Alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann is reportedly expected to be charged with the murders of two other women.
Multiple law enforcement sources told CNN that the 60-year-old man will face murder charges in connection with the deaths of Jessica Taylor and Valerie Mack on Thursday.
The headless and handsless body of 20-year-old Taylor was discovered in the woods of Manorville, New York, in 2000.
In 2011, the rest of his remains were discovered more than 40 miles away, near Gilgo Beach on Long Island.
Mack had disappeared near Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 2000 at the age of 24 and was also found dead in Manorville, with parts of her later discovered in Gilgo Beach.
Heuermann, who has pleaded not guilty to the death of four womenHe will appear Thursday in state court in Riverhead.
Heuermann, who has pleaded not guilty to the deaths of four women, will appear Thursday in state court in Riverhead.
Multiple law enforcement sources told CNN that the 60-year-old man will face murder charges in connection with the deaths of Jessica Taylor, left, and Valerie Mack, right, on Thursday.
In April this year, detectives were seen scouring the woods near where body parts of the pair were found.
Search teams with K9s were seen sweeping the wooded area of Manorville for three days.
Last month, detectives also searched the suspected serial killer’s home on Long Island again.
Officers had recovered a cache of weapons during an initial search following his arrest last summer.
Heuermann was arrested in July and initially charged with killing Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, and Amber Lynn Costello, 27.
In February, he was also charged with the murder of 25-year-old Maureen Brainard-Barnes.
The women were found wrapped in burlap and buried along the remote stretch of Ocean Parkway on Long Island’s south shore more than a decade ago.
Heuermann, an architect, has pleaded not guilty to all charges and currently remains in prison awaiting trial. A trial date has not yet been set.
The Gilgo women’s remains were discovered during the search for Shannan Gilbert, 23, a New Jersey escort who had disappeared in May 2010 after making a frantic 911 call.
In April, officials searched an area of Manorville where Taylor and Mack’s partial remains were found more than 20 years ago.
The first victim, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, was discovered by Suffolk County police on December 11, 2010. The body of Megan Waterman, 22, of Maine, was found two days later.
Heuermann is also accused of killing Amber Costello (left) and Maureen Brainard-Barnes (right).
His remains were found on the same stretch of coast in December 2011, and it was his body that led police to the discovery of the ‘Gilgo Four’.
No one has ever been charged with Gilbert’s death and police said it may have been accidental, but her family believes she was murdered.
The women were among 11 found on the desolate stretch of coast near Heuermann’s Long Island home between 2010 and 2011.
All of the victims worked as escorts who advertised on Craigslist.
Heuermann was linked to the murders by DNA on the burlap used to transport the body, which was matched to samples taken from a pizza dough and a napkin that were discarded outside his Manhattan architecture studio, police said.
The samples showed a 99.96 percent match, according to law enforcement officials.
Police said they were alerted to Heuermann as a possible suspect after a witness linked Heuermann’s Chevrolet Avalanche to Costello’s murder.
The women known as the ‘Gilgo Four’ were discovered near Heuermann’s home on Long Island. However, other bodies have been found in the area, including those of sex workers.
The car was then linked to Heuermann’s cell phone records, which allegedly linked him to locations related to the murders.
The indictment alleged that Heuermann had used different disposable phones to contact each of his victims.
Cops also accused Heuermann of using Barthelemy’s phone to make taunting phone calls to his family from the comfort of his office.
Her sister Melissa told how she was bombarded with threatening phone calls from the killer who boasted about the murder and monitored her movements.
Vess Mitev, a lawyer for Heuermann’s two adult children, said the family was following developments closely.
“The hearing is another milestone in this macabre saga, in which they remain unfortunate spectators,” he said.
