![]() Robinson also hoped Taylor would be “remembered as a beautiful young woman, not what her occupation was at that time.” Another unmentioned victim was Valerie Mack, who was 24 when she last left her family’s home in Port Republic, New Jersey. Outside the courthouse where Heuermann was arraigned Friday, her cousin Jasmine Robinson remarked that “full justice” will be achieved only when all the cases are solved. Among them: Jessica Taylor, a 20-year-old Washington, D.C., woman who went missing in New York in July 2003. Seven of the 11 victims whose remains were found on Jones Beach Island were not mentioned in the charging documents for Heuermann. “There’s so many questions I still have,” she said, including, “Why her?” Nicole Haycock, one of Waterman’s longtime friends and her brother’s former girlfriend, was surprised by the announcement of Heuermann’s arrest Friday. “I can only be positive about it all,” she told Portland TV station WGME in January 2020. But her mother, Lorraine Ela, died last year never knowing if her daughter’s killer would ever be found.Įla’s hopes were buoyed three years ago when investigators discovered new evidence: a belt embossed with two letters that might have belonged to the suspect. Waterman was found near Gilgo Beach in December 2010, six months after she boarded a bus from Maine to New York. “I’d like him to suffer at the hands of other inmates,” the victim’s mother, Lynn Barthelemy, told NBC News.īut she also expressed relief that a suspect was finally in custody.Ī key question lingers, however: Why did it take so long? That was a question the suspect apparently had too, when prosecutors say he went online to ask, “Why hasn’t the long island serial killer been caught.” The killer provided clues, including strands of hair, the burlap used to wrap the bodies and a belt embossed with possible initials.Īnd there were the phone calls, including one made from Barthelemy’s cellphone on the day she was last seen alive that would be traced to the Long Island town of Massapequa, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from where her body would later be found, not far from Heuermann’s house. Two days later, the bodies of three other young women were found nearby. Heuermann says he is innocent, according to his lawyer.īarthelemy, who grew up in Buffalo, New York, was found on December 11, 2010, more than a year after she went missing. ![]() He is also the prime suspect in the death of a fourth woman who disappeared that same year, Maureen Brainard-Barnes. In addition to the Barthelemy case, he has so far only been accused of killing two others, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello, who were reported missing in 2010. ![]() All 10 adult victims, including the toddler’s mother, were sex workers, police said.īut investigators say the suspect, Rex Heuermann, 59, might not be responsible for all of the deaths. ![]() The toddler and three other victims have yet to be identified. ilgo Beach would become the focal point of the long-stalled investigation into the discovery of 11 sets of remains, including that of a toddler, all discarded along the parkway that cuts the length of a thin strip of white sand, dirt, brambles and marshes known as Jones Beach Island. To accelerate the search for Barthelemy’s remains, her family hired a psychic who provided tantalizing clues that would prove prophetic: She would be found in a shallow grave along the shore, near a sign with the letter G. The yearslong ordeal was especially unnerving for Brotz and her family because prosecutors say the suspect used Barthelemy’s cellphone to torment her relatives with calls soon after her disappearance, including one in which he said he’d killed her. “God has brought peace to the families,” she said. “I can’t wrap my head around this,” Brotz said, just hours after being startled by the unexpected news of an arrest. ![]()
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