Suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heurman is scheduled to appear in court again this week on new murder charges, according to reports.
Sources told The Post that Heurman, 60, is scheduled to appear Thursday before State Supreme Court Judge Timothy Mazzei in Riverhead to be arraigned.
Newsday, citing anonymous sources, reported that the charges relate to additional murders.
Sources did not tell Newsday what new charges Heuermann faces.
This comes just weeks after police searched the Manorville area where the remains of Gilgo Beach victims Jessica Taylor and Valerie Mack were found more than 20 years ago, and again at Heurman’s Massapequa Park home.
Despite a wealth of circumstantial evidence, investigators have yet to determine where Heuerman’s alleged victims were killed before being dumped on local beaches, and his home was searched a second time last month, law enforcement sources told The Washington Post at the time.
An attorney for Huerman, Michael J. Brown, and an attorney for his estranged wife, Asa Elerup, confirmed last month that authorities were searching the home of Huerman, a father of two currently incarcerated for the murders of four women more than a decade ago.
Who were the Gilgo Beach victims?
Suspected serial killer Rex Heuerman, a New York City architect and married father of two, was arrested in connection with the long-unsolved Gilgo Beach murders, which are linked to the so-called “Gilgo Foursome,” women found wrapped in burlap just days apart in late 2010.
The years-long investigation that led to the arrests revolved around the discovery of more than a dozen human bones along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach in Suffolk County between December 2010 and April 2011.
Most of the victims were petite female prostitutes with green or hazel eyes, but there were two exceptions: a two-year-old girl and a young Asian man.
Melissa Barthelemy, 24
- Barthelemy, a sex worker from the Unionport neighborhood of the Bronx who dreamed of one day opening her own beauty salon, was last seen alive in her Underhill Avenue basement apartment on July 12, 2009.
Maureen Brainerd Burns,twenty five
- Brainerd Barnes, 28, of Norwich, Connecticut, went missing on July 6, 2007 after traveling on an Amtrak train from New London, Connecticut to Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. Her body was discovered in December 2010.
Amber Lynn Costello27
- Costello, 27, was a sex worker and heroin addict who lived with one woman and two men in West Babylon, New York. Costello had posted ads on Craigslist and Backpage to support his and his roommate’s drug habits. Costello was last seen leaving his home on September 2, 2010, and was discovered on December 13, 2010.
Megan Waterman,twenty two
- Waterman was 22 years old and a mother of one. She was last seen on June 6, 2010. She lived in Scarborough, Maine and worked as an escort. She was last seen in Maine boarding a Concord Trailways bus with her family bound for New York. Her body was found on December 13, 2010, just north of Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach.
Jessica Taylor20
- The body of Jessica 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 her, originally named “Jane Doe No. 5”, was discovered along Ocean Parkway on March 29, 2011.
Valerie Mack,twenty four
- Valerie Mack was 24 years old and living in Philadelphia when she went missing. She worked as an escort under the alias “Melissa Taylor”. Mack was last seen by relatives in the spring or summer of 2000 in Port Republic, New Jersey, but was never reported missing to police. Her partial skeletal remains were discovered in Manorville in September 2000, and she was initially referred to as “Jane Doe No. 6”. On April 4, 2011, more bones were discovered along Ocean Parkway.
Unidentified Asian man
- The skeletal remains of an unidentified Asian male were discovered along Ocean Parkway on April 4, 2011. At the time of his death, the man was estimated to have been between 17 and 23 years old. He was approximately 5 feet 6 inches tall and had bad teeth.
“Peaches” and her daughter
- In 1997, the remains of an African-American woman were discovered at Lake Hempstead State Park. She was nicknamed “Peaches” because of the tattoo of a bitten peach on her left breast. On April 4, 2011, police discovered the remains of an infant who was two years old at the time of her death. DNA testing confirmed that one of the remains belonged to “Peaches,” the mother of the two-year-old girl.
Karen Vergata
- The victim, previously known as Jane Doe 7, was identified as Karen Vergata, a 34-year-old Manhattan woman. Vergata is believed to have disappeared around February 14, 1996, and her feet were found in a plastic bag two months later in a park near Blue Point Beach on Fire Island. At the time of her disappearance, Vergata was believed to have been working as an escort. In August 2023, two sets of Vergata’s remains were identified.
Shannan Gilbert,twenty three
- Gilbert was a Craigslist escort from Jersey City who traveled with her driver, Michael Pak, from Manhattan to her Oak Beach home on the morning of May 1, 2010 to meet client Joseph Brewer. She vanished after speaking with two neighbors. Her body was found in a swamp near Oak Beach on December 13, 2011, about a half-mile from where she was last seen alive.
“Elerap’s lawyer, Robert Macedonio, said: [new] No arrests have been made and the family does not expect any to be made.”
This is the second time authorities have searched Heuerman’s home and grounds since arresting him last year in connection with the “Gilgo Four” murders.
The women – Amber Lynn Costello, 27, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Nicole Brainerd Smith, 24, and Megan Waterman, 22 – were prostitutes who solicited clients on Craigslist and other online sites.
Their bodies were discovered in isolated sandy areas along Ocean Parkway between 2010 and 2011, but their murders remained a mystery for more than a decade until police reopened the case in 2022 and identified Heuerman as a suspect.
Heurman has been held at Riverhead Correctional Facility in Suffolk County since his arrest.
