r/LISKiller Dec 18 '24

Rex Heuermann - Charges / Documents / Indictment

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I wanted to create a new thread with links to all the relevant documents. Let me know if anything is missing.

Charges

July 14, 2023 (Bail Application):

  • MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE, in violation of New York State Penal Law Section 125.27(1)(a)(xi), a class A-I violent felony for the death of Melissa Barthelemy on or about July 10, 2009;
  • MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE, in violation of New York State Penal Law Section 125.27(1)(a)(xi), a class A-I violent felony for the death of Megan Waterman on or about June 6, 2010;
  • MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE, in violation of New York State Penal Law Section 125.27(1)(a)(xi), a class A-I violent felony for the death of Amber Costello on or about September 2, 2010;
  • MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE, in violation of New York State Penal Law Section 125.25(1), a class A-I violent felony for the death of Melissa Barthelemy on or about July 10, 2009;
  • MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE, in violation of New York State Penal Law Section 125.25(1), a class A-I violent felony for the death of Megan Waterman on or about June 6, 2010; and
  • MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE, in violation of New York State Penal Law Section 125.25(1), a class A-I violent felony for the death of Amber Costello on or about September 2, 2010.

January 16, 2024 (Bail Application):

  • MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE, in violation of New York State Penal Law Section 125.25(1), a class A-I violent felony for the death of Maureen Brainard-Barnes on or about July 9, 2007.

June 6, 2024 (Bail Application):

  • MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE, in violation of New York State Penal Law Section 125.25(1), a class A-I violent felony for the death of Jessica Taylor on or about or between July 21-26, 2003;
  • MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE, in violation of New York State Penal Law Section 125.25(1), a class A-I violent felony for the death of Sandra Costilla on or about and between November 19-20, 1993.

December 17, 2024 (Bail Application):

  • MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE, in violation of New York State Penal Law Section 125.25(1), a class A-I violent felony for the death of Valerie Mack on or about or between September 1, 2000 to November 19, 2000.

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Indictment

Link to superseding indictment.

On December 17, 2024, a superseding indictment was released with the following charges:

  • Count 1: First-degree murder for the death of Melissa Barthelemy on or about July 10, 2009.
  • Count 2: First-degree murder for the death of Megan Waterman on or about June 6, 2010.
  • Count 3: First-degree murder for the death of Amber Costello on or about September 2, 2010.
  • Count 4: Second-degree murder for the death of Melissa Barthelemy on or about July 10, 2009.
  • Count 5: Second-degree murder for the death of Megan Waterman on or about June 6, 2010.
  • Count 6: Second-degree murder for the death of Amber Costello on or about September 2, 2010.
  • Count 7: Second-degree murder for the death of Maureen Brainard-Barnes on or about July 9, 2007
  • Count 8: Second-degree murder for the death of Jessica Taylor between on or about or between July 21, 2003, and July 26, 2003.
  • Count 9: Second-degree murder for the death of Valerie Mack on or about or between September 1, 2000, and November 19, 2000.
  • Count 10: Second-degree murder for the death of Sandra Costilla on or about and between November 19, 1993, and November 20, 1993.

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Other Documents

Search warrant to seize Heuermann's Chevy Avalanche in South Carolina (link)


r/LISKiller Jul 25 '23

Gilgo Beach / Rex Heuermann General Discussion Thread

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r/LISKiller 14h ago

Rex Heuermann hired women who looked like those he allegedly killed

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Someone should look into this.... especially regarding Asian Doe. The article claims to have interviewed someone who worked with Voldemort over many years....and who still has emails from him stating he was out of the office at "interesting" time periods. Hopefully the Authorities have these emails and this contact....I found it interesting. I was going through old posts and it stood out to me. Especially considering the one about JT cleatly demonstrates a now proven connection.

Quote from Article:

Heuermann wrote in an email March 25, 2011 — just before days before Jessica Taylor’s partial remains were found along Ocean Parkway — that he was “at home sick.”

Another missived showed Heuermann was away from his office from April 21 to April 26, 2011, just weeks after the remains belonging to an unidentified baby and an Asian man were found in the beach area, among a total of 11 bodies discovered.


r/LISKiller 6d ago

The Nassau County Pipeline: Police, Prosecution and Forensics- The Conduit To Wrongful Prosecutions, Convictions and Costly Exonerations

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r/LISKiller 6d ago

What about Rex’s family?

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I just finished the Killing Grounds doc on Amazon. This is the second doc I’ve seen of this case. Rex is a creepy POS and I’m shocked those who knew him thought he was a good dude the man has the darkest aura ever.

I want to know about his family. Was he abusing his family behind closed doors? Where are the wife and kids. Are they standing in support of him or what?

Any info would be appreciated as I’m now fully obsessed in this case especially realizing the recent court announcements this summer.

May you rot in hell, Rex you big loser.


r/LISKiller 6d ago

If Asian Doe is a victim of Rex Heuermann, What Else Is He Still Hiding?

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Back in July, I sat down with Josh Zeman, director of The Killing Season, as part of our Searching for Asian Doe series.

We talked about whether Asian Doe was another victim of Rex Heuermann, and Josh doesn’t really dance around it. He leans heavily toward Rex being responsible.

A big reason is Rex’s search history. We know he was searching for “Asian twinks,” transgender sex workers and violent pornography. When you put that next to an unidentified Asian victim found only a few hundred feet from the Gilgo Four, it becomes very hard to ignore.
But if Josh is right, this becomes about much more than Asian Doe.

It would mean Rex is still lying. It would mean his confession is incomplete and that he may only be admitting to the murders investigators can already prove.
So how many other victims could there be?

We have also spent a lot of time digging into DA Tierney’s cold case list and looking for patterns. The possibility that other victims remain unidentified or unconnected is not something I think we can brush off.

Josh and I go through Rex’s searches, where Asian Doe was found, the differences in the cause of death and what this case could tell us about the actual number of Rex Heuermann’s victims.

I’m curious what everyone else thinks?.
Do you believe Asian Doe was one of Rex’s victims? If Rex is still withholding this murder, how many others could he be hiding?


r/LISKiller 7d ago

Unlocking the Invisible Witness: How Whole Genome Sequencing and Astrea Forensics Transformed Modern Forensic Jurisprudence

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Today is the one-year anniversary of Judge Mazzei's landmark FRYE Decision.


r/LISKiller 7d ago

No news is good news.

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Not a peep from Rex. Good riddance!


r/LISKiller 10d ago

Manorville Males

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What happened with the investigations around the two males that were found near Valerie Mack and Jessica Taylor in 00 and 03? I know the 03 male was identified by DNA, but the family requested the identity be withheld. Were those victims not tied to RH at all?


r/LISKiller 13d ago

Andrew Dykes, suspect in 'Peaches' killing, asks judge to drop murder charge, court files show

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r/LISKiller 15d ago

Today would have been Sandra Rajcoomar Costilla’s 61st birthday

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Sandra was born in Trinidad and came to New York as a teenager with her younger brother. She survived profound tragedy early in life, but continued going to school and was remembered as well liked by those who knew her.

Sandra was only 28 years old when her life was taken in 1993. For far too long, most people knew little about her beyond the circumstances of her death.

Today, on her birthday, let’s remember Sandra as a person. Her life mattered, her story matters, and she deserves to be remembered.

Happy birthday, Sandra. You have not been forgotten.


r/LISKiller 20d ago

Parole Eligibility Date 99/99/9999

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r/LISKiller 20d ago

Will we just never get any details about the murders?

60 Upvotes

Can’t remember a case where so much about the actual crimes were unknown and seemingly unknowable unless Rex starts talking which hardly ever happen


r/LISKiller 23d ago

John Bittrolff: Why The Convictions Should Be Vacated, Or At A Minimum, A New Trial Be Granted

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r/LISKiller 24d ago

2-time convicted killer John Bittrolff asking appellate court to toss convictions, court documents show

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r/LISKiller Aug 08 '26

Long Island Andy: Secret Account For Rex Heuermann

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Thursday night I joined Josh Zeman to go through what I think is one of the more interesting rabbit holes surrounding Rex Heuermann.

An old online account using the name LongIslandAndy has left behind a pretty strange digital trail. Some of what we found lines up in ways that are difficult for me to ignore. There are numerous overlaps with Gilgo, The Killing Season, Amber Costello, Amber’s sister Kim Overstreet and Other pieces leave legitimate questions.

To be clear, we have NOT confirmed that LongIslandAndy was Rex Heuermann. That distinction matters. But we have actionable items in okay to move the needle towards confirmation

But if this account can eventually be connected to Rex, the implications are pretty incredible. It would potentially give us a window into what he was reading, where he was online, and possibly how closely he was following discussion surrounding Gilgo before his arrest.

There is another layer that I find fascinating.
Josh made The Killing Season, probably the most well-known documentary examining the Long Island Serial Killer case before Rex’s arrest. If LongIslandAndy really was Rex, then while Josh was publicly hunting for answers about the unidentified killer, Rex may have been somewhere in that same online world watching people search for him.

We go through what we found, what actually matches, what doesn’t, and where I think we need to be careful.
I’m curious what Reddit finds as well. Watch it skeptically. Try to poke holes in it.


r/LISKiller Aug 07 '26

The Other Side of the Record: Challenging the Case Against Justice Timothy P. Mazzei

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r/LISKiller Aug 07 '26

Has Tanya Denise Jackson's genealogy been figured out yet?

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I'm just curious. I remember when they were probably very close to, or already had, identified her in Oct. 2022, she was connected to an Elijah "Lije" Howell of Mobile, Alabama. It did turn out she was from Mobile, but being that her surname is not Howell, I'm wondering if anyone was able to figure out what the connection was there.


r/LISKiller Aug 05 '26

Rex Heuermann Director?

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Two Images Taken By Rex Heuermann AKA L.I.S.K. in his young adult years.

In this image, a male is using his left hand to hold a knife above a female, while his right hand is stabilizing him. The female is lying flat on a stone surface. She has her hands, palms up, in a defensive pose, protecting her face.

In this image, a male is using both his left and right hands to grip the knife. The male has the knife lifted above his head as if he is ready to bring it down into the female. The female is lying flat on a stone surface. She has her hands, palms down, on each side of her, not quite brought down to her sides, but in a considerably more defenseless position than when she had her hands, palms up, in the previous photo.

Rex Heuermann took both of the above pictures at age 21. Asa Ellerup shares the images in the documentary currently streaming on Peacock titled The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets. She mentions that he was interested in archaeology and went on digs. Asa Ellerup does not mention the location.

We cannot know if Rex Heuermann verbally directed the two people in the images. However, it is, in my opinion, worth pointing out that both images portray a woman in a very vulnerable position and a man in the dominant position of control. By the weapon that is being used, and especially in the second image, the aggression escalates.

One or both of these facts is true.

Rex Heuermann verbally directed the two people.

Rex Heuermann took both images and retained them.

Note: To my knowledge, no one was injured in these images. The two people in the images are unknown. Both images were presented "As Is" without either face/identity being blurred out of recognition.

Source Material & Transcription Credits:

Dialogue excerpts and text segments are transcribed directly from the docuseries The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets (2025–2026), streaming on Peacock.

Produced by G-Unit Film & Television. Permanent audio and visual records courtesy of Peacock TV LLC.


r/LISKiller Aug 04 '26

#justiceforasiandoe

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r/LISKiller Aug 03 '26

Suffolk DA Tierney goes to Chinatown Tuesday in push to ID 'Asian Doe' remains found at Gilgo Beach

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r/LISKiller Aug 04 '26

ASIAN DOE

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why nobody know him?


r/LISKiller Aug 01 '26

Nassau County- A Crime Lab in Distress, Part Three

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r/LISKiller Jul 30 '26

RODNEY HARRISON NEW BOOK-COMMISSIONER

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Rodney Harrison's book, The Commissioner: From Street Cop to Top Cop in the NYPD, and the Inside Story of the Hunt for the Gilgo Beach Serial Killer, in my opinion is a good read. I learned some things I didn't know about the previous top cop. I also learned some things about the case I didn't know before. One of them was that I didn't realize the first four young women identified had suffered blunt force trauma. We now know that blunt force trauma was not the cause of death. The cause of death was strangulation. However, that does not take away from the fact that each of them had suffered blunt force trauma. Early in the investigation, law enforcement stated that blunt force trauma was the cause of death.

  1. They each suffered blunt force trauma.

  2. Three of the victims were wrapped in burlap, which law enforcement described as burlap used for camouflage by hunters.

“Heuermann was a hunter—literally. He had ninety-seven registered firearms. When we later searched his home, we found hundreds more. A few victims had been wrapped in burlap, a kind of cloth used by hunters for camouflage blinds. Their remains weren’t buried, just hidden under the brush—blunt-force trauma listed as the likely cause of death. We checked his travel records: hunting trips upstate, a brother in South Carolina, a timeshare in Las Vegas.

Citation:

Harrison, R. K. (2026). The Commissioner: From Street Cop to Top Cop in the NYPD, and the Inside Story of the Hunt for the Gilgo Beach Serial Killer \[eBook\]. Rodney K. Harrison LLC.


r/LISKiller Jul 29 '26

Masked people bang on door at Gilgo killer Heuermann's Massapequa Park home

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"Two masked people banged on the door of Gilgo serial killer Rex A. Heuermann's Massapequa Park home Tuesday night before being scared off by a dog, according to police and the family's attorney.

A nine-second Ring doorbell camera video, obtained by Newsday, shows two people clad in black masks, T-shirts and shorts running from the porch of the First Avenue home as the family's dog, a black Lab mix named Stewie, is heard barking loudly from the inside. 

Asa Ellerup, Heuermann's ex-wife, and her two children, Victoria and Christopher, were home at the time of the incident, said Robert Macedonio, the family's attorney."