FRIDAY NIGHT SPECIAL : Bombshell Court DNA Ruling in Rex Heuerman Serial Murder Prosecution
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 18 October 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Police arrest prominent New York architect Rex Heuerman in connection with the Gilgo Beach serial killings. Rex Heuerman,59, is charged in multiple deaths of women whose bodies were found buried. These include Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello.
The women's remains were found along Gilgo Beach in Long Island within 500 feet of each other. However, investigators have found a total of eleven bodies but Heuerman is not charged in all. Seven so far. Heuermann claims he is innocent.
Now a judge rules that evidence collected through cutting-edge DNA technology will be admissible at his trial. Prosecutors say the DNA points directly at Rex Heuermann. The technology specializes in extracting nuclear DNA from damaged or hard-to-get samples, such as rootless hair, like those found on six of the victims.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- John Ray - Attorney for family of Shannan Gilbert
- Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst (Beverly Hills): Twitter: @DrBethanyLive
- Deputy Police Commissioner Anthony M. Carter - Suffolk County Police Department
- Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University; Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet" and Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan;" Twitter: @JoScottForensic
- Todd G. Shipley, CFE, CFCE - Cyber crime expert, Author: “Investigating Internet Crimes: An Introduction to Solving Crimes in Cyberspace;" Twitter: @webcase
- Toby Wolson - Forensic Consultant Specializing in DNA, Serology and Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
- Kristin Thorne- Investigative Reporter for WABC Channel 7 Eyewitness News in New York, and Host of Hulu’s true-crime show, “Missing;" @KristinThorne on Facebook, Twitter, Insta, Threads, & LinkedIn
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.4 | Well, it's Friday night, and it's time for a Friday night special. |
| 0:16.3 | And let me tell you, it's special. |
| 0:19.8 | Rex Heerman is accused of being the Long Island serial killer. |
| 0:24.8 | And in the last days, a bombshell. |
| 0:28.9 | A Gilgo Beach case a bombshell blows up in the courtroom as the judge issues a ruling on using DNA evidence at the accused |
| 0:40.0 | serial killers trial. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:44.0 | This is crime stories. |
| 0:45.0 | I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:48.6 | The judge has ruled damning DNA evidence tying Rex Heerman to the murders of multiple women whose remains found, |
| 0:57.5 | buried near Gilgo Beach, lined up like a cemetery, will be allowed in trial. |
| 1:05.6 | Repeat, will be allowed in trial. |
| 1:09.1 | This is a major ruling. This is really the only way this case can be proven. |
| 1:14.7 | There are no eyewitnesses. There are no confessions. We need that DNA to prove this case. |
| 1:20.4 | In a very brief court hearing, New York State Supreme Court Justice Timothy Mazzai rules the critical DNA evidence |
| 1:30.3 | using new DNA technology will be admissible. This is a major blow to Hewerman's defense. |
| 1:41.3 | What exactly do we know about the murders? Rex Heerman, a very well-respected architect, |
| 1:52.0 | now behind bars in the deaths of many women connected in time, in location, many of them sex workers, all of them, daughters, |
| 2:10.6 | mothers, sisters, girlfriends. We've waited a long time for this day to come, for the Long Island serial |
| 2:22.0 | killer to be unmasked for the devil that he is. I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. |
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