Suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heurman is due to appear in court again Thursday to face charges for the murders of two more women, sources told The Washington Post.
A hulking Manhattan architect-turned-murder suspect has been indicted and is scheduled to stand trial in the 2003 murders of Jessica Taylor and the 1993 murders of Sandra Costilla, officials said Wednesday.
The body of Taylor, a 20-year-old woman who worked as an escort in New York City, was discovered in a wooded area in Manorville on July 26, 2003. Another body of hers, originally named “Jane Doe No. 5”, was discovered along Ocean Parkway on March 29, 2011.
Kostila was killed in 1993 but was not previously included among the alleged Gilgo Beach victims. Investigators suspected convicted serial killer John Bittrollf of involvement in Kostila’s death, but he was never charged with her murder. The case remains one of several unsolved murders on Long Island.
Heurman, 60, is already charged with the murders of four other women whose bodies were found dumped along Ocean Parkway on Long Island’s South Shore.
The married father, who lives in Massapequa Park, was arrested on July 13, 2023, in connection to the murders of the women collectively known as the “Gilgo Four.”
He was originally charged with the murders of three women – Megan Waterman, 22, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, and Amber Lynn Costello, 27 – but in January was indicted on charges of the murder of a fourth woman, 25-year-old Maureen Brainerd Barnes.
Heuerman’s home has been searched twice since his arrest.
Police said an initial search last summer led to the discovery of a soundproof concrete room in the basement where the suspects were storing more than 200 guns, leading to the execution of a second arrest warrant last month.
Suffolk County prosecutors have linked Heurman to the murders through common DNA matches, including hairs found on a discarded pizza crust and an energy drink discarded by his daughter.
Investigators also used cell phone towers to locate calls that Heurman allegedly made to sexually-charged escorts he solicited on Long Island.
The case was left abandoned until early 2022, when former New York Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison became Suffolk County Police Commissioner and vowed to reopen the case.
He was identified as a suspect about two months later.
Brainerd Barnes was the first of the Gilgo Four to go missing, having disappeared after traveling by train from Connecticut to Grand Central Terminal in July 2007 and her body was discovered in December 2010.
Barthelemy went missing in July 2009 and was later discovered in a secluded spot along the coast where Costello and Waterman’s bodies were found in late 2010.
