Rex Heuermann "Guilty" of Eight Gilgo Murders

By Rupert Deedes

The Gilgo Mass Serial Killer - Rex Heuermann - has pled "Guilty" to killing eight (8) women victims.  He will be sentenced on June 17th.

In a plea this past Wednesday before Judge Timothy Mazzei of the Suffolk County Court, Heuermann appeared with his attorney, Michal Brown, to enter the multiple pleas of "Guilty."

The families of the victims were in Court for the plea. Heuermann's ex-wife and daughter were also present.

Appearing for the District Attorney, was the Suffolk County District Attorney himself, the Hon. Ray Tierney.

Heuermann plead guilty to seven of the murders - with which he was charged - and then admitted to an eighth murder that he had not been charged with.

As part of the plea deal with prosecutors, Heuermann waived any right to appeal and agreed to multiple life sentences in prison, with no possibility of parole.  He also agreed to cooperate with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit

The District Attorney indicated that Heuermann would be sentenced to three (3) life terms for the killings of  Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello; and an additional 100 years for the killings of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Jessica Taylor, Sandra Costilla, and Valerie Mack. Heuermann admitted to the additional killing of Karen Vergata.

All the victims were murdered by Heuermann in his Massapequa home - always when his former wife and daughter were out of town - and then buried by Heuermann in desolate stretches of beachfront dunes along Gilgo Beach just across the county line in Suffolk County.

The murders occurred between 1993 and 2010 - and the bodies were discovered in 2012.

The case "went cold" from 2012 to 2022 - under the corrupt team of former Suffolk DA Thomas Spota (D-Babylon); former Suffolk DA "Public Integrity" Chief Chris McPartland; and former Suffolk Police Chief James Burke.

Spota and Burke refused cooperation from the FBI - terminating the joint Suffolk-FBI Task Force - and diverted resources away from the Gilgo mass murder investigation.

Both Spota and Burke - whose liaison goes back to the 1970's Northport child murder of John Pius - acted as "mafia" dons in Suffolk County. Both are now convicted federal criminal felons, but they ruled corruptly over Suffolk County government for a decade.

Burke was convicted of beating a young male prisoner, after he stole a duffle bag of "really nasty porn" from Burke's car. 

Spota and Burke then coordinated a campaign of lying to the FBI; and blackballing and forcing Suffolk police officers to commit perjury to cover-up the crime. 

Burke served five years in federal prison, and was promptly re-arrested last year soliciting "blow jobs" from men at a family park in Suffolk County.  Those public lewdness charges are still pending.

According to reporters, the Spota-Burke "cover-up" of the Gilgo murders was to protect powerful Suffolk political figures who

were engaged in "sex parties" in beach houses around Gilgo Beach.

When Ray Tierney - a Republican - was elected as DA in 2022, he immediately re-opened the "cold" case - and with the mass of evidence they already had, was able to identify Heuermann as the murderer in just six (6) weeks.

Tierney and his team then spent the next 10 months gathering DNA evidence, motor vehicle records, and assorted commercial receipts to firmly tie Heuermann to the murders - excellent police investigative work.

Heuermann's attorney, Michal Brown admitted that the evidence "was overwhelming."