Suspect Charged in 3 Gilgo Beach Killings Is Expected to Appear in Court
He has pleaded not guilty to the charges, which will be prosecuted by Raymond A. Tierney, the Suffolk County district attorney.
Mr. Heuermann has not been charged in the other eight killings, though Mr. Tierney said last month he was the prime suspect in the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, who went missing in July 2007. Ms. Costello, Ms. Waterman, Ms. Barthelemy and Ms. Brainard-Barnes all worked as escorts and their bodies were found close together.
The arrest came soon after a multiagency task force examined every element of the case. Investigators focused on collecting and retesting DNA evidence, as well as cellphone records.
The three women Mr. Heuermann is accused of killing had been contacted by several different burner phones from two locations — near his home on First Avenue in Massapequa Park and near his office at Fifth Avenue and 36th Street in Manhattan — that would eventually link him to the crimes.
Since then, more details about Mr. Heuermann have emerged. High school classmates have described him as a loner bullied by his peers, but a victim with a mean streak. Last month, prosecutors and the police called him a sadistic serial killer who liked perverse pornography and who kept an arsenal of weapons in a basement vault.
Source: The New York Times
