Rex Heuermann, 59, has been arrested in connection with four Gilgo Beach murders, over a decade after authorities discovered 11 sets of human remains on Long Island.
Former prosecutor and Fox Nation host Nancy Grace says she is ‘elated’ for the victim’s families but is ‘distraught’ that the suspect is married with children.Gilgo Beach serial killerHeuermann, 59, is accused of killing four women whose bodies were discovered along a suburban Long Island beach highway between 2010 and 2011.
Former neighbor Carol Bergen told Fox News Digital that Heuermann once asked her brother if he cried at their father's funeral after he died.Massapequa Park is a clean-cut neighborhood where residents keep up with manicured landscaping and hang American flags off their front porches. Several homeowners in Heuermann's neighborhood are local police officers, and a closed police academy is located down the street from the suspect's home.
Suffolk County police stationed outside a home in Massapequa Park, New York, Friday, July 14, 2023. The home is believed to be occupied by a suspect in the Gilgo Beach murders. Heuermann was a 1981 graduate of Berner High School in Massapequa, according to locals and yearbooks. Gilgo Beach is seen on July 14, 2023 in Babylon, New York. A suspect in the Gilgo Beach killings was arrested in the unsolved case tied to at least 10 sets of human remains that were discovered since 2010 in suburban Long Island. The suspect Rex Heuermann is expected to be arraigned after his arrest Thursday night.
The women Heuermann is accused of killing are four of 11 victims found deceased along Gilgo Beach some 13 years ago. The identified victims have been named as Barthelemy, Costello, Waterman and Brainard-Barnes, as well as Shannan Gilbert, Jessica Taylor and Valerie Mack. were identified as sex workers in their 20s, although two sets of remains belonged to a 2-year-old girl and a young Asian male.Shannan Gilbert smiles in this undated photo.
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