The lawyer for accused Gilgo Seashore killer Rex Heuermann mentioned Tuesday that there isn’t any DNA proof linking his consumer to the basement “kill room” the place he allegedly butchered as many as seven intercourse employees.
Protection lawyer Michael Brown — who additionally did a 180 on wanting to maneuver the trial out of Suffolk County — mentioned the mounds of DNA proof prosecutors declare to have has not tied Heuermann to the “scrubbed” basement of his Massapequa Park house,
“There’s not one shred of organic or forensic proof that’s in his basement. Not one. Nothing from the sufferer. Nothing from him,” Brown instructed reporters. “So, in essence, you’re telling me that you’ve one hair per particular person, per sufferer. He wasn’t conscientious sufficient or cautious sufficient to guarantee that didn’t occur. However but, the basement is totally scrubbed? It doesn’t make sense.
“My level is, how do you clarify that there’s nothing within the basement and that’s the kill room?” he mentioned. “If that truly transpired and he’s the perpetrator you would need to anticipate that there could be some remnants within the basement.”
Brown spoke following the newest court docket look by the accused serial killer — most of which was spent in a tense closed-door alternate contained in the choose’s chambers.
Heuermann, an architect with workplaces in Manhattan, is charged with killing seven intercourse employees since 1993 and dumping them alongside Ocean Parkway — with the stays discovered between 2010 and 2011.
The murders remained unsolved till Heuermann was arrested in July 2023 and charged with the deaths of three girls — Amber Lynn Costello, Megan Waterman and Melissa Barthelemy.
In January 2024 he was additionally charged with killing Maureen Brainard-Barnes, with the 4 girls collectively often known as the “Gilgo 4” amongst locals.
Suffolk DA Ray Tierney in the end charged Heuermann with three different murders — Valerie Mack, Jessica Taylor and Sandra Costilla, the primary sufferer, who was killed in 1993.
Tierney mentioned prosecutors have DNA samples from hairs discovered on the entire our bodies that hyperlink them to Heuermann, and mentioned he allegedly killed and tortured his victims within the basement whereas retaining a sick document and “classes discovered” file of the brutal slayings on his pc.
Prosecutors haven’t revealed if DNA proof tied to the killings was discovered throughout two searches of his house.
In the meantime, Brown has repeatedly instructed reporters that he would search to maneuver the trial out of Suffolk County, saying the high-profile nature of the case would make it troublesome to seek out an neutral jury in the neighborhood.
On Tuesday, the lawyer did an about-face.
“One of many causes we didn’t file a change of venue movement is as a result of we’re wanting ahead to 12 individuals in Suffolk County, the residents in Suffolk County who’re accustomed to what goes on in Suffolk County,” Brown mentioned.
“We’re wanting ahead to having them sit in that courtroom and hearken to the proof,” he added. “Hearken to the dearth of proof. Hearken to the entire image versus simply snippets that you might have heard.”
