Architect Accused in Gilgo Seaside Serial Killings Is Due Again in Courtroom

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — Rex Heuermann, the architect accused of murdering not less than three ladies and leaving their our bodies alongside a distant stretch of shoreline close to Lengthy Island’s Gilgo Seaside, is due again in courtroom for the primary time since his arraignment.

Heuermann is charged with killing Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Lynn Costello, who disappeared over 5 months in 2010. Prosecutors additionally say he’s additionally suspected within the demise of a fourth lady, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, who vanished in 2007.

All the ladies have been intercourse staff whose stays have been found close to to one another on a barrier island off Lengthy Island’s southern coast.

Investigators spent practically two weeks combing via Heuermann’s house in Massapequa Park, throughout a bay from the place the stays have been discovered.

The search included digging up the yard, dismantling a porch and a greenhouse and eradicating many contents of the home for testing. Heuermann’s spouse, Asa Ellerup, told the New York Put up that it left the house in shambles, with belongings piled in heaps, a part of her bathtub minimize away and furnishings damaged up.

“My sofa was fully shredded. I don’t even know if there’s any elements to the sofa,” mentioned Ellerup, who filed for divorce after her husband was arrested. She mentioned her two grownup kids, who additionally stay in the home, have been crying themselves to sleep.

Heuermann has pleaded not responsible to the costs. He was ordered jailed with out the potential for bail in his first courtroom look in mid-July.

Investigators say they cracked the case with the assistance of subtle cellphone location knowledge evaluation, DNA proof and an previous tip a couple of car seen parked outdoors the house of one of many victims.

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