Shannan Gilbert 911 Call [Cleaned]
Shannan Gilbert called 911 in 2010, but for years no one has heard 911 call. The reason we were given for years by investigators was: “It could harm the investigation.” It could have, but not after a decade. It took a judge order to get 911 call released on May 13, 2022, after 12 years. Shannan Gilbert said: “They are after me. There’s somebody after me.” She didn’t know where she was. “I am inside a house. Can you trace where I am? Somebody’s after me. Please. I am in Long Island.”
Joseph Brewer: “Yeah, he wants to talk to you, the guy wants to talk to you.”
Shannan Gilbert: “No.”
Joseph Brewer: “Go ahead, talk to her.”
Shannan Gilbert: “No.”
Joseph Brewer: *Inaudible*
Shannan Gilbert: “No. No. Stop! No!
Joseph Brewer: *Inaudible*
Shannan Gilbert: “Alright.”
Michael Pak: *Inaudible*
Shannan Gilbert: “Why are you calling me by my name?”
Michael Pak: *Inaudible*
Shannan Gilbert: “Why? Stop!”
Joseph Brewer: *Inaudible*
Shannan Gilbert: “Stop it, please!”
Michael Pak: “You ok?”
Shannan Gilbert: “Please, stop!”
Joseph Brewer: “Alright.” *Inaudible*
Shannan Gilbert: “Please, can you shut the door?”
Joseph Brewer: “No, time to go.”
Shannan Gilbert: “Please!”
Joseph Brewer: *Inaudible* “Come on, let’s go. We’ll all go outside. All of us. Come on, all of us. Come on, we’re all going outside. Come on.”
Shannan Gilbert: “No, please.”
Joseph Brewer: *Inaudible* Come on. Please, come on!”
Shannan Gilbert: “Why?”
Joseph Brewer: “Just come out here. I’ll go upstairs. I’ll go upstairs, you leave. Hey, look, I am going upstairs, you leave. I am going upstairs, ok? You leave, please. Take care.”
Michael Pak: “Take care.” *Inaudible* What’s the matter, are you ok?”
Shannan Gilbert: “What are you going to do? What are you going to do to me?”
Michael Pak: *Inaudible*
Shannan Gilbert: “Why? *Inaudible* you going to kill me?”
Michael Pak: “Are you crazy?”
Shannan Gilbert: “You going to kill me?”
Michael Pak: “No!”
Shannan Gilbert: “Why are you going to kill me?”
Michael Pak: “Come on, you’re freaking me out! Come on, let’s go!”
Shannan Gilbert: “Out in the middle of nowhere?”
Michael Pak: “Let’s go back. Let’s go back to Manhattan, alright? We’re in Long Island. We’re near the water so, the ocean.”
Shannan Gilbert: “Please, stop.”
Michael Pak: “Come on, it’s me, Mike! Come on, let’s go!”
Shannan Gilbert: “No, stop it. Please!”
The attorney who represents Shannan Gilbert’s family, John Ray: “She is in the house of Joseph Brewer. Her driver, Michael Pak appears to come in to the house, or he was already there. There were other people there, in the house or outside the house. It’s not clear. But Shannan certainly believes they are in both places. That’s the underlying key for the first part of the call. It is out of character for prostitute to call 911 and desperately looks for help. ‘Somebody’s after me.’ That somebody couldn’t be Joseph Brewer because he is with her. She doesn’t identify him as culprit who is chasing her. She is worried about somebody who is outside and you can hear that in the following part of the tape. It’s the 4:53 a.m. at the time when the phone call was made. 911 had a perfect sense. She asked people there to identify her, so they could find her. Then you hear the bloodcurdling screams. Michael Pak is an escort driver. He takes the place of old-fashioned pimp. He drives her in SUV from Manhattan. This was a prearrange meeting. Something else was arranged. Certainly, Brewer was involved in it. Good sum of money was involved to travel so long. This trip lasted for 2,3 hours. According to Brewer and Pak, she agreed to do extra time there. Well, not likely. Brewer is the guy who allegedly hires her and when she got there, she and Brewer were driving in Brewer’s car. We don’t know exactly where. The more detail we do not know and police haven’t discovered. There are security cameras, at least two were there. The cameras were in the charge of Dr. Peter Hackett. He caused a tape to be erased. There are several community members directly involved in this case. The police did a very light touch investigate.”
There is some laughter in the background. She said that they want to kill her.
Michael Pak: *Inaudible*
Shannan Gilbert: “Please. Please, get me out of here, Mike.”
Michael Pak: *Inaudible*
Shannan Gilbert: “You’re being sarcastic.”
Michael Pak: “About what?”
Shannan Gilbert: “About this… You are a part of this all along.”
Michael Pak: “I just met him, just now… *Inaudible*
Background noise, like running. She was running, knocking on doors.
Shannan Gilbert is screaming.
The elderly neighbor called 911, as did another neighbor who told police she was afraid to let Gilbert into her home: “Some woman is knocking at my door, she says she’s in danger. I’m not letting her in.” Shannon’s driver dropped her off at her client’s house at 2 a.m. Nearly three hours later, Shannon made a panic 23-minute call to 911. Still on the phone, she fled the client’s home and ran to a neighbor’s door and then another’s, begging for help. Shannan Gilbert, a 23-year-old woman, vanished on May 1, 2010.
She was a talented young woman from a troubled family, dreaming of a singing and acting career. At the age of 16 she graduated from high school, she skipped a grade. She had a lot of potential.
Former Chief of detectives, Dominic Verone said that the police questioned her client and dismissed him as a suspect.
A month after her disappearance, the Suffolk County Police Department’s missing persons bureau asked Officer John Mallia to search for Gilbert with his trained cadaver dog, a German Shepherd named Blue. Over the course of summer 2010, Mallia unsuccessfully searched the gated beach community where Gilbert had last been seen.
Mallia made a new attempt at a search on December 11, 2010, staying close to the shoulder of the parkway. The officer based his choice of search area on FBI data indicating that dumped bodies are frequently found close to roadways. Despite thick vegetation and a light layer of snow, Mallia’s cadaver dog alerted to a scent which the pair tracked to a skeleton wrapped in disintegrating burlap. The bodies of the four victims – Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello – were found approximately 500 feet (150 m) from each other. They were named the Gilgo 4.
Melissa Barthelemy was missing for a year and a half and her remains were first to be discovered on December 11, 2010. Melissa moved from her home to New York City to work as a hairdresser. At some point she turned to prostitution. She stopped calling home in July of 2009. Her mother panicked. She called hospitals in a desperate attempt to find her. On July 10, 2009, she was missing. A week later, her then 15-year-old sister, got a call from Melissa’s phone. She was so excited: “Oh my God! Melissa’s finally calling me!”, and then there’s a man on the other end. Suffolk County Police told that they believed the caller was in fact Melissa’s killer. He called seven times, threatening her younger sister and torturing her with details of Melissa’s murder.
The remains of Maureen Brainard-Barnes who was missing for more than 3 years. She disappeared one summer night in 2007. Her sister believed Maureen, a 25-year-old woman, had gone to Manhattan for a modeling shoot. She faced obstacles as a single mother of two with no driver’s license nor college degree. She applied for many jobs. She had got a job at a telemarketing place and she was doing really well. At least her sister thought that. When Maureen went missing in 2007, her sister logged into Maureen’s email accounts. In the days before Maureen disappeared, she was under enormous financial pressure. Maureen was about to be evicted from her apartment and was facing an expensive Court battle for custody of one of her young children. Maureen’s emails revealed another secret, she was a sex worker. It wasn’t modeling that brought her to New York. She was advertising on Craigslist. She was banned from Craigslist and she couldn’t post ads for clients. She had regular clients and she could meet only a regular client. It was someone she had seen before.
Megan Waterman, a 22-year-old, had a young daughter and she would never leave her. When she didn’t come back home, her family knew something happened to Megan. She had a boyfriend who was violent and was taking her to Long Island where he pushed her into prostitution. On June 6, 2010, Megan was seen exiting the hotel at 1:30 a.m. She vanished. In December 2010, detectives found Megan Waterman’s remains.
The last of the Gilgo 4 to disappear was Amber Costello, a 27-year-old sex worker, who vanished from her home on Long Island on September 2, 2010. She was a drug addict who used sex work to support her habit.
All victims were asphyxiated. There were other striking similarities. They were all very petite (five foot or under), a hundred pounds, hazel, green eyes.
In March 2011, partial remains of Jessica Taylor were found along Ocean Parkway. She was an escort missing since 2003. Eight years earlier, in 2003, other parts of Taylor’s remains had been found in Manorville, a town in Suffolk County. The next month, in April 2011, police discovered three additional sets of remains: an unidentified set of remains named Jane Doe no 6, an unidentified Asian man, an unidentified toddler girl. Two more bodies were found in Nassau County – later identified as Karen Vergata, whose partial remains had previously been found on Fire Island in 1996, and an unidentified woman with a distinctive tattoo of peaches, who was later found to be the mother of the unidentified toddler found in Suffolk County, named Jane Doe no 3.
On November 29, 2011 police announced that they believed one person to be responsible for all ten murders and that the perpetrator is almost certainly from Long Island. The single killer theory stems from common characteristics between the condition of the remains and forensic evidence related to the bodies. In June 2011, Suffolk County police announced a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the Long Island murders.
Shannan Gilbert’s remains were located in Oak Beach in December 2011, 19 months after her disappearance. Her shoes, purse, cell phone and even her jeans were found. A week later a quarter of a mile from her belongings and they finally found her remains. The cause of her death is contested. The police said it was a drug overdose and she drowned. They couldn’t do toxicology, because she was skeletonized. Her family’s attorney, John Ray: “She was put there.” He decided to retrace the path authorities believe Shannan travelled and said it was impossible. Ray commissioned a second autopsy.
Independent pathologist: “Almost all of the skeleton bones were recovered and appeared normal. There was no evidence of trauma. However, the larynx was missing and only the body of the hyoid bone was found: the two greater horns of that neck bone were missing. The structures, the larynx and the hyoid bone, are often fractured during homicidal manual strangulation. My examination of the recovered body of the hyoid bone, after it had been anthropologically defleshed, showed a roughness at the margins where the separated horns had been attached. It is my opinion based on the circumstances of Shannan’s death and on the materials that I have reviewed, that there is no evidence that she died of a natural disease, of a drug overdose or of drowning. There is insufficient information to determine a definite cause of death, but the autopsy findings are consistent with homicidal strangulation.”
Attorney Ray turned his attention to a local physician Dr. Peter Hackett. Shannon had last been seen in the area near his home and her belongings were found scattered in the marsh behind his house. Two days after Shannon disappeared, Hackett made a disturbing phone call to Shannon’s late mother, Mary Gilbert. Ray: “He identified himself, told Mary that he was running a home for Wayward girls and that Shannon wanted to enter the home.” A New Jersey detective said that Hackett told him the same story. But when Mary Gilbert went out to talk to him Dr. Hackett denied it: “I never saw he, I never met her.”
Ray believes the doctor did encounter Shannon early that morning and gave her improper medical treatment. Ray filed a civil suit against Peter Hackett in 2012 for wrongful death and malpractice. The wrongful death claim has been dismissed, malpractice claims are still pending. Dr. Hackett: “I never treated her. She was never in my home.” He said that he only had called Shannon’s family to offer support. Police didn’t investigate him. In 2015, attorney John Ray helped Gilbert’s family to bury Shannan.
Chief of detectives Dominic Verone suddenly found himself out of a job. A new regime led by James Burke took over the department. Burke was named the new Suffolk County Police Chief. He was extremely powerful for police chief. Burke had an unlikely rise of the ranks, in part because he had a powerful backer, Suffolk County district attorney, Thomas Spota.
Burke and Spota met in 1979 when the brutal murder of a boy found behind the school, rocked the peaceful suburb of Smithtown, Long Island. There was a lot of pressure to solve the case. Thomas Spota was the young, ambitious prosecutor. His specialty was getting the witness who said exactly what the case needed in order to clinch it. James Burke was just 14 at the time. Everybody called him Jimmy back then. Burke and others testified against four teenage boys. Thomas Spota by then had taken a shine to the kid and had taken him under his wing to some extent.
The ambitious young Spota later became District Attorney of Suffolk County. James Burke became a cop, and by age 27 was already a Sergeant in the police department. Burke’s background set him apart from most other cops. Most of them have a college degree or they were in the military. James Burke had none of that. In the early 1990s he had sex with a prostitute in his police car, and also failed to safeguard his weapon. Internal Affairs investigated the incident but Burke kept his job, although it would end most cops’ careers, but he was promoted. He became police chief.
Burke blocked cooperation with FBI on the serial killer case.
In December 2012, a petty thief, Christopher Loeb, robbed SUV, James Burke’s police truck. He stole Burke’s duffel bag contained his gun belt, porn and sex toys. Loeb was arrested locked into a room and chained to the floor, according to court testimony, detectives began to beat him, before Burke himself took over. He started slapping Christopher Loeb, choking him, grabbing him by his ears, yelling at him, threatening him that he was going to give him a hot shot, which is a laced heroin injection, which would be fatal.
When the FBI investigated, Burke with the help of his mentor, District Attorney Thomas Spota, began a cover-up other investigations, including the serial killer case. Spota was eventually convicted of obstruction of justice, witness tampering and conspiracy in the Christopher Loeb case and sentenced to 5 years in prison.
In February 2016, James Burke pleaded guilty to violating Loeb’s civil rights and conspiracy to obstruct justice. He was sentenced to 46 months in Federal prison.
Graffiti appeared, accusing the former Chief of being the serial killer. People didn’t believe police anymore. They had a good reason.
In 2014, Geraldine Hart, a career FBI agent, was assigned to the Long Island Bureau, when the agency was cut out from the serial killer investigation. In 2018, Hart became the Suffolk County Police Commissioner.
Valerie Mack, partial remains of whom – like those of Jessica Taylor – had been found in Manorville years earlier in November 2000. In 2020: “Today we are announcing that Jane Doe number six has been positively identified as Valerie Mack. Valerie Mack who was 24 years old in 2000, when she went missing, was described as five feet tall and approximately 100 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes.” Using new genetic genealogy tools investigators were finally able to identify one of the victims found on Ocean Parkway.
The department also released images of evidence – a black leather belt embossed with the letters HM or WH was recovered during the initial stages of this investigation. Belt belonged to a large male.
Hart said that they are also investigating Shannan Gilbert’s death, but the attorney John Ray denied that.
11 years later, in January of 2022 the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office created a task force to conduct a comprehensive review of evidence in the investigation.
New administration worked with FBI to catch the perpetrator/s.
Rex Heuermann, a tall heavy set man, with bushy brown hair, walked outside of his midtown Manhattan architectural office, holding an empty pizza box in his hand. Rex Heuermann of Massapequa Park on Long Island, New York was being closely monitored by a police surveillance team. Once police recover the discarded pizza box, DNA retrieve from inside would lead to the arrest of a man that authorities now believe to be responsible for the brutal torture and murder of at least six young women and possibly more. Shannan Gilbert disappearance led to the discovery that a serial killer had been hunting sex workers, but police believe she had no connection to the man who had become known as the Gilgo Beach killer.
Back in November 20th of 1993 two hunters in a wooded area of Southampton discovered the remains of Sandra Castilla, a 28-year-old woman. She was lying on her back with her arms outstretched over her head and her uncovered legs were spread apart. Her shirt had been pulled up over her head. She had numerous stab wounds to her face, torso, breasts, legs and vaginal area. Castillo was a native of Trinidad and Tobago, living in New York at the time.
10 years later, on July 21, 2003, Jessica Taylor goes missing. Taylor was known as a sex worker in Midtown Manhattan. This was during the time that Rex Heuermann worked in the same vicinity as Jessica was known to work. In fact, Rex Heuermann can be traced to be in Manhattan, the very same day, she was last heard from. A witness described a dark colored Chevy pickup being in the vicinity where Taylor’s remains were eventually discovered. A few days later on July 26, 2003, an individual walking their dog in Manorville on Long Island discovered the partial remains of Jessica Taylor. She was lying on her back with her legs bent underneath her. She has been decapitated, with both arms severed from her body, below the elbows. A tattoo on her torso has been severely obliterated with a sharp object. Her remains would not be identified until 2011, when her skull and arms were eventually discovered.
Melissa Barthelemy was also contacted by a burner phone. The last day she was seen alive, the burner phone was tracked from Massapequa Park on Long Island, New York, to Midtown Manhattan on the day of her disappearance. A burner phone is where an individual is able to purchase a phone, sometimes using cash, likely not using their correct name and it already has minutes on it. It basically makes the phone untraceable to the individual who’s using the phone, yet the number is still able to be traced and the location of the phone is often times able to be traced moving. Her younger sister received several phone calls from her cell phone, while the phone was located in Midtown Manhattan. The male caller taunted her, admitting to killing and sexually assaulting Melissa. Allegedly, he told her sister: “Do you think you’ll ever see her again? You won’t, I killed her,” and “Do you want to be a whore like your sister?”
Maureen Brainard-Barnes, was contacted by a burner phone shortly before her disappearance.
Megan Waterman was contacted by a burner phone the day of her disappearance. Megan’s phone was last tracked from the hotel to Massapequa Park on Long Island, New York.
Amber Costello, the last of the Gilgo 4 to disappear, was last seen leaving her residence late at night to meet a client. The day prior to her disappearance, a client came to Amber’s home. He was described as a large white male, ‘ogre’, mid-40s with dark bushy hair. A description consistent with Rex Heuermann. During the visit Amber performed a ruse on the man, whereby a person pretending to be an outraged boyfriend entered her home and the client left the residence. Amber kept his money. At that time a witness noticed a Chevrolet Avalanche parked in Amber’s driveway. This one piece of evidence would later become the biggest break in the case. The next day the same client texted Amber from a burner phone, asking to meet again. The burner phone was traced traveling to Amber’s residence.
On December 11, 2010, the officer was conducting a training exercise and also a search with along Gilgo Beach. He discovered the skeletonized remains of Maureen Brainard-Barnes. She was wrapped in burlap, in thick brush. This discovery started a much larger search. Other victims were discovered.
They were all missing clothing and personal possessions. They were all bound in a similar fashion with either belt or tape. Three were wrapped in burlap like material.
On March 29, 2011, Jessica Taylor’s skull hands and forearm were discovered, just east of Gilgo Beach. 8 years after the discovery of her decapitated body. The same side of the road where Brainard-Barnes, Barthelemy, Waterman and Costello’s remains were discovered.
On March 14, 2022, Rex Heuermann became a suspect for the very first time in the investigation.
Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old, Nassau County resident. He lived much of his life in Massapequa Park on Long Island, New York in his family house. He is married and has a daughter and a stepson. His wife suffers from cancer. High school classmate described him as quiet, kept to himself and extremely intelligent.
He worked in Manhattan as an architect since 1987 and ran a company, called RH Consultants and Associates, boasting clients that included Target Foot Locker, Catholic Charities and American Airlines. Standing at 6’4 in and weighing 240 pounds, Rex Heuermann was described as imposing and very strong. Neighbors described him as a regular guy who goes to work, has kids in local school and was always well-dressed. One thing that did stand out was the disrepair of his home. His house stood out in the neighborhood for having overgrown shrubs and debris. One neighbor said it was weird and that he wasn’t surprised that Rex was a serial killer, that he looked like a businessman but his house was a dump.
On March 14, 2022, 12 years after the disappearance of Amber Costello, the task force discovered that Rex Heuermann owned a first generation Chevrolet Avalanche during the time of Amber’s disappearance. Rex Heuermann also matched the description of the client that was last believed to be with Amber before she was murdered. This discovery led to a comprehensive investigation of Rex Heuermann, which consisted of over 300 subpoenas search warrants and other investigative tools, used to obtain evidence, eventually linking Heuermann to the murders. This evidence included, amongst other things, cell phone billing and cell site locations, burner phones that he used to arrange meetings and make taunting phone calls. Heuermann lived in Massapequa Park where the victims were believed to have disappeared from. And Heuermann worked in Midtown Manhattan where the taunting calls were made from.
On July 14, 2023, a grand jury indicts Heuermann for the murders of Barthelemy, Waterman and Costello. By January 16, 2024, Heuermann is charged with the murder of Brainard-Barnes. On June 6, 2024, Heuermann is charged with the murders of Taylor and Castilla.
There were female hairs recovered at several of the crime scenes. Maureen Brainard-Barnes was left restrained by three leather belts and a female hair was recovered from a buckle of one of those belts. Megan Waterman had been restrained with clear tape. Two female hairs recovered from that tape. Amber Costello was also bound by clear tape. A female hair was also recovered from that tape. In July of 2022 undercover detectives recovered trash from the receptacle outside of Heuermann’s home.
By February – March of 2023 a laboratory determined that the hairs the female hairs recovered from the victims, could be matched to Heuermann’s wife.
Male hairs were also recovered. Megan Waterman had also been wrapped in burlap. A single male hair was recovered from the bottom of that burlap. During the examination of Jessica Taylor’s body, a single male hair was recovered from a surgical drape that had been underneath her body. A single male hair was also recovered from the shirt above Sandra Castilla’s head. In January of 2023 a surveillance team observed Heuermann discard a pizza box into a garbage can outside of his Manhattan office. By June of 2023, swabs taken from that pizza box were matched to the male hair recovered from Waterman.
A year later, in March of 2024, after Heuermann has been arrested for the murders of Barthelemy, Waterman and Costello, a buckle swab (this is where police swab the inside of a person’s cheek) of Rex Heuermann was determined to be a significant match to the hairs recovered from Taylor’s body and Castilla’s shirt.
Rex Heuermann’ wife was determined to be out of the state of New York during the disappearance of Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Costello, Megan Waterman and Jessica Taylor. No one was living with Rex Heuermann during the time of Sandra Castilla’s disappearance.
Billing record showed numerous instances where Heuermann’s personal phone was in the same general location as the burner phones used to contact Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello. Investigators could find no instance where Heuermann’s was in a separate location from the burner phones, or when the victim’s phones were used after their suspected murders.
Investigators also located a number of online accounts under fictitious names that were linked to Heuermann for use in illicit activities. Prostitution is not legal in the USA. Burner phones and phony email accounts were used for prostitution related contacts. These phones also had frequent contact with cell sites in Massapequa Park and Midtown Manhattan.
Google search history also revealed thousands of searches related to sex workers and torture related pornography, including children. He was interested in torture in every way. Search history also included over 200 searches for known serial killers and the specific disappearances of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Megan Waterman, Amber Costello and Melissa Barthelemy.
The factitious email accounts also contained selfie photographs of Rex Heuermann and when he was arrested the burner phone linked to the fictitious email account was found on his person.
There’s also been newly discovered digital evidence. Following Heuermann arrest, numerous search warrants were conducted on his residence which culminated in over 350 electronic devices being recovered. An analysis of these devices revealed that Heuermann had a significant collection of violent bondage and torture pornography, dating back to 1994, including mutilation, bondage and other graphic images which largely coincide to the condition in which many of the victims were discovered. Moreover, during the analysis of a hard drive recovered from Heuermann basement, a document entitled HK2002-04 was discovered in the unallocated space on the hard drive. When a user deletes data, many users believe that the file has been purged forever. However, deleting a file only tells the computer that the space previously occupied by that file is now available. The deleted data will remain in ‘unallocated space’, until another file is written over it. Data contained, within an allocated space, can be retrieved via a computer forensic extraction method, called ‘file carving’. The HK2002-04 document is believed to be a planning document utilized by Heuermann to methodically blueprint and plan out his kills. The document contains four categories. The first “Problems” appears to be a guide on how to avoid apprehension. The second titled “Supplies” which is clearly supplies needed to carry out his serial murders. The third simply “DS” is believed to be dumpsite. Research and the last “TRG” or Target appears to be about the victims he was looking to hunt. The document also contains three other categories. The first called “Pre-pep” appears to be a guide on steps to take an advance of a murder, including things such as inspecting his vehicle, engaging the target conducting “Recon”, checking for surveillance cameras and even checking the weather. The second in this section “Prep” are steps taken closer in time to the murder setting up “staging area, a holding area and building”, even a table. The third entitled “Post-event” appears to be a checklist of tasks, following a murder to avoid apprehension. Things like ‘destroy files’, ‘change tires’, ‘burn gloves’, ‘dispose of pics’ and ‘have a story set’. Further on in the document, includes categories such as “recon reports”, ‘take down – pick up’ which includes things such as ‘remember, don’t charge gas’. A section “Body prep” has such reminders as ‘wash body’, ‘remove trace DNA’, ‘remove ID marks such as tattoos’, ‘remove head and hands’, ‘package for transport’. Another section ‘Dispose of following: tools and devices, clothes and personal items, props, toys, wood items, what you wore, destroy book and computer files’. There’s a section entitled “Things to remember”, saying ‘get sleep before hunt, too tired creates problems. ‘Hit harder, hit to the face or next time for takedown’, ‘use heavy rope for neck, light rope broke under stress of being tightened’. Finally, there’s a notes section which has specific page references to a book entitled “Mind hunter” by John Douglas concerning the criminal profiling of serial killers.
Rex Heuermann had a cache of more than 200 guns in a vault inside his home, the Suffolk County, New York, police commissioner said.
Valerie Mack, a 24-year-old woman, was living in Philadelphia and working as an escort when she went missing in 2000. She was wrapped in garbage bags and mutilated. Her head and hands had been removed.
Another woman described as the Fire Island Jane Doe was later identified as Karen Vergata, a 34-year-old, from Manhattan, who was believed to be working as a sex worker when she vanished in 1996. Her severed legs were found in a garbage bag on Fire Island in 1996. 15 years later her skull was discovered in Oak Beach.
There are also unidentified remains. In 1997 the dismembered torso of an unidentified woman was found on Hempstead Lake State Park. The victim reportedly had a tattoo on her left breast of a heart-shaped peach. The skeletal remains of a female child, aged between 16 and 24 months, was discovered in 2011. DNA testing has since confirmed that a woman with tattoo ‘peaches’ is the mother of the unidentified baby. The body of an unidentified young Asian male was discovered in April of 2011 at Gilgo Beach. The victim had been found dressed in women’s clothing. He was determined to have been killed by blunt force trauma. Rex Heuermann has not been charged with these murders, but investigation is ongoing.
No trial date has been set for Rex Heuermann.
Attorney John Ray is still pursuing justice for Shannan Gilbert.
