Rex Heuermann, the alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer, will be back in court on Thursday to face additional charges in connection to the case on Long Island. The New York architect was most recently charged with killing two women who were long suspected of being the victims of men preying on sex workers.
The background shows a wooden cross in the marsh next to Gilgo Beach, N. He was previously accused of killing four other women, one of whom was headed to Manhattan for sex work, and never came back.
Most of the Gilgo Beach murder victims were young female escorts. The details of the encounters are still unknown at this time and the investigation remains ongoing. Heuermann is due back in court on July Most of the victims were young women who had been sex workers.
Several of the bodies were found near the town of Gilgo Beach. The bodies of the "Gilgo Four" were located within a quarter-mile of one another near Gilgo Beach in December Shannan Gilbert, a year-old sex worker, vanished on May 1, A police officer and his cadaver dog were looking for her body in the thicket along nearby Ocean Parkway when they happened upon the remains of a different woman.
Within days, three other bodies were found, all within a short walk of one another. Gilbert's disappearance and search is what ultimately led to the discovery of several remains in the area. Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, was working as a sex worker before she went missing. Melissa Barthelemy, 24, last seen at her home in the Bronx, was a sex worker.
