Hey everyone, it's Michael.

I'm back with another update in the story of the Long Island serial killer, a story that I've

been covering off and on since 2016.

If you haven't been keeping up with the updates I've released over the years, here's the short version.

In July of 2003, a 59-year-old architect named Rex Heurman, a man who lived in Massapequa Park,

New York, roughly 20 miles from Gilgo Beach, was arrested and charged with three murders.

Those were the murders of Melissa Bartholome, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello, three of the

four women known collectively as the Gilgo Four, whose bodies were reportedly

found in burlap sacks along the Ocean Parkway in December of 2010.

In my update from July 2023, I walked through the evidence that police had compiled

against Hureman.

This included his Chevrolet avalanche being matched to a witness description,

Burner phones belonging to him pinging in Massapequal Park, and DNA found at the crime scenes.

In my opinion, the case was overwhelming.

Then in July of 2004, he was charged with the murder of the fourth woman of the Gilgill Four,

Maureen Brainerd Barnes,

who had disappeared in 2007, two years before the others.

Then, in June of 2024, he was charged with two more murders, those of Jessica Taylor and

Sandra Costilla, which extended the known timeline of his crimes all the way back to 1993. I covered that in detail in one of my last updates, including the planning document recovered from his computer.

A deleted word file titled HK 2002-04, which laid out his crimes in the language of a project manager.

It listed potential dump sites, supply list, target profiles,

body preparation procedures. It was, without question, one of the most disturbing pieces

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