New York architect Rex Heuermann is facing charges in the murders of three Gilgo Beach victims, court documents released by the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office revealed.
Mr Heuermann, 59, is accused of murdering Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello — all sex workers in their 20s who disappeared in the Long Island area before their bodies were found during a separate missing person investigation in 2010.
The women's remains along with the body of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, who is also believed to be one of the "Gilgo Four," were found within one-quarter mile of each other, similarly positioned and bound in a similar fashion by either belts or tape.
The unsolved murders sent fear through the shoreline community of Gilgo Beach but for more than a decade, few developments were made in the case. Last year, the Suffolk County Police Department, New York State Police, Suffolk County Sheriff's Office and the FBI revamped the probe into the killings that ultimately led to Mr Heuermann's bombshell arrest outside his Midtown office on Thursday. |
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