A police search this week in a remote area on Long Island is not connected to suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann. Instead, police sources told The New York Post, investigators are looking for evidence in the 1993 murder of Sandra Costilla, which they hope to tie to convicted murderer John Bittrolff, 57. Investigators …
Police are searching a wooded area in Manorville, New York, in connection with the Gilgo Beach murders investigation. Newsday reports that police and a K-9 were spotted at Wading River Manor Road Wednesday morning before searching a wooded area off Ryerson Avenue shortly after noon. Customers at the nearby “The Maples bar” told the outlet …
The wife of Long Island serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann issued an unsolicited statement last week saying she has given her husband “the benefit of the doubt” and doesn’t believe he is capable of murder. Asa Ellerup, married to Heuermann for 27 years, filed for divorce less than a week after his arrest for the …
Long Island serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann was in court Tuesday for a status hearing on the murder case against him. The Manhattan architect is charged with killed four women found dead along Gilgo Beach in 2010 and has pleaded not guilty. His attorney, Michael Brown, said Heuermann is receiving counseling behind bars — he’s …
Accused Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann was at a Long Island court Tuesday, marking his first court appearance since his indictment last month for the murder of a fourth woman. Heuremann, 60, entered the Suffolk County Courthouse in Riverhead before Justice Timothy Mazzei for an update on his case. The hearing follows a previous …
An attorney representing several Long Island serial killer victims is pushing for investigations beyond New York, asserting that accused killer Rex Heuermann likely had more victims. “It is clear that the [Gilgo Beach] Task Force is not big enough, strong enough, organized enough to handle all these cases that are multi-state,” attorney John Ray said …
Accused Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann reportedly remains in a secure housing unit as he awaits trial for killing four women in New York. Last week, Heuermann, 60, was formally charged with the 2007 slaying of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, whose remains were found near Gilgo Beach in 2010. Suffolk County Sheriff Errol D. Toulon …
“Burner” phones connected to accused serial killer Rex Heuermann showed hundreds of contacts with sex workers in the years before his arrest last year, a newly filed court document says. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the 60-year-old Manhattan architect was charged with the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes earlier this week, adding the fourth of the so-called …
Accused Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann is due in a New York court on Tuesday, amid reports that he will be charged with a fourth murder. A source close to the case told NBC News that Suffolk County prosecutors will announce the new charges against Heuermann after they are unsealed in court. Heuermann is …
Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann is expected to be in court next week for reasons that have not been disclosed officially, but the summons could be related to the murder of a fourth woman, Newsday reports. Multiple, unnamed sources told the newspaper that a special grand jury has been weighing charges against the …
New York lawmakers recently filed legislation to stop defendants’ family members from profiting from their crimes amid reports that the suspected Long Island Serial Killer’s estranged wife was paid for an upcoming docuseries. Film crews reportedly followed Asa Ellerup to Rex Heuermann’s latest court appearance. A Peacock spokesperson told WCBS that Ellerup was not compensated …
DNA found on the remains of some of the Long Island victims matches that of cheek swab samples taken from murder suspect Rex Heuermann’s wife. A law enforcement source told Newsday that samples were taken from Asa Ellerup on July 13, the day her husband was charged with the murders of three of the so-called …
