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Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Police have called the Gilgo Beach murders “one of the most consequential homicide investigations” in Long Island’s history. The search for missing sex worker Shannan Gilbert led to the grisly discovery of 10 other bodies on a stretch of beach along the island’s South Shore. Now, nearly 13 years […]

Alleged Gilgo serial killer Rex Heuermann appears before Judge Timothy P. Mazzei with his attorney Michael Brown at Suffolk County Court, Jan. 16, 2024, in Riverhead, N.Y. (James Carbone/Pool/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Gilgo Beach suspect Rex Heuermann has been charged with two additional murders and is now accused of killing six women dating as […]

Alleged Gilgo serial killer Rex Heuermann appears before Judge Timothy P. Mazzei with his attorney Michael Brown at Suffolk County Court, Jan. 16, 2024, in Riverhead, N.Y. (James Carbone/Pool/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Suffolk County prosecutors have linked Rex Heuermann to the deaths of two more women and will unseal new charges Wednesday in connection […]

Mint Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Among the new evidence against alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann is “cutting edge” DNA evidence, the district attorney told ABC News. Heuermann was charged Tuesday with the murder of a fourth woman, 25-year-old escort Maureen Brainard-Barnes, who disappeared in 2007. Heuermann had already been charged in July […]

seng kui Lim / 500px/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Alleged serial killer Rex Heuermann returns to court next week on Long Island where he is expected to be charged in the death of a fourth woman whose remains were found in a marshy spot near Gilgo Beach, multiple sources told ABC News. Heuermann, 60, is […]

amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A DNA sample taken from the estranged wife of the alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer matches her genetic material that was found on the remains of victims, law enforcement sources told ABC News. Investigators obtained a cheek swab from Asa Ellerup the night her husband, Rex Heuermann, was arrested for […]

Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The estranged wife of Gilgo Beach, New York, murder suspect Rex Heuermann attended one of his court appearances for the first time on Wednesday. Asa Ellerup filed for divorce six days after Heuermann’s July arrest for the murders of three sex workers. He has pleaded not guilty. Heuermann’s routine […]

WIN-Initiative/Neleman/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The attorney for Gilgo Beach, New York, murder suspect Rex Heuermann on Wednesday denied that his client is a “monster of a person” and maintained Heuermann’s innocence. Heuermann returned to court Wednesday following his July arrest for the murders of three sex workers — Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber […]

Mint Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Authorities have identified another victim in the Gilgo Beach, New York, murders investigation, officials announced Friday, though police have not said if this new victim is linked to suspect Rex Heuermann. Jane Doe No. 7, whose remains were found on Long Island’s Fire Island on April 20, 1996, has […]

ATU Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The wife of Rex Heuermann, the suspect arrested on suspicion of murdering three women in the Gilgo Beach, Long Island, area told ABC News Monday that “everything is destroyed” following the arrest of her husband. Asa Ellerup told ABC News in a phone call that she and her two […]