The Gilgo Beach Mystery Finally Solved! (
Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories
Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories
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🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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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. |
| 0:22.6 | He had a wife. He had two kids. |
| 0:24.6 | Nice job as an architect. |
| 0:26.6 | And Rex Heuerman, 59, probably never expected to be surrounded by cops in Midtown |
| 0:32.6 | as he left work on a Thursday evening. |
| 0:34.6 | Rex, did you do it? |
| 0:36.6 | Still wearing the same khakis, the towering suspect was accused of being the Gilgo Beach |
| 0:42.1 | Long Island serial killer known as LISC, who alluded law enforcement for more than a dozen years. |
| 0:47.8 | You were aware that he was patronizing other sex workers? |
| 0:50.5 | It certainly appeared as though he was, yes. |
| 0:52.5 | While investigators in white Tyvec suits immediately descended on Hewerman's lifelong home in |
| 0:58.5 | Massapequa Park, armed with search warrants, the suspect was initially charged with murdering |
| 1:04.9 | three of the Gilgo four. |
| 1:07.0 | Megan Waterman, Melissa Bartholomey, and Amber Costello, all petite online escorts who were discovered dead in 2010 with another escort, Maureen Raynard 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 Hewerman was named the prime suspect |
| 1:30.9 | in the murder of the fourth, Rainer Barnes. |
| 1:33.7 | Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Park Dees consulted on the case of serial killer Joel Rifkin, |
| 1:39.7 | another Long Island resident, and spoke to us about Hewerman's arrest. |
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