I stay up all night doing research and trying to re-trace her last steps.” “What happened to Amber eats at me every day,” Overstreet said at the time. She wanted them to tell her if they ever encountered a client who was threatening or just didn’t feel right. The ad implored other women who work as escorts to call Overstreet. A witness also said the man resembled an “ogre.” Heuermann’s bail application noted the description from these witnesses in 2010 matched Heuermann.Ĭostello’s sister, Kim Overstreet, told CNN in 2011 that she took out an ad hoping to catch the killer. They described the man as “a large, white male, approximately 6’4” to 6’6” in height” with “big oval style” glasses. Witnesses told investigators that the client she met the day she went missing had been at her home previously. Jeenah Moom/APĭeputy police commissioner describes suspect in Gilgo Beach serial killings case as a 'demon' Investigators believe Barthelemy was the second of the women to be killed.Ĭrime laboratory officers removes boxes as law enforcement searches the home of Rex Heuermann, Saturday, July 15, 2023, in Massapequa Park, New York. She said she jotted down everything she learned about the case in a notebook and spoke regularly with families of other victims. “I still don’t sleep through the night thinking about all of it,” Lynn Barthelemy, the victim’s mother, told CNN in 2011. At the time, authorities were searching for another missing woman, Shannan Gilbert, a 23-year-old from Jersey City, New Jersey, who hadn’t been seen since May 2010. 'The day has finally come': Years in the making, evidence leads investigators to Rex Heuermannīarthelemy’s remains were the first set of female remains found in bushes along an isolated strip of waterfront property. This booking image provided by Suffolk County Sheriff's Office, shows Rex Heuermann, a Long Island architect who was charged Friday, July 14, 2023, with murder in the deaths of three of the 11 victims in a long-unsolved string of killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders. Here’s what we know about the deaths of those four women: Heuermann was first identified as a potential suspect in early 2022, shortly after a multi-agency task force was formed to examine cold cases involving nearly a dozen sets of human remains found along Long Island’s South Shore between 20, including the Gilgo Four. The 59-year-old New York architect is also the prime suspect in the disappearance and killing of a fourth woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, whose remains were found near the same spot. He has pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail. She's now filed for divorceĪ married father accused by authorities of leading a double life, Heuermann faces three counts of first-degree murder for the killings of Melissa Barthelemy in 2009, and Megan Waterman and Amber Costello the following year, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney. The Gilgo Beach killings suspect's wife unknowingly helped in his arrest. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) John Minchillo/AP Detectives investigating the long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings have continued their searches, recently including a storage facility in the Long Island community of Amityville over the weekend. Authorities search the home of suspect Rex Heuermann, Tuesday, July 18, 2023, in Massapequa Park, N.Y.
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