I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s killed more, though we may never know. Murderers like these never have enough.
Tierney said the discovery of a digital “planning document” on one of 350 electronic devices seized from Heuermann’s Massapequa Park, New York, home…
That is an awfully big number of electronic devices for a person to have. [Although on thinking it over maybe they are including a bunch of CDs…]
It’s a reasonable number if you’re trying to be untraceable. For the rest of us, it’s a ginormous red flag.
The scary part of this to me is the widened timeline and geographic range. Gilgo Beach is just 25 minutes from his home, but North Sea, where the murder victim from 1993 was found, is 60 miles away.
It’s horrifying to think that there could be many other possible victims from the 90s and early 2000s that he killed and buried in isolated beach spots. Where he lives on Long Island is quite built up (I live 20 minutes away) but he didn’t have to travel too far to find places to dispose of victims. And this latest case shows that he had other killing grounds.
For years prosecutors saw a connection in the killings of three young women who disappeared in the winter of 1993 and 1994, their nude bodies found strangled, beaten and left in similar poses in the Long Island brush. In new charges unveiled Thursday, prosecutors said Rex Heuermann — the man already accused in a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach serial killings — was responsible for the death of one of the women, Sanda Costilla. That in turn has raised questions about the conviction of another man, John Bittrolff, who is incarcerated for the murder of the other two women — Rita Tangredi and Colleen McNamee — and who prosecutors once considered a suspect in Costilla’s death.
Wouldn’t even have to be that. I’m sure I have >350 electronic devices at my house; maybe >1000. TVs, monitors, computers, laptops, tablets, game consoles, Raspberry Pis, USB drives, memory cards, cameras, video cards, RAM sticks, hard drives, motherboards, power supplies, etc. Not to mention edge cases like USB chargers, speakers, etc. Not all of this stuff can store files, but undoubtedly the police collected anything that remotely looked like it might store something and simply tagged them all individually.
TL : DR - an innocent man may be in prison for some of these murders. (Chances are, he’s done other stuff, so that’s how he ended up on law enforcement’s radar.) Since his name was found in Rex’s electronic history, one wonders if RH sat there and cackled while this man went to prison for something he may not have done.
Wouldn’t surprise me if there are more.
Here’s another article that also goes into some of the legal process and a rule that might allow them to mail this (alleged) monster.
But where will they mail him too? Anywhere they pick will just mark him “Return to Sender” and soon enough he’ll be back in their lap.
I suggest the Arctic. Let the polar bears have their fun.
The Dead Letter Office, perhaps?
I’d prefer not to.
So, how many of us possess 350+ “electronic devices”?
It was previously discussed upthread, if you count USBs, DVDs, CDs, & maybe even floppies (remember it’s been 20+ years since the first person he was alleged to have killed) it might not be so many
Aha! A stash of drones has been discovered.
ETA an old thread popped up into my feed where it was suggested that the killer had a law enforcement background. Pretty far off.
Here’s an attempt at a list
When Maureen Brainard-Barnes’ skeletal remains were found hidden in the roadside scrub near Long Island’s Gilgo Beach in the winter of 2010, there was hardly any physical evidence that might help investigators find her killer, save for a single stray hair.
But at the time, extracting DNA evidence from the degraded strand was beyond the capabilities of crime labs. Investigators kept looking for other clues that might help them identify a suspected serial killer who had scattered women’s bodies along a coastal parkway.
Then, about seven years ago, investigators turned to Astrea Forensics, a California lab using new techniques to analyze old, highly degraded DNA samples — including rootless hairs like the one discovered with Brainard-Barnes’ body.
Defense lawyers have opposed allowing DNA evidence from the prosecution from the very beginning. In their view, it’s only an acceptable tool when it gets their clients out of jail.
Probably just a harmless exercise of fantasy. 