Prosecutors say Rex Heuermann, 60, kept a computer document he used to “blueprint” his crimes.
By Philip Marcelo, Associated PressAlleged Gilgo serial killer Rex Heuermann appears inside Judge Tim Mazzei's courtroom on Feb. 6, 2024 in Riverhead, N.Y.
Taylor disappeared in 2003. Costilla was killed in 1993. The new charges came just days after police finished extensive searches of Heuermann’s Massapequa Park home and a wooded area on Long Island tied to the investigation of a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach serial killings. One section, titled “BODY PREP,” includes guidance to “REMOVE HEAD AND HANDS,” as well as tattoos and trace DNA, and to wash the bodies. Another section, “THINGS TO REMEMBER,” appears to highlight lessons from previous killings that should be heeded, according to prosecutors. The entries describe the importance of sleeping properly “BEFORE HUNT,” using thick rope, and limiting noise to increase “PLAY TIME.
The victims had disappeared over a span of at least 14 years. Vexed police officers made only halting progress in identifying possible suspects. Investigators long said it was likely that not all of the deaths were the work of the same killer. Some of the victims disappeared in the mid-1990s. Investigators concluded that an 11th person who disappeared in 2010 from the barrier island community of Oak Beach had accidentally drowned.
That followed a search in April of a wooded area in Manorville, about 40 miles east of Heuermann’s home, linked to another Gilgo Beach victim. Investigators in April also spent days searching a property in the eastern Long Island hamlet of North Sea, where the Costilla’s body was discovered in 1993. Costilla was 28 when she was killed and had lived in New York City.
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