Rex Heuermann: The Calls to Melissa's Sister and the Family Gilgo Killer Left Behind
About this episode
The episode discusses the mysterious calls made to Melissa Barthelemy's sister after her disappearance and the implications for Rex Heuermann's family amidst the ongoing investigation.
For five weeks after Melissa Barthelemy disappeared, someone used her phone to call her 15-year-old sister Amanda. The calls came from crowded Manhattan sidewalks. They lasted under three minutes. They described what had been done to Melissa. And they were aimed exclusively at the teenager — never the mother. A burner phone Melissa had connected with the day she vanished traveled from Massapequa Park to Midtown Manhattan, matching the route between Rex Heuermann's home and office. Hours later, Melissa's own phone traced that path in reverse. Melissa was 24. She'd earned her cosmetology license in Buffalo and moved to New York to build something. The salon work was slow. She ended up in a Bronx basement apartment working escort ads on Craigslist. On July 12, 2009, she told a friend she was going to meet a man. Nobody heard from her again. Prosecutors allege Heuermann searched online for images of the victims' families after the killings — their sisters, their children. The family Heuermann went home to is now caught in the wreckage. Asa Ellerup sat in the back of the courtroom as her ex-husband admitted to eight killings. The woman who once called him her hero walked out into a…
People in this episode
Host: True Crime Today
Topics covered
- Gilgo Beach Murders
- Rex Heuermann
- Melissa Barthelemy
- family impact
- victim's stories
- true crime
Keywords
- Gilgo Beach
- Rex Heuermann
- Melissa Barthelemy
- victims
- true crime
- disappearance
- family
- courtroom
- investigation
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Craigslist
Places: Massapequa Park, Midtown Manhattan, Bronx
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- Heuermann Engineered His Plea — Now the Victims' Families Are Coming for His Family
- Heuermann Admitted to Eight Killings — The Full Story
- Asa Ellerup Faces a Jury — What Happens Next
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