Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuerman is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday on a fourth-degree murder charge in the death of Maureen Brainard Burns, according to reports.
Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney plans to announce the new charges as soon as they are revealed in the Riverhead courtroom. According to NBC News.
Heuerman, 60, was indicted on separate charges in December 2010 for the so-called “Gilgo Four” killings of sex workers strewn on Long Island beaches within days of each other and for the murder of Brainard Barnes. He was named the prime suspect.
Brainard Burns, who disappeared in 2007 at the age of 25, was found bound with a distinctive belt engraved with the initials “WH” or “HM,” which belonged to Heuerman's grandfather. Prosecutors had previously argued that it may have belonged to William Heuerman.
Heuerman, a New York City architect and married father of two, was arrested in July in connection with the infamous Gilgo Four scandal.
Authorities were able to identify Heuerman as the suspect in January after investigators matched DNA from victim Megan Waterman's hair taken from a discarded pizza peel to his.
Heuerman is accused of killing Waterman, 22, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, and Amber Lynn Costello, 27, after Brainard Burns was found. Her body was found wrapped in burlap within a few days near where she was killed.
All four women are believed to have been advertising as sex workers when they disappeared between 2007 and 2010.
The multi-year investigation that led to the arrests centered on the discovery of more than a dozen bodies along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach in Suffolk County between December 2010 and April 2011.
His arrest also came after Suffolk County established a special Gilgo Beach Murder Investigation Task Force in February 2022.
Mr. Heuerman's attorney responded to a request from the Post for comment on the new charges.
