Prosecutors Release Trove of New Evidence in Long Island Serial Killer Case as New Murder Charge Is Added

A slew of new evidence was released by prosecutors on Tuesday in the case of alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann, including travel records showing Heuermann’s family leaving town during the alleged murders, the suspect’s illicit online searches and investigators’ attempts to secure DNA evidence from his daughter.

The release of evidence comes as Heuermann, 60, was charged with murdering 25-year-old Maureen Brainard-Barnes, who disappeared in 2007 while working as an escort, with prosecutors linking him to her death through DNA and other evidence. Defense attorney Michael Brown entered a not guilty plea on Heuermann’s behalf to the second-degree murder charge in Suffolk County Court on Tuesday.

The former Long Island architect had already been charged in July with murdering three other escorts on New York’s Long Island. Like those victims — Megan Waterman, Amber Costello and Melissa Barthelemy — the remains of Brainard-Barnes were found in a desolate spot along the ocean near Gilgo Beach in December 2010, prosecutors said.

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