested in connection with the Gilgo Beach murders on Long Island In a shock breakthrough in one of the nation’s most notorious serial killing cases, Long Island architect Rex Hauermann, 59 has been arrested Years, today related to Gilgo beach serial murders case in big police hack. The suspect’s house is located just north of Gilgo Beach across South Oyster Bay. Hormann’s first marriage took place in 1990. Since then he has remarried.
The location of the phone calls matched Heuermann’s home address and office address. It remains unclear what specific evidence led to his arrest last night. He is scheduled to appear before a judge on Long Island at noon.
John Ray, the attorney representing the two victims’ families, told DailyMail.com they were given a warning a week in advance that an arrest was imminent.
We got advice about a week ago that they are about to do this.
“We have two names but obviously we don’t want to say unless we’re 100% sure.”
He confirmed to DailyMail.com that Heuermann’s name was among those they were looking for.
Ray believes the discovery of a man’s remains may have led to his arrest today.
Ray said that while the suspect arrested today is a man, he and his clients have always had an outside theory that a woman might be involved.
No one has been arrested in connection with the killings.
The New York Post cites Long Island law enforcement sources who say Heuermann is being considered for the first four murders — known as the Gilgo Beach Four — and not the five additional murders that were uncovered afterward.
The decade-long investigation has been described as one of the most “intense and prolific” hunts for a serial killer.
In 2020, a true crime podcast cast suspicion on former Suffolk County Police Commissioner James Burke.
Burke, who served time in prison for assaulting a local man while on duty, was the most senior cop from 2011 through 2015.
‘Gilgo Four’: These photos show the first four victims found a decade ago near Gilgo Beach, Long Island. As part of an investigation into a serial killer, the partial skeletal remains of Valerie Mack were found in a wooded area of Manorville in September . 2000: Partial skeletal remains of Jessica Taylor, an escort working in New York City, are found in a wooded area of Manorville on July 26, 2003 A map showing the whereabouts of the victims’ remains along the barren stretch of the Ocean Beach Parkway in Gilgo Beach, located in Gilgo Beach, remains discovered Skeleton of an Asian man along the Ocean Parkway on April 4, 2011. Police believe a transgender sex worker has been dead for up to five years
Among the victims was Shannan Gilbert, who was found dead in a swamp in Oak Beach in 2011 – about a quarter of a mile from where she was last seen alive.
The 24-year-old’s neck had been broken before she was killed and had a hole in it that could have been caused by a drill, according to her family’s lawyer.
The first victims were discovered in December 2010.
They were Maureen Brainard Barnes, 25, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, and Amber Costello, 27.
Known as the “Gilju Beach Four”, their bodies were found in burlap sacks.
Some of the four had been missing for three years by the time their bodies were found.
Heuermann in an interview about his architecture firm
They were all sex workers who advertised their services on Craiglist, leading police to believe that this was how the killer first contacted them.
Some also told their friends that they planned to meet a client the day before they went missing.
In March and April 2011, four more bodies were found in the same area, including that of a young child.
Jello Beach murder victim Megan Waterman stands in the lobby at the Holiday Inn Express in Hobbauge on June 6, 2010 who will later meet her would-be killer
They were Jessica Taylor, Valerie Mack, and an unidentified woman known as “Peaches” or “Jane Doe No. 3”.
Peach’s young daughter was also killed.
In the following weeks, two more sets of remains were found.
One belonged to an “Asian man” who is now believed to have been a transgender sex worker who died five or six years ago, and Jane Doe No. 7, whose remains were found on a beach in the popular tourist town of Fire Island.
Shannan Gilbert’s body was found in December 2011 in a bog about half a mile from where she was last seen alive.
An aerial view of the area near Gilgo Beach and the Ocean Parkway on Long Island
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