Rex: The Gilgo Beach Architect | The Rex Heuermann Investigation

It took 13 years, a police corruption scandal, a new DA, cutting edge DNA technology, and a discarded pizza box to catch one man who killed eight women. The investigation only started because someone was searching for a woman who may not even have been his victim. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep25 . About the Neural Broadca...

Tanya Jackson, 26, and her 2 year old daughter Tatiana Dykes. An unidentified Asian male dressed in women's clothing. John Bittrolff, convicted of two murders in the same county during the same years. Were multiple serial killers using the same stretch of road? All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep24 . About the Neural Broad...

Two days before the guilty plea, Valerie Mack's son files a wrongful death lawsuit against Heuermann, his ex wife, and his daughter. At the center: a $1 million Peacock documentary deal. A victim's child suing a killer's family over who profits from eight murders. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep23 . About the...

Suffolk County Court. A 62 year old man in a black suit coat says guilty seven times. His tone becomes casual, almost flat. Then he admits to an eighth murder he was never charged with. His defense attorney calls it a sense of relief. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep22 . About the Neural Broadcast Network NBN is a technology...

July 2023: three counts of murder. January 2024: a fourth. June 2024: two more and the planning document is revealed. December 2024: a seventh. Each charge required its own forensic evidence package built over 33 months. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep21 . About the Neural Broadcast Network NBN is a technology-first media c...

July 13, 2023. A 59 year old architect is taken into custody in Midtown Manhattan. The 12 day search of his childhood home yields nearly 300 guns, hundreds of electronic devices, and a basement vault. His wife files for divorce within days. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep20 . About the Neural Broadcast Network NBN is a tech...

Four burner phones. Over 500 contacts with sex workers in two years. Fake email accounts used to monitor news coverage of his own case. And then he bought one of those burner phones with his personal credit card. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep19 . About the Neural Broadcast Network NBN is a technology-first media company e...

Rex Heuermann tosses a pizza box into a Manhattan trash can. Investigators recover it. The DNA on the crust matches hair found on burlap used to wrap one of the victims. One careless moment after 30 years of meticulous planning. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep18 . About the Neural Broadcast Network NBN is a technology-first...

Ray Tierney takes office as Suffolk County DA in January 2022 and makes Gilgo Beach his first priority. He assembles an inter agency task force with full FBI cooperation. Sixteen months later, Rex Heuermann is in handcuffs. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep17 . About the Neural Broadcast Network NBN is a technology-first medi...

Mari Gilbert forced the search that found the Gilgo Beach bodies. She called police, called the press, and stood on Ocean Parkway with signs until they looked. On July 23, 2016, her daughter Sarra stabbed her 227 times. She never lived to see the arrest. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep16 . About the Neural Broadcast Network...

Three Suffolk County officials went to federal prison for conspiracy and obstruction. The DA, the police chief, and the head of anti corruption covered up an assault and blocked the FBI from a serial murder investigation for over a decade. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep15 . About the Neural Broadcast Network NBN is a techn...

James Burke was the highest ranking police official in Suffolk County. He blocked the FBI from the Gilgo Beach investigation, denied subpoenas for cell tower records, then beat a handcuffed man inside a precinct and enlisted the DA to cover it up. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep14 . About the Neural Broadcast Network NBN is...

Joel Rifkin killed 17 sex workers in New York. Not one was reported missing. When the Gilgo Beach remains surfaced, the chief of detectives told the press the killer does not pose a threat to the community. His reasoning: the victims were sex workers. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep13 . About the Neural Broadcast Network NB...

A K-9 unit searching for Shannan Gilbert finds remains wrapped in burlap on December 11, 2010. Two days later, three more within a quarter mile. By spring 2011, ten sets of remains along one stretch of highway. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep12 . About the Neural Broadcast Network NBN is a technology-first media company eng...

A Microsoft Word file labeled HK2002-04, created in 2000 and deleted from the hard drive. Forensically recovered from unallocated space on Heuermann's laptop. Inside: four categories. Problems. Supplies. Dump Sites. Targets. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep11 . About the Neural Broadcast Network NBN is a technology-firs...

Rex Heuermann killed eight women over 17 years. He strangled them in his childhood home at 105 First Avenue in Massapequa Park while his wife and kids were out of town, wrapped their bodies in burlap, and dumped them along a desolate stretch of Ocean Parkway on Long Island's South Shore. Then he went back to designing buildings for American Airlines, Target, and Nike. Nobody came looking for...

A 62-year-old architect from Massapequa Park who commuted to Manhattan, raised a family, and built a client list that included Nike and American Airlines. Inside his childhood home: nearly 300 guns, a basement vault, and a planning document for serial murder. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep1 . About the Neural Broadcast Net...

A 15-mile barrier island highway built in the 1930s became a serial killer's dumping ground. Dense brush, no cameras, no streetlights, and fewer than 250 year round residents made Ocean Parkway the place where bodies could sit 20 feet from the road for years. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep2 . About the Neural Broadcas...

Sandra Costilla was 28, from Trinidad and Tobago, and the mother of a 5 year old son when she was strangled in November 1993. She is the earliest known victim, killed three decades before DNA connected her to the architect from Massapequa Park. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep3 . About the Neural Broadcast Network NBN is a t...

For 27 years she was known only as Fire Island Jane Doe. Karen Vergata was 34, from Hell's Kitchen, survived by two sons who were adopted before her death. No missing person report was ever filed. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep4 . About the Neural Broadcast Network NBN is a technology-first media company engineering g...

Both women were dismembered. Both had remains found in two locations: inland Manorville and coastal Gilgo Beach. The geographic shift reveals a killer who recalibrated his methods after a hunter's dog disrupted his first disposal ground. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep5 . About the Neural Broadcast Network NBN is a tec...

After Melissa Barthelemy disappeared, her 15 year old sister began receiving phone calls from a man using Melissa's cellphone. He taunted the family and said he was watching the body rot. The calls traced to cell towers 2,372 feet from Heuermann's Manhattan office. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep6 . About the Neur...

Megan Waterman was 22, from Scarborough, Maine, and the mother of a 4 year old daughter she called three times a day. She traveled by bus to New York, checked into a Holiday Inn, and was last seen leaving at 1:30 AM on June 6, 2010. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep7 . About the Neural Broadcast Network NBN is a technology-fi...

Amber Costello's roommate Dave Schaller came face to face with the killer and described him as an ogre driving a green Chevrolet Avalanche. He gave that description to police in 2010. The tip sat in files for 12 years. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep8 . About the Neural Broadcast Network NBN is a technology-first media...

Maureen Brainard Barnes was 25, a single mother of two from Norwich, Connecticut. She was the first of the Gilgo Four to disappear in 2007 but the last to be formally charged to Heuermann in January 2024. All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep9 . About the Neural Broadcast Network NBN is a technology-first media company engineerin...