Gilgo Beach suspect Rex Heuermann in court for first time since indictment for fourth slaying
NY Post
Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann appeared in a Long Island court Tuesday for the first time since being indicted last month on charges of killing a fourth woman.
Heuermann, 60, silently entered the Suffolk County Courthouse in Riverhead wearing a black suit and white shirt — marking his first time back before Justice Timothy Mazzei since he pleaded not guilty on Jan. 16 to an indictment charging him with killing sex worker Maureen Brainard-Barnes, a 25-year-old mom of two, in 2007.
The hearing was scheduled to give the judge an update on the progress of the case.
Heuermann, an architect and married father of two, had already been behind bars since his July arrest for the killings of Amber Lynn Costello, 27, Melissa Bethelemy, 24, and Megan Waterman, 22 — who, along with Brainard-Barnes, make up the tragic so-called “Gilgo Four.”
Heuermann was tied to the murders of the prior three women through DNA found on a discarded pizza box. He was connected to the July 9, 2007, slaying of Brainard-Barnes — the first of the “Gilgo Four” to go missing while working as a call girl — through DNA evidence taken off the Monster energy beverage from which his 26-year daughter, Victoria, drank, officials said last month.
Heuermann is charged with three counts of first-degree murder and four counts of second-degree murder. He has pleaded not guilty.
