BREAKING: Authorities identify man charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of three women in the Gilgo Beach case, court records show.
architect Rex Heuermann is charged with the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello, whose bodies were found covered in burlap along Ocean Parkway on Long Island's South Shore in December 2010, according to court records unsealed Friday in Suffolk County Criminal Court.
A fourth victim, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, who vanished in July 2007, was also tied to the three women. While Heuermann is not charged in the death of Brainard-Barnes, the court document said he is the "prime suspect in her death." Other searches were "related to active and known serial killers," and the disappearances of the Gilgo Beach victims. One search, according to court records, was, "Why hasn't the Long Island serial killer been caught."
Over the next year, the bodies of seven more women, a man and a toddler were discovered in the same general area.
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