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Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

suspect in long island serial killer case finally caught.

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Law Enforcement, Crime, True Crime, Military

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

The Gilgo Beach Mystery Finally Solved! The suspect in the Long Island Serial Killer case Rex Heuermann will finally be tried. A judge ruled that all 7 cases will be tried together.

Transcript

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0:00.0

on Gilgo Beach where a serial killer investigation was launched more than a dozen years ago.

0:05.0

Four dead women who came to be known as the Gilgo Four were discovered here in the brush off Ocean Parkway in December 2010.

0:14.0

Now police say they finally found the murderer.

0:18.0

He was living a double life.

0:21.6

He had a wife, he had two kids, nice job as an architect.

0:26.6

And Rex Heuerman, 59, probably never expected to be surrounded by cops in Midtown as he left work on a Thursday evening.

0:34.6

Rex, did you do it?

0:35.6

Still wearing the same khakis, the towering suspect, was accused of being the Gilgo

0:41.4

Beach, Long Island serial killer, known as LISC, who alluded law enforcement for more than

0:46.8

a dozen years.

0:47.9

You were aware that he was patronizing other sex workers?

0:50.4

It certainly appeared as though he was, yes.

0:52.3

While investigators in white Tyvec suits immediately descended on Hewerman's lifelong home in Massapequa Park, armed with search warrants,

1:02.1

the suspect was initially charged with murdering three of the Gilgo Four.

1:06.9

Megan Waterman, Melissa Bartholomey, and Amber Costello, all petite online escorts who were discovered dead in 2010 with another escort, Maureen Brainer Barnes, in the brush off Ocean Parkway.

1:20.4

The only thing I can tell you that he did say, as he was in tears, was I didn't do this.

1:25.9

Three of the sex workers were bound in burlap and Heuerman was named the prime suspect in the murder of the fourth,

1:32.2

Rainer Barnes.

1:33.6

Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Park Dees consulted on the case of serial killer Joel Rifkin,

1:39.6

another Long Island resident, and spoke to us about Hewerman's arrest.

1:43.5

The most common sexual motive for serial killings is sexual sadism. Becoming the god to that

1:51.1

victim is the offender's primal goal. The architect's neighbors on First Avenue in

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