Accused Gilgo Beach killer Rex Heuermann kept NY Post article, other clippings about the murders: prosecutors
Accused Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann kept tabs on the investigation into the grisly slayings for years — by reading The Post, new court filings reveal.
Cops executing a search warrant at Heuermann’s Massapequa Park home in May found a copy of a July 29, 2003, Post article about the bodies popping up along Ocean Parkway — two decades before the hulking architect was charged with killing more than a half-dozen of the women.
“Serial Killer Eyed in L.I. Slay,” the headline reads, with the article revealing deals of two missing women — Jessica Taylor and Valerie Mack, who, on Tuesday, became the seventh victim tied to Heuermann.
The news clipping was found in Heuermann’s bedroom with other reports.
According to a superseding indictment filed by Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney, the article was among a trove of news clippings and online reports that the accused killer kept of his alleged slayings.
Heuermann, 60, was tied to Mack’s slaying through DNA — hairs on the victim that linked to his wife, Asa Ellerup, and daughter, Victoria Heuermann, the document said.
Mack, 24, was a sex worker, as were the other victims whose remains were found more than a decade ago.
She used the name “Melissa Taylor” while working as a prostitute, and was last seen in the spring or summer of 2000, with her partial skeletal remains found in Manorville in September 2000.
More of her remains were discovered along Ocean Parkway in April 2011, near the victims commonly know as the “Gilgo Four,” which prompted the investigation that ended with Heuermann’s arrest.
Heuermann, who was arrested outside his Manhattan office last year, is charged with seven murders — Mack, Jessica Taylor, 20, Megan Waterman, 22, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, Sandra Costilla, 28, and Amber Lynn Costello, 27.
Hairs found on the bodies all tied to Heuermann through DNA matches, prosecutors said.
In addition to The Post report, prosecutors said police found copies of articles from People and New York magazine about the killings, among others.
In all, 11 sets of remains were found dumped along Long Island.
