Alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann charged with murdering 4th woman

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Alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann charged with murdering 4th woman

Heuermann was initially charged with the murders of three women in July 2023.
ByEmily Shapiro and Aaron Katersky
January 16, 2024, 8:44 AM

Prosecutors in Suffolk County, New York, have charged alleged serial killer Rex Heuermann with murdering Maureen Brainard-Barnes, who disappeared in 2007 while working as an escort, linking him to her death through DNA and other evidence.

Heuermann has already been charged with murdering three other escorts. Like Megan Waterman, Amber Costello and Melissa Barthelemy, the remains of Brainard-Barnes were found in a desolate spot along the ocean near Gilgo Beach.

"Today, Defendant Rex A. Heuermann stands before this Court charged by the Grand Jury in a Superseding Indictment, which incorporates not only the above counts, but the additional charge of: 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," prosecutors wrote in a court filing.

Prosecutors said Heuermann's now-estranged wife, Asa Ellerup, and his children were out of town when Brainard-Barnes disappeared and was killed, fitting an alleged pattern of Heuermann being home alone when the other three killed.

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[DB]

2nd degree murder???

It was entirely planned and executed.

[DefiantMassRINO]

The prosecutors may not have the moxy to prove that the alleged killer had the forethought of malice to murder his alleged victim ...

 

... scumbag defense attorney will argue that the alleged death was "accidental".

In the old days, a criminal act defined the crime.

These days, it's the "intent" of the defendent that defines the crime.  This allows ignorance, stupidity, psychopathy, sociopathy, incompetence, and willful blindness to absolve the defendent of legal guilt and consequence.