Investigators are looking into additional victims in connection with Long Island serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann, who’s accused of murdering at the least three people and dumping their bodies at New York’s Gilgo Beach.
According to Newsday, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney K. Harrison said two more investigators have been assigned to investigate Heuermann, in an attempt to link him to the murders of three unidentified victims found deceased at Gilgo Beach. Heuermann is also being investigated for the deaths of Valerie Mack and Karen Vergata.
Mack, a reported 24-year-old sex worker, disappeared in September 2000, with her last known locations in Port Republic, New Jersey. Her remains were found in 2011, at the Ocean Parkway area, near Gilgo Beach. She was never reported missing.
Police found some of 34-year-old Vergata’s dismembered remains in 1996 on Fire Island. A few months later, police found her legs in a bag at Fire Island’s Blue Point Beach, according to Harrison.
In April 2011, police found Vergata’s skull at Ocean Parkway.
“We have to take a look at what happened on Fire Island and take a look at that investigation and how it went from Fire Island over to Ocean Parkway,” Harrison told Newsday.
The three unidentified Gilgo Beach victims are described as a female with a “Peaches” tattoo, a toddler thought to be her child, and an Asian male victim.
“We will continue to work hard to see if we can attach these other unidentified bodies that were discovered on Ocean Parkway, so it is a work in progress,” Harrison added.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, police arrested Heuermann in July for the deaths of three of the four women known collectively as the “Gilgo Four.” The bodies were found within days of each other on Gilgo Beach in December 2010. All four women were buried in burlap sacks.
Heuermann is now charged with six counts of murder in the deaths of Melissa Barthelemy, 24; Megan Waterman, 22; and Amber Lynn Costello, 27; and is the prime suspect in the death of 25-year-old Maureen Brainard-Barnes.
Heuermann pleaded not guilty at his arraignment. He remains behind bars at the Suffolk County Correctional Facility without bail.
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[Feature Photo: Rex Heuermann/Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office via AP]
