Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann set to be hit with fifth murder charge
According to several reports, suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann has been charged with another murder this week.
Heuermann, 60, is expected to appear in court in Riverhead on Thursday for his arraignment. Newsday.
It comes after investigators involved in the Gilgo Beach cases began searching a wooded area in Manorville, New York, in April.
Heuermann was previously charged with the murder of four female sex workers.
He was arrested in July and initially charged with the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, and Amber Lynn Costello, 27.
In February, he was also charged with the murder of 25-year-old Maureen Brainard-Barnes.
Suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann is charged with another murder this week
Heuermann, an architect, has pleaded not guilty to the murders.
The searches come after the father of two’s home in Massapequa was raided following the discovery of the bodies.
The women were found wrapped in burlap more than a decade ago and buried along the remote stretch of Ocean Parkway on Long Island’s south shore.
Heuermann has pleaded not guilty to all counts and is currently in jail awaiting trial.
The women’s remains were discovered during the search for 23-year-old Shannan Gilbert, a New Jersey escort who disappeared in May 2010 after a panicked 911 call.
