Rex Heuermann’s children are “alongside for the darkish trip” and standing by the suspected Gilgo Seaside serial killer, in keeping with their lawyer.
Victoria Heuermann and Christopher Sheridan stay by their dad’s facet even after he was charged with two extra murders and prosecutors detailed a sickening “planning doc” he allegedly stored on a pc in his Massapequa Park dwelling, lawyer Vess Mitev stated.
“They proceed to bravely face the scrutiny and adversity head-on and they’ll await the authorized course of to conclude in a courtroom and never within the courtroom of public opinion,” Mitev instructed The Publish on Friday morning.
“They’re alongside for the darkish trip, one may say,” Mitev additionally instructed the US Solar.
“Nonetheless, they’re two younger adults which have completed nothing incorrect and so they’re making an attempt to maintain their lives from fully crumbling within the midst of all this,” the lawyer stated.
Following his arrest final summer season, Heuermann, 60, was charged with the homicide of three ladies whose our bodies had been discovered alongside Ocean Parkway in late 2010.
He was hit with fees for the killing of a fourth sufferer – rounding out the so-called “Gilgo 4” – in January.
On Monday, the hulking father of two was again in Suffolk County courtroom to be arraigned for the 1993 slaying of Sandra Costilla, and the 2003 demise of Jessica Taylor.
In the course of the proceedings, prosecutors unveiled what they known as Heuermann’s “blueprint” for his alleged crimes – together with lists on potential dumping grounds and techniques for avoiding detection as he preyed on younger ladies.
The grotesque discover was pulled from laborious drive on a laptop computer within the basement of Heuermann’s dwelling the place he lived along with his spouse and kids.
Mitev declined to touch upon whether or not Victoria and Christopher had learn the majority of the proof, however stated that the pair wish to see the case in opposition to their dad for themselves at his trial.
“There’s a quantum leap between allegations and a conviction, as any felony protection lawyer will inform you, so whether or not it’s one or 100 fees, they’re nonetheless allegations,” Mitev famous.
Who had been the Gilgo Seaside victims?
Suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann — a New York Metropolis architect and married dad of two — was arrested in reference to the long-unsolved Gilgo Seaside murders. The arrest is tied to the so-called “Gilgo 4,” ladies discovered wrapped in burlap inside days of one another in late 2010.
The years-long investigation that led to the arrest revolved across the discovery of greater than 10 units of human stays alongside Ocean Parkway close to Gilgo Seaside in Suffolk County between December 2010 and April 2011.
Most victims had been petite feminine intercourse staff with inexperienced or hazel eyes. However there have been additionally two exceptions: a 2-year-old lady and a younger Asian man.
Melissa Barthelemy, 24
- Barthelemy was a intercourse employee who lived within the Unionport part of the Bronx and dreamed of sooner or later opening her personal magnificence salon. She was final seen alive in her basement condominium on Underhill Avenue on July 12, 2009. Heuermann was charged for Barthelemy’s homicide in July 2023.
Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25
- Brainard-Barnes was residing in Norwich, Connecticut. She went lacking after taking an Amtrak practice from New London, Connecticut, to Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan on July 6, 2007. Her stays had been present in December 2010. Heuermann was charged for Brainard-Barnes’ homicide in January 2024.
Amber Lynn Costello, 27
- Costello, 27, was a intercourse employee and heroin addict who lived in West Babylon, New York, at a house with a girl and two males. She marketed on Craigslist and Backpage to help her and her roommates’ drug habits. Costello was discovered on December 13, 2010, after having been final seen leaving her dwelling September 2, 2010. Heuermann was charged for Costello’s homicide in July 2023.
Megan Waterman, 22
- Waterman, a 22-year-old mother of 1, was final seen on June 6, 2010. She lived in Scarborough, Maine, and earned a residing as an escort. She was final seen by her household boarding a New York-bound Harmony Trailways bus in Maine. Her physique was discovered on December 13, 2010, on the north facet of Ocean Parkway, close to Gilgo Seaside. Heuermann was charged for Waterman’s homicide in July 2023.
Jessica Taylor, 20
- Stays belonging to Jessica Taylor, a 20-year-old girl working as an escort in New York Metropolis, had been present in a wooded space in Manorville on July 26, 2003. Her extra stays — initially labeled “Jane Doe No. 5” — had been found on March 29, 2011, alongside Ocean Parkway.
Valerie Mack, 24
- Valerie Mack was 24 years outdated and residing in Philadelphia when she went lacking. She labored as an escort, utilizing the alias “Melissa Taylor.” Family members final noticed Mack within the spring or summer season of 2000 in Port Republic, New Jersey, however she was by no means reported as lacking to the police. Her partial skeletal stays had been present in Manorville in September 2000 however had been initially referred to as “Jane Doe No. 6.” Extra bones had been discovered on April 4, 2011, alongside Ocean Parkway.
Unidentified Asian man
- The skeletal stays of a yet-to-be-identified Asian man had been discovered alongside Ocean Parkway on April 4, 2011. It’s estimated that the person was between 17 and 23 years outdated on the time of his demise. He was roughly 5 toes 6 inches tall with unhealthy tooth.
‘Peaches’ and her daughter
- An African American girl’s partial stays had been found in Hempstead Lake State Park again in 1997, and he or she had develop into referred to as “Peaches” due to a bitten tattoo of a peach on her left breast. On April 4, 2011, police uncovered the stays of a toddler, who was about 2 years outdated on the time of her demise. DNA testing confirmed that one of many skeletons was that of the 2-year-old lady’s mom, “Peaches.”
Karen Vergata
- A sufferer beforehand known as Jane Doe No. 7 has been recognized as 34-year-old Manhattan girl Karen Vergata. Vergata is believed to have disappeared round Feb. 14, 1996; two months later, her legs had been present in a plastic bag at a park close to Fireplace Island’s Blue Level Seaside. On the time of her disappearance, Vergata was believed to have been working as an escort. Two units of Vergata’s stays had been recognized in August 2023.
Shannan Gilbert, 23
- Gilbert was a Craigslist escort who lived in Jersey Metropolis, traveled together with her driver Michael Pak from Manhattan to fulfill a shopper, Joseph Brewer, at his dwelling within the Oak Seaside Affiliation on the morning of Might 1, 2010. She spoke with two neighbors earlier than disappearing. Her physique was found in a marsh close to Oak Seaside — about half a mile from the place she was final seen alive — on December 13, 2011.
Jessica Taylor, 20
- Taylor, a 20-year-old girl working as an escort in New York Metropolis, had been present in a wooded space in Manorville on July 26, 2003. Her extra stays — initially labeled “Jane Doe No. 5” — had been found on March 29, 2011, alongside Ocean Parkway.
Sandra Costilla
- Costilla was murdered in 1993 however had not been included among the many so-called Gilgo Seaside victims — till now. Investigators suspected convicted serial killer John Bittrolff in Costilla’s demise, however he was by no means charged in her slaying — which stays one among a number of unsolved Lengthy Island murders.
“They’re not going to get carried away or swept alongside within the courtroom of public opinion, they’re going to attend till this case is set by a jury and a choose contained in the 4 partitions of the courtroom.”
Heuermann’s kids have remained principally out of the general public eye since his bombshell arrest – although Victoria was pictured alongside her mom, Asa Ellerup, throughout courtroom proceedings in April.
Ellerup married Heuermann in 1996. She filed for divorce days after he was arrested, however has since insisted that her husband shouldn’t be able to the brutal murders.
Final 12 months, it was revealed that Ellerup and the 2 kids would obtain no less than $1 million for taking part within the NBC/Peacock documentary on the Gilgo Seaside case.
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