Rex Heuermann charged with murder of fourth Gilgo Beach victim

Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann has now been charged with the murder of a fourth woman – more than a decade after she vanished from Manhattan, her body later found dumped along the Long Island shores.

The 60-year-old Manhattan-based architect appeared in Suffolk County Courthouse in Riverhead, Long Island, on Tuesday morning where he was hit with a fresh charge of second-degree murder in the death of Maureen Brainard-Barnes.

Brainard-Barnes was last seen alive on 9 July 2007, when she left a motel in Manhattan to meet a client for sex work.

At the time, the 25-year-old was living in Norwich, Connecticut, but had travelled to Manhattan in early July where she was staying at and working out of the Super 8 Motel on 59 West 46th St. She was known to advertise her services on Craigslist, Backpage and other websites under the names of Juliana or