(6 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Riverhead, New York - 6 June 2024
1. Officials at podium
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ray Tierney, Suffolk County District Attorney:
"Today, as you've just seen, the the district attorney's office filed a superseding indictment charging the defendant with two additional murders. Those charges pertain to the 1993 murder of Sandra Costilla and the 2003 murder of Jessica Taylor. So that's in addition to the previously charged murders of Maureen Brainard Barnes, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello, which occurred, in 1997, 1999, June of 2010 and September of 2010, respectively."
++BLACK FRAMES ++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ray Tierney, Suffolk County District Attorney:
"Heuermann had a significant collection of violent bondage and torture pornography, which was dating back to 1994. And that material was very similar to the condition that the two latest victims were left in. In addition to that, it is alleged that the pornographic images that were accessed by Heuermann are consistent, with the crime scenes of both Sandra Costilla and Jessica Taylor."
++BLACK FRAMES ++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ray Tierney, Suffolk County District Attorney:
"Now, as part of our processing of the electronic devices, the task force discovered a Microsoft Word document entitled HK 2002-2004. That was discovered on a laptop in unallocated space, meaning there was an attempt to erase that document."
++BLACK FRAMES ++
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ray Tierney, Suffolk County District Attorney:
"The task force believes that this is a planning document and it was utilized by Heuermann to methodically blueprint and plan out his kills with excruciating detail. We allege that this document evinces the defendant's intent in committing the charge crimes, that his intent was specifically to locate these victims, to hunt them down, and to bring them, to bring them under his control and to kill them."
++BLACK FRAMES ++
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ray Tierney, Suffolk County District Attorney:
"And we allege that the methodology, that the exact method by which these murders were committed in excruciating detail in that document is in some cases identical to the methodology used to murder the six victims in this case."
7. Officials at podium
STORYLINE:
The New York architect previously accused of killing four women and leaving their corpses scattered along a coastal highway was charged Thursday in the deaths of two more, after prosecutors said they gathered new DNA evidence and found a planning document he had used to “blueprint” his crimes.
Rex Heuermann, 60, appeared before a judge on the eastern end of Long Island to face charges that he killed Jessica Taylor and Sandra Costilla, two young women who were long suspected of being the victims of men preying on sex workers.
Taylor disappeared in 2003. Costilla was killed in 1993. The new charges came just days after police finished extensive searches of Heuermann’s Massapequa Park home and a wooded area on Long Island tied to the investigation of a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach serial killings.
In a court filing, prosecutors said they were able to use new forensic testing methods to match hairs found on or near the vicinity of both victims to a DNA profile that is a likely match to Heuermann.
Additionally, prosecutors say they recovered a “planning document” on a hard drive in his basement used to “methodically blueprint” his killings.
Heuermann has not been charged in the death of Mack.
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