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Son Of Gilgo Beach Murder Victim Sues Rex Heuermann, Family
The son of a Gilgo Beach serial killer victim has sued accused murderer Rex Heuermann and his family, days before Heuermann pleaded guilty in eight slayings.
Benjamin Torres, the son of Valerie Mack, filed the wrongful death suit Monday, April 6 in Suffolk County, NY court, Newsday reported. Heuermann, 62, who pleaded guilty to Mack’s killing on Wednesday, April 8.
Mack was 24 years old and earning money as a sex worker in Pennsylvania when she disappeared in 2000, according to authorities. Some of her body parts were later found on Gilgo Beach, part of a wide-ranging investigation int…
New Long Island Serial Murders Update: Suspect's Wife Reportedly Files For Divorce
The wife of Rex Heuermann, the suspected Long Island Gilgo Beach killer, has reportedly filed for divorce less than a week after his arrest.
Heuermann, of the village of Massapequa Park in Nassau County, is charged with killing Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello and burying their bodies in a grassy area of Gilgo Beach, located in the town of Babylon in Suffolk County.
He's also a suspect in the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes.
His wife, Asa Ellerup, who, like her husband is age 59, filed for divorce on Wednesday, July 18, after 27 years of marriage, Long Island A…
DNA Technology Leads To Arraignment Of Serial Killer For 1968 Murder Of Woman At NY Mall
A 75-year-old convicted serial killer has been charged with the 1968 murder of a woman on Long Island in the parking lot of a popular mall thanks to DNA technology.
Richard Cottingham, of the South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton, New Jersey, was arraigned virtually on Wednesday, June 22, on a grand jury indictment, charging him with one count of murder, said Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly.
According to the investigation, Diane Cusick, age 23, then a resident of New Hyde Park, was an instructor at a dancing school in Oceanside.
Diane CusickNassau County District Attorne…
