Accused Gilgo Seashore killer Rex Heuermann’s estranged spouse, children return to Lengthy Island residence in surreal scene

Who have been the Gilgo Seashore victims?

Suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann — a New York Metropolis architect and married dad of two — was arrested in reference to the long-unsolved Gilgo Beach murders. The arrest is tied to the so-called “Gilgo 4,” girls discovered wrapped in burlap inside days of one another in late 2010.

The years-long investigation that led to the arrest revolved across the discovery of more than 10 sets of human remains alongside Ocean Parkway close to Gilgo Seashore in Suffolk County between December 2010 and April 2011.

Most victims have been petite feminine intercourse staff with inexperienced or hazel eyes. However there have been additionally two exceptions: a 2-year-old lady and a younger Asian man.

Melissa Barthelemy, 24

• Barthelemy was a intercourse employee who lived within the Unionport part of the Bronx and dreamed of at some point opening her personal magnificence salon. She was final seen alive in her basement condominium on Underhill Avenue on July 12, 2009.

Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25

• Brainard-Barnes was dwelling in Norwich, Connecticut. She went lacking after taking an Amtrak prepare from New London, Connecticut, to Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan on July 6, 2007.

Amber Lynn Costello, 27

• Costello, 27, was a intercourse employee and heroin addict who lived in West Babylon, New York, at a house with a girl and two males. She marketed on Craigslist and Backpage to help her and her roommates’ drug habits. Costello was present in December 2010 after having been final seen leaving her residence that September.

Megan Waterman, 22

• Waterman, a 22-year-old mother of 1, was final seen on June 6, 2010. She lived in Scarborough, Maine, and earned a dwelling as an escort. She was final seen by her household boarding a New York-bound Harmony Trailways bus in Maine. Her physique was discovered on December 13, 2010, on the north facet of Ocean Parkway, close to Gilgo Seashore.

Jessica Taylor, 20

• Stays belonging to Jessica Taylor, a 20-year-old girl working as an escort in New York Metropolis, have been present in a wooded space in Manorville on July 26, 2003. Her extra stays — initially labeled “Jane Doe No. 5” — have been found on March 29, 2011, alongside Ocean Parkway.

Valerie Mack, 24

• Valerie Mack was 24 years previous and dwelling in Philadelphia when she went lacking. She labored as an escort, utilizing the alias “Melissa Taylor.” Family members final noticed Mack within the spring or summer season of 2000 in Port Republic, New Jersey, however she was by no means reported as lacking to the police. Her partial skeletal stays have been present in Manorville in September 2000 however have been initially generally known as “Jane Doe No. 6.”

Unidentified Asian man

• The skeletal stays of a yet-to-be-identified Asian man have been discovered alongside Ocean Parkway on April 4, 2011. It’s estimated that the person was between 17 and 23 years previous on the time of his demise. He was roughly 5 toes 6 inches tall with dangerous tooth.

‘Peaches’ and her daughter

• An African American girl’s partial stays have been found in Hempstead Lake State Park again in 1997, and he or she had change into generally known as “Peaches” due to a bitten tattoo of a peach on her left breast. On April 4, 2011, police uncovered the stays of a toddler, who was about 2 years previous on the time of her demise. DNA testing confirmed that one of many skeletons was that of the 2-year-old lady’s mom, “Peaches.”

Jane Doe No. 7

• Stays discovered on April 11, 2011, together with the physique of the lady dubbed “Peaches” was linked by DNA to a physique that was discovered 15 years earlier on Fireplace Island. On April 20, 1996, skeletal stays of a younger white feminine have been found in Davis Park on Blue Level Seashore. Two units of stays, collectively generally known as “Jane Doe No. 7,” haven’t been recognized.

Shannan Gilbert, 23

• Gilbert was a Craigslist escort who lived in Jersey Metropolis, traveled along with her driver Michael Pak from Manhattan to satisfy a shopper, Joseph Brewer, at his residence within the Oak Seashore Affiliation on the morning of Could 1, 2010. She spoke with two neighbors earlier than disappearing. Her physique was found in a marsh close to Oak Seashore — about half a mile from the place she was final seen alive — on December 13, 2011.