NetflixIt’s new TRUE-CRIME Docuseries, Missing girls: The Long Islandre -cut a series of creepy murderers in New York City Long island from 1993 to 2011. According to News YahooBetween 2010 and 2011, remains belonging to 11 women, most of whom were sex workers, were found in Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach: four victims were found near the others and were discovered in burglary with belts or tapes. For the authorities and the community it was clear that there was a serial killer in the area.
After more than a decade, authorities detained a 61-year-old suspect, Rex Hemann, a New York city architect in Nassau County, accused of murdering seven women: with Costello, Melissa Barthelemy and Megan Waterman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Jessica Taylor, Sandra Costilla and Valerie Mack, Yahoo News.
Continue reading the three parts of the murders, why it took authorities so much to find Heermann and where it is now.
The friends and family of victims say that authorities dismissed their concerns that the victims were sex workers
Yahoo News reported that the docuseries go to viewers for what happened to the victims and how Hemann was finally in prison. Docuseries interview the families and friends of the victims, who shared that they felt that the police and the media ignored their concerns that the victims were sexual workers. It helps to tell their stories and discover how the authorities were negligent when catching the killer.
“Police said that if you are not a sex worker, you have nothing to worry,” said Long Island Press journalist Jaclyn Gallucci at the first episode of the program. “You do not want to think that someone goes to the murder of women and you want to say,” OK, they put themselves in this situation, this is why this happened to them and this is the reason why this could never happen to me. “”
Others said that they even provided information to the police about a man who matches Hemann’s description years before they were arrested.
In an interview with the program, Dave Schaller and Bear Brodsky, a rib’s colleagues at the time he disappeared in 2010, they shared a meeting they allegedly had with Heermann before they disappeared. They said that Costello called them and said that a customer of his was home and scared. Schaller and Brodsky said they went home and told the man to leave.
They said they knew Costello accepted a man’s call in September 2010 and went to see him (he allegedly offered $ 1,500 for the meeting). Costello never saw again.
Schaller and Brodsky went to the police after Costello faded and described in detail the man and the first generation Chevrolet Avalanche who was driving. In 2023, when they saw Hemann’s face on television after being arrested, Schaller said he was the same man who had told police for more than a decade earlier. Hemann was leading a first -generation cosvrolet chevrolet at the time of his arrest.
“(The police) had their answers during the king years,” he said.
Coverage that prevented authorities from finding Heermann
Although the show did not include interviews with the police at the time of the murders, the second episode explores controversy that may have been fundamental to derail the case. According to the New York Law JournalThomas Spota, the Suffolk District District prosecutor, resigned in 2017 in the midst of an indictment that he claimed to hide an incident of police brutality that saw the authorities threatened a victim. The accusation led him to be overflowed in 2020, News 12 reported and sentenced to federal prison the following year, according to The associated press.
Yahoo News reported that Suffolk County Chief James Burke moved away from the post in 2015 and was arrested in 2023 to apply for a sex worker.
In an interview with the program, Gus Garcia-Roberts, a research journalist who covered the Newsweek case, said that looking back, it was likely that Burke’s professional discomfort could have been taken away from the investigation of Gilgo Beach’s killings.
The last episode of the show seems to say the Garcia-Roperts theory, as Ray Tierney, who has been the Suffolk district district prosecutor since January 2022, said that after a new team of researchers set himself, it took them only six weeks to pay attention to Heermann as a suspect.
Director Liz Garbus agrees with Garcia-Roberts.
“I think Suffolk County, under the police chief, Jimmy Burke and Da Tom Spota, were directed as a crime union,” he said Tudum. “This is a wise account of how to stop these kinds of things before these types of people have positions of power.”
Where is it now Rex Hemann?
People The magazine reported that Hemann remains without bail at Riverhead’s correctional installation in Suffolk County, which was waiting for the trial.
“Mostly, it seems that this is a new way of life for (Heermann),” said Suffolk County Sheriff, Errol D. Toulon Jr., Ed.d. “At first he had a little more starry eyes on his environment. Life has been transformed in recent months. He receives visits, makes telephone calls and does not meet with the rest of the population because of the crimes he is charged with.”
As authorities continue to investigate the case and other unresolved incidents in the area that covers the years, the destiny of Heermann is not yet clear, Tudum reported. Garbus said on the way out that the case evolved as the docuseries were completed.
“After completing us and turning us into our cuts to Netflix, there was another victim added to (Heermann’s),” he said. “Will there be more between now and the time it gives us? It is possible. Will there be more between now and the time we are going to trial, if we are going to trial? I would bet yes.”
