Burlap and Blueprints: Rex Heuermann and the Gilgo Beach Murders
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The episode discusses the case of Rex Heuermann, who pleaded guilty to the murders of multiple women in Long Island, detailing the investigation and evidence that led to his arrest.
Burlap and Blueprints: Rex Heuermann and the Gilgo Beach Murders In April 2026, Rex Andrew Heuermann pleaded guilty to the murders of at least eight women in one of the most devastating serial homicide cases in Long Island history, after a decades-long investigation by the Suffolk County Police Department and the Gilgo Beach Homicide Task Force broke the case through forensic DNA evidence, surveillance, and genetic genealogy. Victims including Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Lynn Costello disappeared between 1993 and 2010 along New York's South Shore, with some remains found wrapped in burlap near Ocean Parkway. He was an architect. He designed buildings for a living. He had a wife, two kids, and a house in the suburbs where he grew up. And on a hard drive in the basement of that house, there was a Word document with sections labeled "Supplies," "Body Prep," and "Things to Remember." This is the story of how Rex Heuermann hid in plain sight for over thirty years, how corruption inside the very police department supposed to stop him helped him do it longer than anyone wants to admit, and how a discarded pizza crust in a Manhattan trash can…
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