He got scammed on the first visit. Came back the next night. And the roommate who saw the truck — a first-generation Chevrolet Avalanche — gave investigators the description that eventually led to Rex Heuermann’s front door. Amber Costello was 27, living in West Babylon, battling addiction, working as an Read more…
The evidentiary record in both of these cases is extensive — and it keeps expanding. Rex Heuermann has pleaded guilty to seven counts of murder in the Gilgo Beach serial killing case and admitted to killing an eighth victim, Karen Vergata. The investigation that built this case used DNA analysis, Read more…
This is where the Bateman series lands — and it doesn’t land clean. Fifty years for the prophet. Life for the father who delivered his own daughters. Thirty-five years for the money man. Seven wives convicted. All eleven co-defendants held accountable. By the numbers, the federal justice system did its Read more…
The investigative record on the Duggar family keeps expanding. Josh Duggar is serving a twelve-and-a-half-year federal sentence for possession of child sexual abuse material. Before that conviction, documentation shows Jim Bob Duggar knew about Josh’s conduct toward family members and handled it without law enforcement involvement. Joseph Duggar now faces Read more…
Megan Waterman was 22 years old, from Maine, a mother to a three-year-old daughter she called every single day without exception. When those calls stopped in June 2010, her family didn’t wait. They reported her missing within two days. The last image of Megan alive is surveillance footage from a Read more…
Two young women were told the system would handle it. It didn’t. So they hired attorneys, filed motions, and forced a Payne County judge to order something that almost never happens — an evidentiary hearing where the DA’s office has to explain, under oath, how a plea deal was negotiated. Read more…
When Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty in Suffolk County Court, his ex-wife Asa Ellerup and their daughter Victoria were seated in the last row of a packed courtroom. The victims’ families occupied reserved seats closer to the front. Some wept as Heuermann described his crimes. The dynamic inside that room deserves Read more…
The blueprint was on his computer. Checklists for limiting noise. Instructions for cleaning bodies. Notes on destroying evidence. Investigators recovered it from devices seized during a twelve-day search of Rex Heuermann’s home in Massapequa Park — a search that also turned up a basement vault containing hundreds of weapons and Read more…
A man used Melissa Barthelemy’s phone to call her 15-year-old sister five times over five weeks. The calls were vulgar, mocking, sadistic — and operationally precise. Under three minutes each. From crowded Manhattan locations. The caller hung up on Melissa’s mother and spoke only to the teenager. Law enforcement described Read more…
Two cases. Three women. And the same question running underneath all of it — what does the mind do when the truth is something it cannot afford to see? Rex Heuermann is charged with murdering seven women along the Gilgo Beach corridor and is reportedly expected to enter a guilty Read more…