Three teenagers who weren’t raised together. One stateroom on a Carnival cruise ship. Parents sleeping across the hall. Anna Kepner was eighteen. Her stepbrother, now charged with her murder, was sixteen. Her biological brother was thirteen. And no adult checked Read more…
Not as much as you think. Rex Heuermann’s sentencing delivered the version the families needed: three life terms, a hundred years, a judge who called him disgusting, officers removing him while the gallery cheered. But the plea agreement underneath that Read more…
Rex Heuermann has been locked in a cell at the Riverhead Correctional Facility for over a thousand days. The Gilgo Beach killer. The LISK. The man who admitted to killing eight women across Long Island over seventeen years. And according Read more…
The judge answered that question with five words: eight that we know of. Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to eight murders in Suffolk County. He is serving three consecutive life terms plus a hundred years with no right to appeal. By Read more…
Nick Reiner case — a trust document written for an infant in 1993 is now reportedly the reason a judge may release more than $1.5 million in the middle of a murder case. And nobody updated it for thirty-two years. Read more…
By 1988, the LAPD had the ballistics. They had the pattern. Same .25 caliber weapon. Same ten-block radius in South LA. Same profile of women being killed. They knew a serial killer was responsible. They told nobody. Not the public. Read more…
Over a million dollars. That is what Asa Ellerup reportedly earned from a Peacock documentary about her ex-husband — the man who pleaded guilty to killing eight women, seven of them inside the house they shared for twenty-seven years. The Read more…
She answered the phone and heard the voice of the man who had just killed her sister. Melissa Barthelemy’s sister told a Suffolk County courtroom that Rex Heuermann called her from Melissa’s phone and described what he had done. That Read more…
Mackenzie Shirilla was thirteen years old when she started dating a sixteen-year-old. Her parents allowed it. No conditions, no conversations about what that meant for a freshman in high school. By seventeen she had moved into her boyfriend’s family home. Read more…
Victoria Heuermann says she believes her father most likely killed eight women. Asa Ellerup’s attorney says Asa may never believe it. Same confession. Same evidence. Same house — a house Asa refuses to leave, where she rebuilt the basement and Read more…
