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South Carolina Officials Say They Can’t Link Missing Woman With Serial Killer Suspect Rex Heuermann
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South Carolina officials say they have uncovered no information linking the disappearance of a woman in 2017 with Long Island serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann.

Julia Ann Bean, 32, was last seen on May 31, 2017, in Sumter, South Carolina, where she lived. Her daughter, now in her 20s, contacted police after seeing pictures of Heuermann following his arrest for the murders of three women found dead on Gilgo Beach, Long Island, in late 2010. Cameron Bean said that she believed she had seen her mother with Heuermann before her disappearance, as CrimeOnline previously reported.

But the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office said Friday that “there is currently no evidence connecting Bean with Heuermann,” Newsday reported.

The sheriff’s office said it handed over information about Bean’s case to the FBI and interviewed Cameron Bean.

Sumter County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Mark Bordeaux declined to say who was the last person to see Julia Ann Bean, but he told Newsday it was about two weeks after her daughter’s last contact with her. Cameron Bean reported her mother missing in November that year, he said.

Police in Nevada and South Carolina, both places where Heuermann owns property, have been investigating to see if there is any link between him and unsolved murders and disappearances. Heuermann owns and a time share in Las Vegas and bought property next to his brother in Chester, South Carolina — about 100 miles from Sumter — where he said he intended to retire.

So far, he has only been charged with the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, 24; Megan Waterman, 22; and Amber Lynn Costello, 27; , three of four women found near one another on Gilgo Beach. He is the prime suspect in the death of 25-year-old Maureen Brainard-Barnes, the fourth of the so-called Gilgo 4.

Heuermann pleaded not guilty to the three murders.

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[Featured image: Rex Heuermann/Suffolk County Police Department via AP and Julia Ann Bean/Sumter County Sheriff’s Office]