Big Blow against accused serial killer Rex Heuermann’s defense after judge rules evidence in Gilgo Beach Murders Trial,

A New York judge has decided that critical DNA evidence may be used at the upcoming negotiation of Gilgo Beach, Rex Heuermann’s alleged serial killer.

The Heuermann defense team questioned the evidence because it was preserved with “Whole Genom Sequencing”, a new DNA technology that has never been used before a New York court.

However, the public prosecutor successfully argued in a number of hearings this year that the technology was derived from accepted scientific methods.

“Science was on our side,” said Raymond Terney, District Prosecutor of Suffolk County, after the announcement.

The 61 -year -old Heuermann was released on Wednesday in a courtroom in Riverhead, when Timothy Mazzei the Suffolk County’s Supreme Court decided that prosecutors can use the DNA test method in the event of a suspected murderer.

Heuermann was arrested in July 2023 in front of his office in New York City because an investigative police had been working in the death of at least 10 people since 2010 – mainly female sex workers – whose remains were discovered along a remote highway near Gilgo Strand on Long Island.

He was charged with seven women for murders.

When the prosecutors set up the case against Heuermann, they pointed out a lot of evidence: mobile phone data, search history, eyewitness accounts – and DNA.

The way the DNA was quickly tested became a focus in the closely observed case.

The public prosecutor says that the technology is reliable and helped Heuermann or his family with victims, whose corpses were discovered on the Ocean Parkway in 2010.

The technology carried out by Astrea Forensics in California enabled the investigators to analyze hair without roots, and degraded samples that could not process traditional tests.

Even without the results of Astrea, the prosecutors refer to extensive digital, forensic and observing evidence they say to tie Heuermann to the murders.

When Maureen Brainard Barnes’ 25-year-old from Maureen Brainard Barnes in Gilgo Beach of Long Island was discovered in the winter of 2010, the investigators faced a discouraging challenge.

Despite the dark find, there was hardly any physical evidence to identify her murderer, apart from a single, degraded hairstyle.

At that time, the extraction of the viable DNA was from such a sample outside the skills of forensic science and, in search of other indications, let detectives search for a suspected serial killer, the women’s body along the coastal park.

However, a considerable breakthrough came about about seven years ago. The investigators turned to Astrea Forensics, a laboratory pioneer based in California for new techniques for the analysis of old, high-grade DNA samples, including rootless hair such as the crucial, which was found alongside Brainard-Barnes’ body.

The prosecutors have accumulated other evidence against Heuermann, who is accused of having already killed women in 1993.

In court files, they say that cell phone call information and persecution of data show that Heuermann organized meetings with some of the victims shortly before their disappearance.

Last year, the public prosecutor announced that they had recovered from Heuermann’s computer files that they describe as a “blueprint” for the murders, including a series of checklists with memories, to limit noises to clean the body and destroy evidence.

They also have a second DNA analysis that was carried out by a separate crime laboratory in which more traditional methods have been used that have been accepted in New York Courts for a long time. They say that these findings, withotyping technologies, also associated convincing hair with some victims with Heuermann or members of his family.

The investigators say that when he sparked his victims, heuer from his house – including adhesive tape, belt, bags and a surgical drape – had traces of hair from his wife and daughter.

In Brainard-Barnes’ case, however, only the advanced DNA tests carried out by Astrea identified a match, with it found that the hair found with her remains belonged to Heuermann’s wife.

The Gilgo Beach Morders

Heuermann was first charged with Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Lynn Costello and Megan Waterman, whose bodies were found between 2009 and 2010.

Heuermann was then charged with the death of four other women: Valerie Mack in 2000, Jessica Taylor in 2003, Maureen Brainard-Barnes in 2007 and Sandra Costilla in 1993.

Heuermann’s ex-wife Asa Ellerup, who lived in the Haus der Massapequa Park, which she shared with her children on Long Island, was enough for a divorce shortly after his arrest. An agreement was reached at the beginning of this year.

The prosecutors also say that Heuermann kept a “blueprint” of his alleged crimes on his computer, which contained a number of checklists with tasks before, during and after the murders and practical lessons for “next time”.

Michael Brown, Heuermann’s lawyer, would like to divide the case in several exams about concerns about the “cumulative effect” of the evidence submitted by prosecutors. The prosecutors have reported this application and Mazzeit is expected to decide about it soon.

In “The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets”, ” As a three -part documentary in Peacock, which was released this summer this summer, he defended his innocence and described Heuermann as “her hero”, while her daughter Victoria believes that her father is “most likely “‘s serial killer.

Heuermann has retained his innocence and has not guilty for all charges.

A test date has not yet been determined.