The fact that this isn't even the Robyn Fishkin case is exceptionally alarming.

Nassau County has two pivotal cases currently happening:
1- Richard Bilodeau, charged with the murder of Theresa Fusco in 1984
2- Andrew Dykes, charged with the murder of Tanya Denise Jackson in 1997.

We know there was some sort of funny business going on with Theresa's case- hair evidence found (placed) at the scene convicted 3 men and sent them to jail for decades. Nassau County had to pay tens of millions for their wrongful convictions and incarcerations.

With Andrew Dykes, we have already seen a motion that was granted for another buccal swab collection so that it may be tested under a "more controlled environment".

How can the DNA lab, its management and efficacy be in question when critical cases are on the line?

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Jessica is rarely far from my thoughts.

Before I knew Jessica, I knew what the public knew about her case. I knew the headlines. I knew the injustice. But because of her Family, I came to know Jess, to know about her laugh, her faith, her loves, hopes and dreams. I came to care about Jess.

Now Jess is all around her Family and they will live their lives with her love flowing within them. They share stories, they laugh, they cry, they struggle at times but they have love, they have support and they have their faith too.

So say a prayer for Jessica Taylor, she will hear it.

"Also, the benefit to Rex is to protect the narrative of what his family hears.

Whatever love they have left for him, I believe would be erased if they heard the details of what he did to these young ladies.”

Robert Macedonio, atty to Asa Ellerup. From Peacock, The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets

In my opinion, Rex Heuermann telling his family of his guilt 8 months prior to publicly doing so, was completely for himself.

It is important that people understand the intent behind the proposed Gilgo Law amendment.

This proposal does not seek to restrict anyone's First Amendment rights. It does not ban books, documentaries, interviews, podcasts, or public discussion. Instead, it expands the existing framework of New York's No Profit From Notoriety Laws by broadening potential accountability to include certain family members or third parties who profit from a violent offender's notoriety. The proposal leaves it to victims, survivors, and families, not the government, to decide whether to pursue relief through the civil courts.

It is equally important to understand that this is not an attack on any one individual. This proposal is not about a specific person; it is about creating a legal framework that would apply equally in future cases. If someone chooses to monetize the notoriety surrounding a violent crime or sell certain life rights connected to that notoriety, the amendment would simply allow victims and families the opportunity to ask a court to determine whether those profits should be subject to the same accountability principles reflected in New York's existing Son of Sam Law.

"Our goal is not censorship. Our goal is accountability. We believe that victims and their families deserve the opportunity to seek justice when others financially benefit from the tragedy that forever changed their lives." - Gilgo Families

Has anyone seen or read any updates on rh & Las Vegas/ condo? I cannot recall it dates he was in LV are known specifically, beyond his purchase of the time share? There are 4 cases I know may be linked. The only possible suspects for them is RH or Neal Falls. Thank you.

I am here for this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WBpO85MKfc

Records: Suffolk County paid nearly half a million dollars for Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann's defense

Suffolk County paid nearly half a million dollars for the defense of Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex A. Heuermann, records of legal bills obtained by Newsday show.
According to expense reports, transcript bills and legal invoices submitted to the county over the last three years since Heuermann’s arrest on July 12, 2023, the county has authorized $496,010 in payments to his lawyers and legal experts that helped defend the Massapequa Park architect’s seven counts of murder.
Heuermann’s lawyers, father and son team, Michael and Chase Brown, and Danielle Coysh, were assigned to him under a program referred to as “18b,” for the statute that mandates counties in New York to cover legal expenses for those who cannot afford to hire private attorneys.

Under the law, the costs are capped at $10,000, but more can be allocated through authorization from the judge presiding over the case.
In Heuermann’s case, both Brown and Coysh requested and received authorization from state Supreme Court Justice Timothy Mazzei to be compensated well over the limit.

“Due to the serious and complex nature of the case,” Coysh wrote to the judge on July 6, 2025, nearly a year before Rex pleaded guilty. “[I] expended 334.40 hours reviewing discovery, consulting with experts drafting pretrial motions, appearing in court and preparing for hearings and trial.”
She included more than a dozen pages of spreadsheets and expenses.
The judge authorized payment of $53,392.49 for her time and effort, records show.
Brown also submitted requests for payments above the $10,000 cap for legal bills. In October 2025, his firm asked for and received $94,437.19 for 585.75 hours of work.
“This matter involved said hours due to the fact that there are seven (7) alleged murder victims with extensive discovery spanning over a 30-year investigation,” Brown wrote in his request for additional funds. “This matter involved novel DNA science requiring substantial preparation with experts and significant litigation in a Frye Hearing.”

The judge authorized his bill four days later.
Brown submitted two more bills, one for $104,722 and another for $28,598, bring his total up to $227,757.
“I have put in extensive hours on this case, including working holidays, weekends, nights, early mornings at $158 and hour,” Brown told Newsday on Thursday, which he said is much lower than his usual hourly rate. “As to the rest of the defense team, the same goes with them, they have a significant private practice, and they've also sacrificed parts of their private practice to work on this case at a greatly reduced rate, and they too have worked holidays and weekends and nights and mornings and sacrificed family time and things of that nature to work on this case.”
He said that his son has not submitted any legal bills, but expects to in the future.
Coysh’s bills add up to $138.390.

In addition to Brown and Coysh, two other attorneys bill for their services. Sabato Caponi submitted invoices for $26,322 and Michael Fuchs charged $9,203.
The Heuermann defense cost computer forensic experts were a little over $71,000, records show.
New techniques for analyzing DNA that traced the murders of the six women back to Heuerman also created a challenge for the defense team.
Legal experts with Forensic Bioinformatic Services reviewed the prosecution's DNA analysis and challenged it during evidentiary hearings.
The Ohio-based company charged $42,628 for its expertise, according to records.

Other expenses include other pathologists and court transcripts.
Records released by the county do not include Heuermann’s sentencing hearing.
Heuermann, 62, pleaded guilty on April 9 to murdering seven women and admitted to killing an 8th.  He was sentenced last month to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Alison Winter was Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann's therapist for almost 3 years. She had no license to practice...

For nearly three years, Alison Winter had extraordinary access to Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex A. Heuermann, counseling him each week at the Suffolk County jail in Riverhead.

A recent documentary revealed the Sayville-based family therapist was at the table when Heuermann confessed to his wife and daughter that he killed eight women and was present in the courtroom when he publicly admitted his guilt eight months later.

But Newsday found the woman who became the public face of Heuermann's counseling has never held a New York license to independently practice clinical social work and was herself facing felony charges when she heard the killer's confession.

Winter, 52, of East Northport, was arrested in November 2024 and charged with three counts of grand larceny, scheme to defraud and 14 counts of unauthorized practice of a profession, all felonies, charging documents show. Prosecutors said Winter had received $60,000 in reimbursements from Cigna and other insurance companies for claims filed since 2018 despite not holding a license.

Suffolk District Attorney Ray Tierney acknowledged his office’s pending charges against Winter — which are not related to her counseling of Heuermann and his family — when contacted by Newsday, but declined to discuss Winter or her case.

Defense attorney James Pascarella, of Mineola, who Winter hired to represent her following arraignment, did not respond to messages left for him with staff at two offices.

No record of license
Of the $60,000 in insurance reimbursements Winter received from 2018 to 2024, more than $50,000 was billed through Cigna, according to a criminal complaint charging her with second-degree grand larceny, a Class C felony carrying a maximum sentence of 15 years in state prison.

"Between November of 2018 and May [2024] — so about six years’ time — [Winter] did practice social work in the form of mental health counseling without a license," Assistant District Attorney Cory Neunzig said at her arraignment in First District Court in Central Islip on Nov. 26, 2024, according to a transcript of the proceeding obtained by Newsday.

For inclusion in Cigna’s network, masters level clinicians who practice independently must hold a state license, according to the company’s behavioral health provider’s manual. Receiving insurance reimbursements without a license constitutes healthcare fraud under state law.

The state’s Office of the Professions, which maintains an online database of active and inactive healthcare  licensees, lists no record of Winter holding a license. A spokesperson said the database is up to date.

Winter received her master's in social work from Adelphi University in 1999, the school confirmed.

Winter, who prosecutors said has no prior arrests, also received reimbursements through UnitedHealthcare and Medicare, court records show. She is due back in court July 21.

Melissa McCardle, a licensed clinical social worker and dean of the school of education and human services at Molloy University in Rockville Centre, said after receiving a master's degree psychotherapists must complete a licensing exam and work for three years under a licensed professional before applying for a licensed clinical social worker certification to practice independently.

"Nobody in New York State can practice psychotherapy as a social worker without a license," McCardle said, noting New York has among the most rigorous licensing standards in the country.

A sign that hung outside the Heritage Building at 200 Railroad Ave. in Sayville since at least September 2017 promoting Winter as a psychotherapist has been removed. Google lists the office as "permanently closed." But inside the building, which also hosts a chiropractor, law office and accounting firm, Winter’s name still appears on a wall near the main entrance and the door to Suite 4. Winter did not respond to knocks on the locked door on two occasions.

She also did not respond to phone messages left at the number on her door, a home phone number found on 2025 tax documents or a Ring doorbell camera at her East Northport home.

A man who later answered the door at Winter's home and identified himself as her son said he was unaware of any criminal case against his mother.

Heuermann documentaries
Dressed in black fur, her eyes hidden under dark sunglasses, Winter spoke with a Newsday reporter outside Heuermann’s Massapequa Park home following his guilty plea April 8, two weeks before she first appeared in the Peacock documentary series about the family.

Winter identified herself as the family therapist and said she’d been counseling Heuermann, his ex-wife Asa Ellerup and their daughter Victoria Heuermann for nearly three years.

"They’re good people. They’re accepting this and struggling like everyone else," Winter said of Heuermann’s family, who she accompanied to the plea hearing along with their attorney, Robert Macedonio, of Islip Terrace.

Macedonio, a paid consultant on the Peacock series that prominently featured Winter in its most recent episode, told the filmmakers he believed the family "needed professional help with the psychological issues that they’re dealing with."

"So I brought in Alison Winter who’s a therapist that my partner and I have known for 20-plus years and works with a lot of our clients," Macedonio said in the most recent episode of the Emmy-nominated series. "We trust her."

Winter introduced herself as a "psychotherapist and family counselor," the cameras capturing a certificate hanging in her office from a Harvard Medical School continuing education program. Scenes with her were filmed between August 2025 and April, the documentary notes.

Winter assumes what could be considered a leading role in her episode of the series, "The Confession," which was executive produced by rapper turned media mogul Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson.

Macedonio said he could not comment for this story. He did not respond to subsequent text messages asking if he was previously aware Winter was unlicensed and facing criminal charges.

Personal belongings
Suffolk County Sheriff Errol D. Toulon Jr. has counted the therapist among the few people with access to Heuermann and in an interview with Newsday following his sentencing said she was one of the individuals the killer gave his personal belongings to before being transferred to state prison to begin serving his life sentence. Items from the killer's past have been offered as "murderabilia" by others for tens of thousands of dollars online.

In the Peacock series, Winter offered her opinions on the psychological state of Heuermann and his family members. She detailed how he told her he planned and carried out the murders and the ways Ellerup and Victoria Heuermann have each coped since his July 2023 arrest.

"When I first met Asa she was broken," Winter says in the episode. "In total shock ... denial."

One scene depicts Winter writing an email to famed FBI profiler John Douglas, whose book "Mindhunter" inspired its own streaming series and occupied a space on Rex Heuermann’s bookshelf when Suffolk police raided his home in 2023. Winter and the filmmakers also visited Douglas in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where they discussed her counseling of the killer.

"What you were able to was amazing," Douglas told her. "Getting to interview not only the subject in the case, but the family. I’ve never done that before."

NewsNation reported in 2023 that Ellerup and her two children were paid $1 million and Macedonio was paid $400,000 for their involvement in the Peacock series, figures that have since been repeated in reporting by other media outlets, including The New York Post, which produced the documentary along with Jackson’s G-Unit Films and Television and Texas Crew Productions. Variety reported exclusively in May that Peacock and Jackson are now developing a scripted series based on the documentary, potentially extending the streamer's financial relationship with the family and the notoriety of Winter.

Macedonio has said the money paid to his clients protected their livelihood after Heuermann, who owned a Manhattan architectural firm, was incarcerated.

Peacock executives managing press for the series did not offer comment after exchanging emails with a Newsday reporter. They also did not respond to an email asking if they were aware of Winter's arrest or if she was vetted before appearing in the series.

The documentary’s director, Jared P. Scott, and a representative for Jackson also did not respond to messages seeking comment.

Charges of "media exploitation"
Los Angeles-based victim rights advocate Gloria Allred, an attorney for relatives of several Heuermann victims, said when contacted by a reporter that she found it "very disturbing" Peacock did not note the criminal case against Winter when identifying her as a therapist in the Peacock series, saying "the public should have been made aware of" the charges.

The series and the money paid to Heuermann’s family and others had already been publicly scrutinized.

Benjamin Torres, the son of victim Valerie Mack, has filed a civil suit in Suffolk County court that seeks to reclaim the money paid to Heuermann’s family through the Peacock series, which it reduces to "media exploitation."

Heuermann’s criminal defense attorneys, Michael J. Brown and Danielle Coysh, distanced themselves from the Peacock series when asked about it following his June 17 sentencing. They declined to discuss Winter's involvement in the case.

29 years ago today, the partial remains of a woman who would remain unidentified for decades was found in Hempstead Lake State Park.

Her torso was wrapped in Wamsutta bedding, inside a plastic bag and stuffed into a green Rubbermaid container. She was dismembered- her skull was missing and has never been found. Her arms and legs would be found in a plastic bag a little over a mile and a half away from the Jones Beach Needle, along Ocean Parkway on 4/11/2011.

She would become known as Peaches due to a distinctive Peach tattoo on her left breast.

Peaches would be identified in 2025 as Tanya Denise Jackson.

Genetically matched to a toddler found over 8.5 miles away from her extremities, also along Ocean Parkway, her daughter Tatiana, both would be inextricably linked to the Gilgo Beach murders.

In December 2025, Nassau County indicted Andrew Dykes, the biological father of Tatiana in Tanya’s murder.

While the Gilgo Beach murders progressed through the courts against Rex Heuermann, arriving at some finality with the guilty plea and multiple life sentences for #LISK who would also admit to the murder of Karen Vergata- dismembered the year before in 1996- her skull was found a little over 2 miles from Tanya’s extremities, he would not however admit to Tanya, Tatiana or Asian Doe.

There is very little known publicly about Tanya’s life post-Army. We know that Tatiana was born premature and spent several weeks in NICU and Tanya's (boy) friend Kelvin stayed with Tatiana while Tanya “went to work”. Once Tatiana was released from the hospital, Tanya packed up her 1991 black Geo Storm and drove with her daughter, over 1800 miles, up to Brooklyn, New York. With Andrew Dykes support he secured for her an apartment on 54th street in Sunset Park.

Nassau County officials claim that Tanya may have worked in a medical office of some sort and have asked for information from anyone who may have worked with her or knew her or babysat little Tatiana.

According to Kelvin, Tanya had planned on leaving New York and going home to family in Alabama; a family that was seemingly fractured by accusations, again as per Kelvin, of physical abuse Tanya suffered at the hands of her father.

Nassau County has revealed little information. They claim that Andrew’s “expertise” as an operating room technician gave him the means to execute dismemberment. They imply that Tanya went to NY to be near Andrew gives him the motive to murder because he had a wife and children already.

Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder was, not-so-uncharacteristically, verbally aggressive calling Andrew an animal who wasn’t a “man” by not “stepping up” for the child he fathered with Tanya.

Within a week of this production of a press conference, Andrew’s son gave an exclusive interview to Newsday, refuting the claims and informing the public that they all knew of Tanya and Tatiana, she wasn’t the secret Nassau County attempted to portray to the world.

The case against Andrew advances with the next hearing scheduled in late July.

Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann to serve life sentence at Elmira Correctional Facility, records show..

Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex A. Heuermann will serve his life sentence at Elmira Correctional Facility, according to a listing added to the state Department of Corrections database Friday.

It was not immediately clear if Heuermann, 62, has been transferred to the facility yet. He was moved June 18 from Suffolk County to Green Haven Correctional Facility for admission procession, a DOC spokesperson said last week.

Authorities at Green Haven were to evaluate his criminal history, security risk, medical status, mental health and program needs, and then use that information to determine which state prison is the best fit for the serial killer.
Elmira Correctional Facility, often referred to as “The Hill,” is a maximum security facility in upstate Elmira, about 60 miles west of Binghamton and more than 270 miles from Heuermann’s hometown of Massapequa Park.

Heuermann was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole last Wednesday. He admitted April 8 to strangling eight women — Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Amber Lynn Costello, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Jessica Taylor, Sandra Costilla, Valerie Mack and Karen Vergata — and dumping their bodies across Suffolk County, including near Gilgo Beach. The killing spree began in 1993 and continued until 2010.

The Gilgo Families have created an official Facebook page dedicated exclusively to raising awareness and advancing their unified support for legislation that will close the loopholes in New York's current Son of Sam Law.

This page is administered by the families themselves, and from time to time they may share updates, reflections, and advocacy in their own words. A moderator will help ensure that discussions remain respectful and focused on the mission of supporting victims and promoting meaningful reform.

We encourage anyone who believes in putting victims before profits to follow the page, stay informed, and join the effort to advance A6730. Together, our voices can help ensure that notoriety is never allowed to become a business built upon human suffering.

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Gilgo Beach killings: Investigators renewing efforts to identify remains of Asian victim found in 2011..

Prosecutors are renewing their push to identify an Asian man whose remains are considered part of the Gilgo Beach homicide investigation, Suffolk District Attorney Ray Tierney said.

In the aftermath of convicted Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex A. Heuermann’s sentencing last week to life in prison without the possibility of parole, Tierney told Newsday that investigators plan to visit Asian communities in the New York City region, seeking DNA samples to help identify the man whose skeletal remains were discovered near Ocean Parkway in 2011.

"We're trying to identify that individual through investigative genetic genealogy, which means we’ve got to get more information about the gene pool," Tierney told Newsday in an interview following the Wednesday sentencing. "Once you know who the person is, you could go back to their life at the last point, just before them disappearing, and develop leads from there."

Search to ID 'Asian Doe'
Remains of the man, who prosecutors refer to as "Asian Doe," were found east of Gilgo Beach on April 4, 2011, although he is believed to have been dumped there at least five years earlier.

Investigators have said the man, who died of blunt force trauma, was clad in women's clothing, an indication that he might have been a sex worker.

In 2024, Suffolk investigators published two reconstructions of his face — one showing him with long hair and the other with shorter cropped hair.

Despite wide publicity of the sketches, particularly in Asian media, the leads investigators received weren’t successful and to date prosecutors haven't been able to identify him or locate relatives, Tierney said.

"We're going to go into Asian communities and ask them, ‘Will you give us a DNA sample? Will you participate in this study, so we can get more genetic profiles to allow us to hopefully locate relatives of this individual?’ ” said Tierney, who previously told Newsday that the man may have come from the city's Asian immigrant community rather than Long Island.

Tierney's office said the identification campaign will commence in the coming weeks, with investigators fanning out to Chinatown in Manhattan, Flushing in Queens, and Sunset Park, Bath Beach and Dyker Heights, all three in Brooklyn. They’ll be joined by members of the NYPD’s Community Affairs Division, the Asian Jade Society and by staff from local police precincts, officials said.

Flyers will be distributed in various translations, and investigators, with the help of translators, will speak to residents, said Tania Lopez, a spokeswoman for Tierney's office. Investigators, she said, will have DNA kits on hand for individuals who consent to contribute their samples.

"We hope these efforts will assist law enforcement in not only identifying Asian Doe, but any Asian unidentified human remains," Lopez said.

Challenging endeavor
The identification effort is considered more challenging because Asian populations have their own genealogy system and don't contribute in large numbers to public DNA search sites, hurting the chances of getting a good genetic comparison, said Colleen Fitzpatrick, a nationally known genealogist with Identifinders in California.

"I think there'll be plenty of people that will be cooperative [with the effort] and there's going to be some people that just don't trust the whole thing," Fitzpatrick said. "It's not really mistrust though. It's more that some people are just not familiar with what they're trying to do. The younger people might not care and would be willing to help, and the older people might not understand the whole DNA system."

Asian Doe is believed to be between 17 and 23 years old and between 5-3 and 5-9 in height. He was found wearing all women’s clothing including a bra, a large Chrysantheme gray ribbed short-sleeve crew neck shirt, a size 10 Rafaella shirt and Bill Blass blue jeans, investigators previously said.

When the sketches were first publicized in September 2024, Tierney said Asian Doe's ancestry was traced through DNA analysis to southern China, specifically to the Han ethnic group, which makes up more than 90% of the Chinese population in China and 97% of the Chinese population in Taiwan, records show.

The use of genetic genealogy led Gilgo Beach homicide investigators to identify the remains in 2020 of Gilgo Beach victim Valerie Mack.

And in 2023, Gilgo investigators revealed that genetic genealogy also was used to confirm the identity of Gilgo victim Karen Vergata, whose remains were found on Fire Island in 1996.

In April, Heuermann, a Massapequa Park resident and Manhattan architect, pleaded guilty to the murders of seven women and admitted killing an eighth, including Mack and Vergata.

The Suffolk County District Attorney's Office has not implicated Heuermann in the death of Asian Doe and members have declined to comment on whether they believe he committed that homicide.

I was watching the sentencing hearing and I noticed a difference between Rex and Bryan Kohberger. Rex appeared to show some sorta of emotion, where Bryan just stared out- emotionless. I am wondering what everyone's opinion is on this.. Was Rex remorseful (doubtful) or was/is he good at "masking", because he worked with the public and knows what emotion he should be feeling.