The family of accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann broke their silence Friday, releasing the first public statement since the man they knew as a husband and father was arrested and their lives were turned upside down. In a press release, a lawyer for Heuermann’s wife, Asa Ellerup, said she and their children “are enduring …
A Lowe’s employee in Georgia got a black eye trying to stop shoplifters stealing more than $2,000 worth of merchandise, the Effingham Herald reports. Now she’s out of a job. On June 25, Donna Hansbrough saw three people attempting to leave without paying at a store in Rincon, Georgia, about 20 miles north of Savannah. When Hansbrough …
Disturbing images found in the home of accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann may have played a role in his attacks on women, according to one psychologist. Authorities searching Heuermann’s Massapequa Park home have so far uncovered a substantial amount of so-called “torture porn” and have been seen removing a portrait of a woman …
Investigators this weekend are continuing to search the home of accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann and are seizing items that may be relevant to the case, the New York Post reports. On Saturday, crews could be seen collecting various garden tools, including a shovel and hedge clippers. A police K-9 unit also was …
Carlee Russell is being excoriated online amid growing skepticism of her abduction claim, according to her boyfriend, who is calling on commenters to show some empathy. “I want everyone to stop bullying her,” Thomar Latrell Simmons told the New York Post. “I know what it seems like what she did. Just stop bullying on social …
Vivid new details have emerged raising questions about why it took so long for authorities to identify and arrest accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann. Speaking publicly for the first time since Heuermann’s arrest, Dave Schaller told the Associated Press that after his housemate, Amber Costello, and three other women were found buried on …
A fellow inmate of Rex Heuermann says the accused Gilgo Beach serial killer may be in danger while he’s in jail as the case against him proceeds, the New York Post reports. Philip Walker, 56, who is incarcerated at the Suffolk County Correctional Facility, told the newspaper that inmates likely are not fans of Heuermann …
Residents of the Long Island community where accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann lived are sharing details of their interactions with him and his family. Heuermann faces charges of first- and second-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello, whose bodies were found buried on Long Island’s …
High-profile forensic scientist Henry Lee has been found liable for allegedly fabricating evidence in a murder case that led to the convictions being overturned, the Associated Press reports. On Friday, a federal judge ruled that a lawsuit brought by two men who were initially convicted of the murder – Ralph “Ricky” Birch and Shawn Henning …
Former students of Bryan Kohberger are speaking out about a confrontation they had with him weeks before he allegedly murdered four people, Inside Edition reports. One of the students told “The King Road Killings” podcast that after a midterm exam, students debated Kohberger about whether he was grading them too harshly. The confrontation happened in …
Carlee Russell has lost her job at the Alabama spa where she worked before her purported disappearance earlier this month, the New York Post reports. The 25-year-old nursing student has come under intense scrutiny after investigators said they uncovered suspicious activity and internet searches casting doubt on her claims of being kidnapped. Russell’s former boss, …
The arrest of Rex Heuermann on Thursday shocked many people in the Long Island community of Massapequa Park, where residents learned an accused serial killer had been living in their midst. But the news did not surprise criminologists, who more than a decade ago described a psychological profile of someone largely matching key facets of …
