The suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer’s wife now says her husband is “not capable of the crimes he is accused of,&#8221; according to a statement from her attorney.
The wife, who is not suspected of any crimes and will not be named because The Daily Wire is not naming her husband, filed for divorce just days after her husband was arrested for multiple murders committed more than a decade ago. Now, however, she says she is giving him “the benefit of the doubt,” ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/estranged-wife-gilgo-beach-suspect-rex-heuermann-statement/story?id=108100643" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;I will listen to all of the evidence and withhold judgment until the end of trial,&#8221; the wife said in a statement on Wednesday released through her attorney, Bob Macedonio. &#8220;I have given him the benefit of the doubt, as we all deserve.&#8221;
Macedonio reportedly said the wife visits the suspect weekly.
In her statement, she also provided “heartfelt sympathies” to the victims and their families.
&#8220;Nobody deserves to die in that manner,&#8221; she added.
The suspect has pleaded not guilty to the murders of Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy, and Amber Costello, who were found on a beach along the south shore of Long Island, New York, back in 2010. In January, the suspect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gilgo-beach-serial-killer-suspect-charged-with-4th-murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was charged</a> with the murder of a fourth woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes.
The suspect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-a-pizza-box-and-hair-led-police-to-the-suspected-gilgo-beach-serial-killer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was arrested</a> on July 13 for the murder of the three women. Six days after his arrest, his wife filed for divorce. She and other family members reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gilgo-beach-serial-killer-suspects-family-to-make-1-million-for-docuseries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will receive</a> $1 million for participating in a documentary series with Peacock. The project will follow the family’s lives as they cope with the upcoming trial and how it has uprooted their lives.
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Police investigating the Gilgo Beach serial killings are operating on the theory that the suspect committed the murders in his own home, a source told CNN.
The theory is based on the repeated claim that the suspect’s family was out of town during the murders, suggesting he may have lured the victims to his home, a source involved in the investigation <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/us/gilgo-beach-serial-killings-rex-heuermann-house/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the outlet.
Authorities are operating under this theory, the source said, as they continue to search the suspect’s home for trace evidence of the victims. Killing them at his own home would have allowed him to control the environment while having easy access to the materials found along with the victims at Gilgo Beach, such as tape and burlap bags.
Four bodies were found within days of each other. The body of Barthelemy was found on December 11, 2010, during a police training exercise with a K9, according to <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23876053-heuermann-bail-application" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a bail application</a> obtained by the Daily Beast. Two days later, police searched the area and discovered the three other bodies.
If convicted, the suspect faces multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole.

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Suspected Gilgo Beach Serial Killer’s Wife — Who Is Divorcing Him — Now Says Husband ‘Not Capable’ Of Murders

Suspected Gilgo Beach Serial Killer's Wife — Who Is Divorcing Him — Now Says Husband 'Not Capable' Of Murders

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Attorneys for the man accused of killing four women and dumping their bodies on Gilgo Beach on Long Island, New York, are pointing to an alternate suspect for the crimes.
The current suspect, who is not being named by The Daily Wire, has pleaded not guilty to the murders of Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy, and Amber Costello, who were found on a beach along the south shore of Long Island, New York, back in 2010. In January, the suspect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gilgo-beach-serial-killer-suspect-charged-with-4th-murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was charged</a> with the murder of a fourth woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes.
On Tuesday, the suspect’s attorney, Mike Brown, said at a news conference that the previous district attorney was prepared to charge someone else for the murders, NewsNation <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/rex-heuermanns-lawyer-alludes-another-gilgo-beach-suspect/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. That suspect, Brown said, was from Massapequa, Long Island, which is also where the current suspect lived.
Defense attorneys are now looking through the <a href="https://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/gilgo-beach-killings/gilgo-beach-killings-rex-heuermann-a4jihxex" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly 3,000</a> police tips that came in during the search for the murderer to see if anyone else was implicated.
Meanwhile, the suspect now claims he is “depressed and lonely” in jail, the Independent <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/gilgo-beach-rex-heuermann-lonely-depressed-jail-b2492331.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. His attorney said at the hearing on Tuesday that the suspect is receiving counseling.
The suspect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-a-pizza-box-and-hair-led-police-to-the-suspected-gilgo-beach-serial-killer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was arrested</a> on July 13 for the murder of the three women. Six days after his arrest, his wife filed for divorce. She and other family members reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gilgo-beach-serial-killer-suspects-family-to-make-1-million-for-docuseries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will receive</a> $1 million for participating in a documentary series with Peacock. The project will follow the family’s lives as they cope with the upcoming trial and how it has uprooted their lives.
Police investigating the Gilgo Beach serial killings are operating on the theory that the suspect committed the murders in his own home, a source told CNN.
The theory is based on the repeated claim that the suspect’s family was out of town during the murders, suggesting he may have lured the victims to his home, a source involved in the investigation <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/us/gilgo-beach-serial-killings-rex-heuermann-house/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the outlet.
Authorities are operating under this theory, the source said, as they continue to search the suspect’s home for trace evidence of the victims. Killing them at his own home would have allowed him to control the environment while having easy access to the materials found along with the victims at Gilgo Beach, such as tape and burlap bags.
Four bodies were found within days of each other. The body of Barthelemy was found on December 11, 2010, during a police training exercise with a K9, according to <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23876053-heuermann-bail-application" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a bail application</a> obtained by the Daily Beast. Two days later, police searched the area and discovered the three other bodies.
If convicted, the suspect faces multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Suspect’s Attorneys Point To Alternate Suspect

An attorney representing the families of two of the Gilgo Beach murder victims claims that the suspect’s wife may have been in town during one of the killings.
Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney has long maintained that the serial killer suspect’s wife was out of town when each of the four murders occurred, but attorney John Ray is arguing that is not the case, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/04/news/alleged-gilgo-beach-killers-wife-may-have-been-in-town-during-murder-attorney-claims/amp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Ray, who is representing the families of victims Shannan Gilbert and Jessica Taylor, says he spoke to an Atlantic City hotel manager who said the serial killer suspect’s wife and her children arrived at their destination on a different day than investigators believe.
The Daily Wire is not naming the suspect or his wife, who has not been charged with any crimes and is not suspected of any. An attorney for the wife, Bob Macedonio, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/contentious-claim-gilgo-beach-serial-killer-case-could-set-suspect-free" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News that if Ray is right about the timeline, the case against her husband could fall apart.
&#8220;When, in the course of any investigations on any criminal matters, do they do that up front in a bail application?&#8221; he told the outlet. &#8220;Very, very rarely. … If he&#8217;s wrong, it creates reasonable doubt in his whole case.&#8221;
The suspect has pleaded not guilty to the murders of Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy, and Amber Costello, who were found on a beach along the south shore of Long Island, New York, back in 2010. In January, the suspect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gilgo-beach-serial-killer-suspect-charged-with-4th-murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was charged</a> with the murder of a fourth woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes. He has not been charged with the murders of Gilbert and Taylor, whose bodies were also found on Gilgo Beach. It was actually Gilbert’s disappearance and the subsequent search for her body that revealed the bodies of other women and at least one man in the same area.
Macedonio, the attorney for the suspect’s wife, denied what the hotel manager allegedly said and has sent a letter to the hotel demanding it reveal the employee’s name who disclosed confidential information about his client or give a statement on the record saying the claim is untrue.
The suspect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-a-pizza-box-and-hair-led-police-to-the-suspected-gilgo-beach-serial-killer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was arrested</a> on July 13 for the murder of the three women. Six days after his arrest, his wife filed for divorce. She and other family members reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gilgo-beach-serial-killer-suspects-family-to-make-1-million-for-docuseries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will receive</a> $1 million for participating in a documentary series with Peacock. The project will follow the family’s lives as they cope with the upcoming trial and how it has uprooted their lives.
Police investigating the Gilgo Beach serial killings are operating on the theory that the suspect committed the murders in his own home, a source told CNN.
The theory is based on the repeated claim that the suspect’s family was out of town during the murders, suggesting he may have lured the victims to his home, a source involved in the investigation <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/us/gilgo-beach-serial-killings-rex-heuermann-house/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the outlet.
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Authorities are operating under this theory, the source said, as they continue to search the suspect’s home for trace evidence of the victims. Killing them at his own home would have allowed him to control the environment while having easy access to the materials found along with the victims at Gilgo Beach, such as tape and burlap bags.
Four bodies were found within days of each other. The body of Barthelemy was found on December 11, 2010, during a police training exercise with a K9, according to <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23876053-heuermann-bail-application" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a bail application</a> obtained by the Daily Beast. Two days later, police searched the area and discovered the three other bodies.
If convicted, the suspect faces multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Accused Gilgo Beach Serial Killer’s Wife May Have Been In Town During One Of The Murders, Attorney Claims

Accused Gilgo Beach Serial Killer's Wife May Have Been In Town During One Of The Murders, Attorney Claims

Remains belonging to the Green River Killer’s last known victim have been identified, 20 years after the killer himself showed authorities where the victim had been left.
Gary Ridgway, known as the Green River Killer, was a prolific serial killer who murdered women and teenage girls throughout the 1980s and ’90s, until he was caught in 2001. He has pleaded guilty to the murders of 49 women and is suspected of killing upwards of 90.
In 2003, Ridgway led authorities to an area where he said he had left his final victim, the King’s County, Washington, Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) said in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KingCountySheriff/posts/pfbid0zRf26kpgppNUBu6bALBPxhwF3B9NGzTxWadZvYajke2xYzTrYHfHp4TxjgatujoNl">a press release</a>. There, law enforcement found the partial remains of a teenage girl, but without the ability to identify her when her remains were located, she was labeled Bones 20, and remained with that identification for the next two decades.
In 2022, authorities had given the bones to Othram Inc., a private laboratory that has been helping law enforcement solve crimes and identify bodies by comparing DNA to databases of those who have voluntarily provided DNA to genealogy kits, like “23 and Me,” and finding family members of the deceased.
In August 2023, Othram told the KCSO they had developed a DNA profile for the unknown victim, and had tentatively identified her as Tammie Liles. Liles has previously been identified as a murder victim in 1988 after a separate set of remains were discovered in King County. Dental records from those remains identified the victim as Liles.
Liles’ mother was contacted after Othram’s tentative identification, and a DNA sample was obtained from her. The University of North Texas was able to determine that the victim was, indeed, Tammie Liles.
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Just last month, authorities were able to identify another victim of the Green River Killer. In 1985, authorities discovered two sets of human remains, which were labeled Bones 16 and Bones 17. Bones 16 were identified in 2012 through DNA testing as Sandra Majors.
Bones 17 remained unidentified until December 2023, when investigators working with Parabon NanoLabs used forensic genetic genealogy to identify the remains as Lori Anne Ratzpotnik, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/green-river-killer-gary-ridgway-victim-lori-anne-ratzpotnik-bones-17/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time.
Ratzpotnik, 15, and Liles, 16, were both runaways.
“It’s an immense feeling of satisfaction that in this case, that started in the early 80s, we are able to identify all of Gary Ridgway’s victims. All 49 of them,” KCSO spokesperson Eric White <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/last-known-set-of-remains-linked-to-green-river-killer-identified-as-everett-teen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Seattle Times.
Ridgway is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole at the Washington State Penitentiary, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/23/news/remains-of-green-river-killers-last-known-victim-idd-as-tammie-lies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.

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Last Known Victim Of The ‘Green River Killer’ Identified After 20 Years

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York</a> man suspected of killing at least three women in the Gilgo Beach area has now been charged with the murder of a fourth.
The 60-year-old suspect, who The Daily Wire is not naming due to a policy regarding alleged mass killers, was charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, ABC New York <a href="https://abc7ny.com/gilgo-beach-murders-rex-heuermann-court-murder-charge/14329110/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The man already has pleaded not guilty to the murders of Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy, and Amber Costello, who were found on a beach along the south shore of Long Island, New York, back in 2010.
The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office announced that the suspect had been linked to Brainard-Barnes through DNA evidence and that her death fits the pattern of the other three victims, including the fact that the suspect’s family was out of the state during the woman’s disappearance.
Court documents obtained by ABC show that prosecutors seized two phones from the suspect when he was arrested last year, claiming the phones were used “in furtherance of hundreds of contacts with sex-workers between 2020 and 2023.&#8221; In addition to the phones, investigators also revealed in the filing that they seized hundreds of other electronic devices from the suspect’s home and office, adding that the suspect obsessively searched for information about the Gilgo Beach victims.
&#8220;Defendant&#8217;s devices also contained the following: A collection of violent, bondage, and torture pornography preceding, during, and subsequent to the disappearances and murders of the aforementioned victims between 2007 and 2010; and prostitution-related searches preceding, during, and subsequent to the disappearances and murders of the aforementioned victims between 2007 and 2010,” prosecutors said in the filing.
The suspect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-a-pizza-box-and-hair-led-police-to-the-suspected-gilgo-beach-serial-killer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was arrested</a> on July 13 for the murder of the three women. Six days after his arrest, his wife filed for divorce. She and other family members reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gilgo-beach-serial-killer-suspects-family-to-make-1-million-for-docuseries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will receive</a> $1 million for participating in a documentary series with Peacock. The project will follow the family’s lives as they cope with the upcoming trial and how it has uprooted their lives.
Police investigating the Gilgo Beach serial killings are operating on the theory that the suspect committed the murders in his own home, a source told CNN.
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The theory is based on the fact that the suspect’s family was out of town during the murders, suggesting he may have lured the victims to his home, a source involved in the investigation <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/us/gilgo-beach-serial-killings-rex-heuermann-house/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the outlet.
Authorities are operating under this theory, the source said, as they continue to search the suspect’s home for trace evidence of the victims. Killing them at his own home would have allowed him to control the environment while having easy access to the materials found along with the victims at Gilgo Beach, such as tape and burlap bags.
Four bodies were found within days of each other. The body of Barthelemy was found on December 11, 2010, during a police training exercise with a K9, according to <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23876053-heuermann-bail-application" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a bail application</a> obtained by the Daily Beast. Two days later, police searched the area and discovered the three other bodies.
If convicted, the suspect faces multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Suspect Charged With 4th Murder

Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Suspect Charged With Fourth Murder

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york">New York</a> man suspected of killing at least three women in the Gilgo Beach area is expected to be charged this week with the murder of a fourth.
The 60-year-old suspect, who The Daily Wire is not naming due to a policy regarding mass killers, is expected to be charged with the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-gilgo-beach-killings-charged-fourth-count-murder-rcna133893?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&amp;_branch_match_id=953778272198107271&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_campaign=NBC%20News&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXz0tKzkstL9ZLLCjQy8nMy9Z3LApLC8vxqchzTwIAP19IkSQAAAA%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to NBC News</a>. The man already has pleaded not guilty to the murders of Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy, and Amber Costello, who were found on a beach along the south shore of Long Island, New York, back in 2010.
Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney is expected to announce the new charges on Tuesday, and court documents pertaining to those charges will be unsealed at the same time. The man has always been the prime suspect in Brainard-Barnes’ murder, but authorities didn’t have the evidence to charge him with her death when he was charged with the other three murders.
The suspect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-a-pizza-box-and-hair-led-police-to-the-suspected-gilgo-beach-serial-killer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was arrested</a> on July 13 for the murder of the three women. Six days after his arrest, his wife filed for divorce. She and other family members reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gilgo-beach-serial-killer-suspects-family-to-make-1-million-for-docuseries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will receive</a> $1 million for participating in a documentary series with Peacock. The project will follow the family’s lives as they cope with the upcoming trial and how it has uprooted their lives.
Police investigating the Gilgo Beach serial killings are operating on the theory that the suspect committed the murders in his own home, a source told CNN.
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The theory is based on the fact that the suspect’s family was out of town during the murders, suggesting he may have lured the victims to his home, a source involved in the investigation <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/us/gilgo-beach-serial-killings-rex-heuermann-house/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the outlet.
Authorities are operating under this theory, the source said, as they continue to search the suspect’s home for trace evidence of the victims. Killing them at his own home would have allowed him to control the environment while having easy access to the materials found along with the victims at Gilgo Beach, such as tape and burlap bags.
Four bodies were found within days of each other. The body of Barthelemy was found on December 11, 2010, during a police training exercise with a K9, according to <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23876053-heuermann-bail-application" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a bail application</a> obtained by the Daily Beast. Two days later, police searched the area and discovered the three other bodies.
If convicted, the suspect faces multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Nassau County Police Car Outside Suspected Serial Killer’s House

Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Suspect Expected To Be Charged In Murder Of 4th Woman

DNA from the wife of the accused Gilgo Beach serial killer matches DNA found on one of the alleged victims, but she is not accused of any wrongdoing.
The wife, who is not being named by The Daily Wire because we are not naming the suspect, provided a cheek swab to authorities on the night her husband was arrested for the murders of three women whose bodies were found near Gilgo Beach on Long Island back in 2010, ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/gilgo-beach-suspects-wifes-cheek-swab-matches-dna/story?id=105265468" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Prosecutors told the outlet that the wife’s hair was found on the burlap that was wrapped around the bodies.
The wife, however, was out of town during the murders, clearing her of any participation in the crimes. As to how her hair was found at the crime scene, her attorney Robert Macedonio <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/30/metro/rex-heuermanns-estranged-wifes-cheek-swab-matches-dna-found-on-victims-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the New York Post that the hair was likely transferred from “inside the house.”
The wife and other family members reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gilgo-beach-serial-killer-suspects-family-to-make-1-million-for-docuseries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will receive</a> $1 million for participating in a documentary series with Peacock. The project will follow the family’s lives as they cope with the upcoming trial and how it has uprooted their lives.
The suspect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-a-pizza-box-and-hair-led-police-to-the-suspected-gilgo-beach-serial-killer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was arrested</a> on July 13 for the murder of three women whose bodies were found on Gilgo Beach in Long Island, New York, in 2010. Six days after his arrest, his wife filed for divorce.
She will now begin attending each of his court appearances to see the evidence against her husband, ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/gilgo-beach-suspect-rex-heuermanns-estranged-wife-court/story?id=104858840" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The estranged wife also visited her husband in jail recently.
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The suspect’s estranged wife talked to reporters for the first time in July after investigators finished searching the family home, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/28/gilgo-beach-suspect-rex-heuermanns-estranged-wife-breaks-her-silence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time.
“If you want to take pictures, go ahead. I’m OK with it now,” the woman told reporters, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12349299/Gilgo-Beach-killers-wife-Asa-Ellerup-breaks-silence-say-husband-Rex-Heuermanns-three-alleged-murders-left-depressed-traumatized.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Daily Mail</a>. “If you want to stand up here and wait for something. I have a lot of work to do.”
“The sheer depression of what I saw was enough trauma,” she added.
After filing for divorce, the woman’s attorney, Macedonio, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/rex-heuermanns-wife-pictured-first-time-files-divorce-gilgo-beach-serial-slaying-suspect" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News that the arrest had taken a toll on the family.
“This is all still a whirlwind,” Macedonio told the outlet. “Her and her children’s lives have been completely turned upside-down.”
Macedonio further said that about an hour after the 59-year-old suspect was arrested, authorities went to his house and informed his family. They then seized the family’s passports, computers, phones, and iPads.
“They were home and the cops came in, and they were completely blindsided, and they told them what was going on,” Macedonio told Fox.
Police investigating the Gilgo Beach serial killings are operating on the theory that the suspect committed the murders in his own home, a source told CNN.
The theory is based on the fact that the suspect’s family was out of town during the murders, suggesting he may have lured the victims to his home, a source involved in the investigation <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/us/gilgo-beach-serial-killings-rex-heuermann-house/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CNN.
Authorities are operating under this theory, the source said, as they continue to search the suspect’s home for trace evidence of the victims. Killing them at his own home would have allowed him to control the environment while having easy access to the materials found along with the victims at Gilgo Beach on Long Island, such as tape and burlap bags.
Four bodies were found within days of each other. The body of Melissa Barthelemy was found on December 11, 2010, during a police training exercise with a K9, according to <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23876053-heuermann-bail-application" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a bail application</a> obtained by the Daily Beast. Two days later, police searched the area and discovered the bodies of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello. So far, the suspect has not been charged for Brainard-Barnes’ death but is the prime suspect.
If convicted, he faces multiple life sentences without parole.

DNA From Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Suspect’s Wife Matches Hairs Found On Bodies, But She Is Not Accused Of Wrongdoing

DNA From Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Suspect's Wife Matches Hairs Found On Bodies, But She Is Not Accused Of Wrongdoing

The widow of a French serial killer who was previously convicted of helping her husband kidnap and murder virgins has been charged in her alleged role in three additional murders.
Monique Olivier, wife of serial killer Michel Fourniret, will face trial over charges of aiding and abetting the kidnapping and murder of three young women decades ago, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monique-olivier-widow-of-serial-killer-michel-fourniret-faces-trial-over-cold-cases/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Her husband had been charged with abduction, rape, and murder in the three cases but died in 2021 before he could stand trial.
The oldest of the charges relates to the 1988 disappearance of Marie-Angele Domece, who was just 18 when she vanished from Auxerre, France. Her body was never found. Olivier is also charged in the 1990 murder of Joanna Parrish, a 20-year-old British woman whose naked body was found in the Yonne River in France.
Finally, Olivier is charged with complicity in the 2003 disappearance of Estelle Mouzin, 9, whose body has never been found.
Olivier and Fourniret were previously found guilty in 2008 in relation to numerous murders, the Associated Press <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/virgin-serial-killer-and-wife-convicted/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time. Fourniret, then 66, was sentenced to life in prison for murdering seven women, most of whom were raped. The women, who were between the ages of 12 and 21, were strangled, shot, or stabbed with a screwdriver during Fourniret’s serial killings that occurred between 1987 and 2001. He reportedly targeted the women because they were virgins.
In addition to the murder convictions, Fourniret was also convicted of raping or attempting to rape all the victims.
For her part, Olivier was convicted of complicity for four of the murders and also sentenced to life in prison, but could be considered for early release after serving 28 years. Prosecutors alleged that Olivier helped her husband find virgins to feed his sexual fantasies.
Fourniret was detained by Belgian police in June 2003 after a failed kidnapping attempt of a 13-year-old girl. The girl was able to give police the license plate number of the man who kidnapped her after she was able to free herself from bindings and escape out of the back of Fourniret’s van.
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Fourniret died in 2021 at the age of 79, never facing trial for the three additional victims, even though he asked in 2008 to be tried for those murders, CBS reported.
Eric Mouzin, whose 9-year-old daughter Estelle was one of Fourniret’s victims, said only trying Olivier was &#8220;somewhat short of the mark,&#8221; according to CBS. &#8220;It will be difficult to pass judgment with only a single defendant,&#8221; he added.
Olivier’s attorney, Richard Delgenes, said that the court should “not expect any revelations” about her part in the crimes but that her participation level sets her apart from her husband.
&#8220;Unlike him, she takes no special pleasure in the pain of his victims or of the families,&#8221; he said, according to CBS.

Monique Olivier

Widow Of Serial Killer Charged With Aiding In Kidnappings And Murders

Widow Of French Serial Killer Charged With Aiding In Kidnappings And Murders

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The family of the suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer has reportedly made a deal with Peacock worth $1 million to make a documentary series.
Two independent sources <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/murder-gilgo-beach-family-earn-money-rex-heurmann/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NewsNation that the suspect’s wife and family will receive $1 million for participating in the project, which will follow their lives as they cope with the upcoming trial and how it has uprooted their lives.
The suspect, who The Daily Wire is not naming, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-a-pizza-box-and-hair-led-police-to-the-suspected-gilgo-beach-serial-killer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was arrested</a> on July 13 for the murder of three women whose bodies were found on Gilgo Beach in Long Island, New York, in 2010. Six days after his arrest, his wife filed for divorce.
She will now begin attending each of his court appearances to see the evidence against her husband, ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/gilgo-beach-suspect-rex-heuermanns-estranged-wife-court/story?id=104858840" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The estranged wife also visited her husband in jail recently.
The suspect’s estranged wife talked to reporters for the first time in July after investigators finished searching the family home, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/28/gilgo-beach-suspect-rex-heuermanns-estranged-wife-breaks-her-silence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time.
“If you want to take pictures, go ahead. I’m OK with it now,” the woman told reporters, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12349299/Gilgo-Beach-killers-wife-Asa-Ellerup-breaks-silence-say-husband-Rex-Heuermanns-three-alleged-murders-left-depressed-traumatized.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Daily Mail</a>. “If you want to stand up here and wait for something. I have a lot of work to do.”
“The sheer depression of what I saw was enough trauma,” she added.
After filing for divorce, the woman’s attorney, Bob Macedonio, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/rex-heuermanns-wife-pictured-first-time-files-divorce-gilgo-beach-serial-slaying-suspect" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News that the arrest had taken a toll on the family.
“This is all still a whirlwind,” Macedonio told the outlet. “Her and her children’s lives have been completely turned upside-down.”
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Macedonio further said that about an hour after the 59-year-old suspect was arrested, authorities went to his house and informed his family. They then seized the family’s passports, computers, phones, and iPads.
“They were home and the cops came in, and they were completely blindsided, and they told them what was going on,” Macedonio told Fox.
Police investigating the Gilgo Beach serial killings are operating on the theory that the suspect committed the murders in his own home, a source told CNN.
The theory is based on the fact that the suspect’s family was out of town during the murders, suggesting he may have lured the victims to his home, a source involved in the investigation <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/us/gilgo-beach-serial-killings-rex-heuermann-house/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CNN.
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Authorities are operating under this theory, the source said, as they continue to search the suspect’s home for trace evidence of the victims. Killing them at his own home would have allowed him to control the environment while having easy access to the materials found along with the victims at Gilgo Beach on Long Island, such as tape and burlap bags.
Four bodies were found within days of each other. The body of Melissa Barthelemy was found on December 11, 2010, during a police training exercise with a K9, according to <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23876053-heuermann-bail-application" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a bail application</a> obtained by the Daily Beast. Two days later, police searched the area and discovered the bodies of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello. So far, the suspect has not been charged for Brainard-Barnes’ death but is the prime suspect.
If convicted, he faces multiple life sentences without parole.

Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Suspect’s Family To Make $1 Million For Docuseries

Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Suspect's Family To Make $1 Million For Docuseries

The estranged wife of the man accused of being the Gilgo Beach serial killer attended one of his court hearings on Wednesday, the first time she has appeared in court.
The woman, who will not be named since The Daily Wire isn’t naming her husband, filed for divorce just six days after her husband was arrested for allegedly killing three prostitutes and dumping their bodies on Gilgo Beach. The woman’s attorney suggested she would begin attending every court date so that she can see the evidence against her husband, ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/gilgo-beach-suspect-rex-heuermanns-estranged-wife-court/story?id=104858840" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The estranged wife also visited her husband in jail recently and is reportedly under contract with a production company, ABC reported.
The court appearance on Wednesday allowed attorneys and prosecutors to handle future scheduling matters.
The suspect’s estranged wife talked to reporters for the first time in July after investigators finished searching the property, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/28/gilgo-beach-suspect-rex-heuermanns-estranged-wife-breaks-her-silence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time.
“If you want to take pictures, go ahead. I’m OK with it now,” the woman told reporters, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12349299/Gilgo-Beach-killers-wife-Asa-Ellerup-breaks-silence-say-husband-Rex-Heuermanns-three-alleged-murders-left-depressed-traumatized.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Daily Mail</a>. “If you want to stand up here and wait for something. I have a lot of work to do.”
“The sheer depression of what I saw was enough trauma,” she added.
After filing for divorce, the woman’s attorney, Bob Macedonio, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/rex-heuermanns-wife-pictured-first-time-files-divorce-gilgo-beach-serial-slaying-suspect" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News that the arrest had taken a toll on the family.
“This is all still a whirlwind,” Macedonio told the outlet. “Her and her children’s lives have been completely turned upside-down.”
Macedonio further said that about an hour after the 59-year-old suspect was arrested, authorities went to his house and informed his family. They then seized the family’s passports, computers, phones, and iPads.
“They were home and the cops came in, and they were completely blindsided, and they told them what was going on,” Macedonio told Fox.
Police investigating the Gilgo Beach serial killings are operating on the theory that the suspect committed the murders in his own home, a source told CNN.
The theory is based on the fact that the suspect’s family was out of town during the murders, suggesting he may have lured the victims to his home, a source involved in the investigation <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/us/gilgo-beach-serial-killings-rex-heuermann-house/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CNN.
Authorities are operating under this theory, the source said, as they continue to search the suspect’s home for trace evidence of the victims. Killing them at his own home would have allowed him to control the environment while having easy access to the materials found along with the victims at Gilgo Beach on Long Island, such as tape and burlap bags.
The 59-year-old suspect, who remained unidentified for more than a decade, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-a-pizza-box-and-hair-led-police-to-the-suspected-gilgo-beach-serial-killer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was arrested</a> on July 13 for the murder of three women whose bodies were found on Gilgo Beach in Long Island, New York, in 2010.
Four bodies were found within days of each other. The body of Melissa Barthelemy was found on December 11, 2010, during a police training exercise with a K9, according to <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23876053-heuermann-bail-application" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a bail application</a> obtained by the Daily Beast. Two days later, police searched the area and discovered the bodies of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello. So far, the suspect has not been charged for Brainard-Barnes’ death but is the prime suspect.
If convicted, he faces multiple life sentences without parole.

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Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Suspect’s Estranged Wife Attends Court Hearing, Wants To See Evidence For Herself

Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Suspect's Estranged Wife Attends Court Hearing, Wants To See Evidence For Herself

A Texas man convicted of murdering two elderly women and suspected of killing many more was killed by his cellmate, state authorities said.
Billy Chemirmir, 50, was found dead in his prison cell on Tuesday after his cellmate attacked him, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice told media outlets, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/convicted-murderer-billy-chemirmir-dead/story?id=103321436" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to ABC News</a>. Chemirmir was being held at the Coffield Unit in Tennessee Colony, Texas.
The cellmate, who has not been named, is currently serving his sentence on a murder conviction from Harris County. It is unknown how the cellmate allegedly killed Chemirmir, but Texas’ Office of Inspector General is investigating.
Chemirmir was a Kenyan citizen whose citizenship had been questioned in the past. In 2020, The Dallas Morning News <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2020/02/17/fact-check-serial-murder-suspect-bill-chemirmir-is-not-an-unauthorized-immigrant-ice-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Chemirmir had permanent resident status, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
He was arrested twice for driving while intoxicated, in 2010 and 2011, and also had an arrest for a family violence charge in 2012, for which he spent 70 days in the Dallas County Jail. In 2016, he was arrested for criminal trespassing and sentenced to 70 days in jail but was released after just 12 days for good behavior.
Michelle Saenz-Rodriguez, a Dallas immigration attorney, told the Morning News that those charges wouldn’t get Chemirmir deported. And while domestic violence is a deportable offense, assault is not.
When Chemirmir was arrested and charged with capital murder in 2018, an immigration hold was placed on his file, meaning that when he was released from state custody, ICE could begin deportation proceedings.
In 2022, Chemirmir was convicted by two separate juries of killing two elderly women, Lu Thi Haris, 81, and Mary Brooks, 87. Chemirmir, who worked as a home health care aide in North Texas, was accused of murdering his elderly patients and stealing their valuables.
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He was also indicted on 22 capital murder charges in Dallas and Collin Counties, ABC reported.
Last month, prosecutors in Collin County said they would not seek the death penalty for Chemirmir on the nine capital murder charges he faced.
&#8220;I won&#8217;t be mourning the murder of convicted serial killer Billy Chemirmir. Rather, my thoughts today are with the families of the precious ladies he murdered,&#8221; Collin County Criminal District Attorney Greg Willis said in a statement, according to ABC. &#8220;These families have been through more than we can imagine, and I pray that someday they can find peace.&#8221;
In addition to murder charges, Chemirmir was also accused of killing six additional victims <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alleged-illegal-alien-serial-killer-now-accused-ryan-saavedra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in lawsuits</a> from family members against the senior living complex where Chemirmir worked. The family members – representing five women and one man who were killed – filed separate lawsuits in 2018.

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Suspected Texas Serial Killer Murdered By Cellmate

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Authorities in Oklahoma are searching for additional “trophies” that the serial killer known as &#8220;BTK&#8221; said he hid in various locations.
On Tuesday, the Osage County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO) held a press conference to announce the new initiative, following the formation of a new task force.
“We have locations provided to us by BTK where he says he has other trophies hidden. We are in the process of working to go try to recover those items,” Sheriff Eddie Virden said, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/12/us/btk-serial-killer-dennis-rader-trophies-national-task-force/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to CNN</a>.
The search for BTK’s “trophies” stems from a 2008 letter that the serial killer, whose real name is Dennis Rader, wrote from prison explaining that he had buried various items under the floor of his backyard shed. Less than a month ago, Osage County investigators recovered some of those items in a hole on the property where Rader used to live with his family. Rader is known to have kept jewelry, clothing, and other items belonging to his victims.
On Monday, the OCSO <a href="https://www.ocso.net/sheriff-virden-national-btk-task-force-cold-case-pawhuska/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that it was forming a new National BTK Task Force that would see experts and resources from law enforcement agencies in Oklahoma and Kansas, as well as federal agencies, working together to solve a 1976 cold case that may be linked to BTK.
In August, Rader was named the prime suspect in the 1976 disappearance of Cynthia Dawn Kinney, 16, in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, as well as the 1990 murder of Shawna Beth Garber, 22, in McDonald County, Missouri. Kinney’s body has never been found, but investigators are operating on the theory that Rader may have buried her in a barn near the Kansas-Oklahoma border. Months after she disappeared, police received an anonymous call from a man claiming her body could be found in an old barn.
The task force is working to solve Kinney’s disappearance.
“My father absolutely loves barns and silos,” Rader’s daughter, Kerri Rawson, told CNN.
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“Every time we drove around going camping, fishing, to college, he’d absolutely say this one – like he said, I want to retire here. And he would tease my mom about it,” Rawson added. “And then after he was arrested, we found out later that he had massive fantasies about those specific locations. So now we’re driving around trying to find those by my memory and noting them because we need to go see, is there anybody missing or buried there.”
Earlier this month, the OCSO released decades-old sketches from Rader, whose serial killer nickname stands for “Bind, Torture, Kill.” Rader is currently serving ten consecutive life sentences for the people he pleaded guilty to killing throughout the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s. When he was arrested in 2005, hundreds of sketches showing women bound and gagged, with nooses around their necks, were collected, the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12479295/Chilling-never-seen-sketches-BTK-serial-killer-showing-girls-bound-gagged-nooses-necks-released-cops-hunt-clues-case-missing-girl.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
One of the images, which is just now being released, shows three different women bound and gagged in what is believed to be a barn. The OCSO released the images as part of a new investigation, launched in January, into potential additional victims, the Independent <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/btk-serial-killer-drawings-released-b2404584.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Sheriff Virden and his team believe some of the colored sketches depict additional crimes Rader may have committed.

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