July 14, 2023, published at 6:15 p.m. ET
The infamous Long Island suspect Rex Heuerman was arrested and charged with the murders of three women in the Gilgo Beach murders, but RadarOnline.com can reveal that the architect has learned the tricks of the murder trade by going to the CSI TV serials.
“Anyone who watches these programs on TV knows very well the investigative techniques of the police,” said the police. Richard Dormerthe Suffolk County Police Commissioner.
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Since 1996, the remains of eight women, a male transvestite and a little girl have been found dumped all over Long Island. According to investigators, the killer attempted to remove an identifying tattoo from one victim. He also cut up the adults, wrapped their body parts in burlap or plastic, and scattered the pieces around the island.
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Rex Heuermann arrested at his home in Massapequa Park
“The two bodies they found inland were decapitated and their hands removed and dumped separately — that was so the victims couldn’t be identified,” says Vernon Geberth, a former New York City detective who wrote the textbook S.ex-related murder and death investigation.
“We found remains of the same body near Gilgo Beach and more than 40 miles away in Manorville. We found remains along Ocean Parkway connected to two legs found nearly 20 miles away at David Park on Fire Island.
“And there was a toddler who was connected to the remains of a woman found miles away. We think they were mother and daughter. The Asian man was a small type of person who wore women’s clothes. Our theory is that he may have been involved in the sex trade.”
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Five of the women have been identified as Amber Lynn Costello27, Megan Waterman22, Maureen Brainard-Barnes25, Jessica Taylor20 and melissa barthélemy24. Many researchers believe the sick also killed these four women in Atlantic City, NJ — Molly Jean Dilts20, Kim Rafo35, Barbara Breidor42, and Tfeisty Ann Roberts23.
Victims Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello
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In a sick twist, the psychopath used Barthelemy’s cell phone to call the deceased woman’s 16-year-old sister, Amanda. He played a sadistic cat-and-mouse game with the girl, pretending her sister was alive to keep her on the line during a series of phone calls.
None of the calls lasted more than three minutes.
“He was careful enough that the calls couldn’t be traced by the police technicians,” criminal profiler Louis Schlesinger told RadarOnline.com a decade ago. “The person could be an agent, or someone familiar with the procedure, or he could just be watching CSI.”
All of the women were reportedly prostitutes plying their trade through the Craigslist website. They were all contacted via disposable cell phones so that the police could not trace the killer. And the police think the killer is responsible for the disappearance of another Craigslist hooker, Shannan Gilbert23. The police believe they have now found her skeletal remains,” Schlesinger explained.
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“On a CSI show, we talk about things we do to solve crimes,” the former agent admitted Larry Mitchell, a consultant for the CSI series. “We talk about the things we do to avoid contaminating crime scenes.”
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Heuermann was arrested on Thursday in connection with the deaths of Barthelemy, Waterman and Costello. All three victims were discovered in December 2010 in Gilgo Beach.
Heuermann pleaded not guilty to the six charges on Friday in a Yaphank, New York, courtroom. He faces three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of second-degree murder.
If convicted, he faces life in prison without parole.