Rex Heuermann due in court over Gilgo Beach murders

Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann is due in court early Tuesday over the notorious slayings of women whose bodies were found on Long Island in 2010.

Heuermann, 59, is scheduled to appear in Suffolk County Court for an 8 a.m. hearing with Judge Timothy Mazzei, according to court filings.

The dad of two faces three counts of murder over Amber Lynn Costello, 27, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, and Megan Waterman, 22, whose bodies were found on Gilgo Beach in 2010.

He is also the prime suspect in the killing of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, the fourth of the so-called “Gilgo Four.”

The architect pleaded not guilty at an arraignment on July 14, the day after he was busted outside his Midtown Manhattan office.

Tuesday’s hearing comes as the now-estranged wife of Heuermann told The Post on Monday her ex’s arrest has taken a toll on their two adult children, who now “cry themselves to sleep” after learning of the shocking accusations.


Rex Heuermann mirror selfie.
Heuermann is accused of killing at least three women.
Suffolk County

Rex Heuermann in his architect firm bio pic.
Heuermann was an architect with an office in New York City.
Rex Heuermann Consultants & Associates

Asa Ellerup, 59, said she’s been plagued with anxiety after investigators spent 12 days tearing apart her Massapequa Park home looking for evidence in the alleged murders.

“I woke up in the middle of the night, shivering,” a still-shocked Ellerup said. “Anxiety.”

“My children cry themselves to sleep. I mean, they’re not children. They’re grown adults but they’re my children, and my son has developmental disabilities and he cried himself to sleep,” she continued.


The "Gilgo Four" murder victims.
Heuermann is accused of killing three women between 2007 and 2010. He is also the prime suspect in a fourth murder.
AP

Crime scene investigators dig for evidence with a backhoe in Heuermann's backyard.
Police recently concluded their search of Heuermann’s family home.
New York Post

Ellerup, her special-needs son, Christopher Sheridan, 33, and her 26-year-old daughter, Victoria Heuermann, were suddenly forced out of their home following Heuermann’s July 13 arrest.

Suffolk County and state police spent nearly two weeks combing through the family’s home, even digging up the backyard in a search for body parts or “trophies” from the slayings.

Who were the Gilgo Beach victims?

Suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann — a New York City architect and married dad of two — was arrested in connection with the long-unsolved Gilgo Beach murders. The arrest is tied to the so-called “Gilgo Four,” women found wrapped in burlap within days of each other in late 2010.

The years-long investigation that led to the arrest revolved around the discovery of more than 10 sets of human remains along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach in Suffolk County between December 2010 and April 2011.

Most victims were petite female sex workers with green or hazel eyes. But there were also two exceptions: a 2-year-old girl and a young Asian man.

Melissa Barthelemy, 24

  • Barthelemy was a sex worker who lived in the Unionport section of the Bronx and dreamed of one day opening her own beauty salon. She was last seen alive in her basement apartment on Underhill Avenue on July 12, 2009.

Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25

  • Brainard-Barnes was living in Norwich, Connecticut. She went missing after taking an Amtrak train from New London, Connecticut, to Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan on July 6, 2007.

Amber Lynn Costello, 27

  • Costello, 27, was a sex worker and heroin addict who lived in West Babylon, New York, at a home with a woman and two men. She advertised on Craigslist and Backpage to support her and her roommates’ drug habits. Costello was found in December 2010 after having been last seen leaving her home that September.

Megan Waterman, 22

  • Waterman, a 22-year-old mom of one, was last seen on June 6, 2010. She lived in Scarborough, Maine, and earned a living as an escort. She was last seen by her family boarding a New York-bound Concord Trailways bus in Maine. Her body was found on December 13, 2010, on the north side of Ocean Parkway, near Gilgo Beach.

Jessica Taylor, 20

  • Remains belonging to Jessica Taylor, a 20-year-old woman working as an escort in New York City, were found in a wooded area in Manorville on July 26, 2003. Her additional remains — initially labeled “Jane Doe No. 5” — were discovered on March 29, 2011, along Ocean Parkway.

Valerie Mack, 24

  • Valerie Mack was 24 years old and living in Philadelphia when she went missing. She worked as an escort, using the alias “Melissa Taylor.” Relatives last saw Mack in the spring or summer of 2000 in Port Republic, New Jersey, but she was never reported as missing to the police. Her partial skeletal remains were found in Manorville in September 2000 but were initially known as “Jane Doe No. 6.”

Unidentified Asian man

  • The skeletal remains of a yet-to-be-identified Asian man were found along Ocean Parkway on April 4, 2011. It is estimated that the man was between 17 and 23 years old at the time of his death. He was approximately 5 feet 6 inches tall with bad teeth.

‘Peaches’ and her daughter

  • An African American woman’s partial remains were discovered in Hempstead Lake State Park back in 1997, and she had become known as “Peaches” because of a bitten tattoo of a peach on her left breast. On April 4, 2011, police uncovered the remains of a toddler, who was about 2 years old at the time of her death. DNA testing confirmed that one of the skeletons was that of the 2-year-old girl’s mother, “Peaches.”

Jane Doe No. 7

  • Remains found on April 11, 2011, along with the body of the woman dubbed “Peaches” was linked by DNA to a body that was found 15 years earlier on Fire Island. On April 20, 1996, skeletal remains of a young white female were discovered in Davis Park on Blue Point Beach. Two sets of remains, collectively known as “Jane Doe No. 7,” have not been identified.

Shannan Gilbert, 23

  • Gilbert was a Craigslist escort who lived in Jersey City, traveled with her driver Michael Pak from Manhattan to meet a client, Joseph Brewer, at his home in the Oak Beach Association on the morning of May 1, 2010. She spoke with two neighbors before disappearing. Her body was discovered in a marsh near Oak Beach — about half a mile from where she was last seen alive — on December 13, 2011.

Last week, cops packed up and left, with Ellerup and her children returning home for the first time.

The accused killer has yet to receive a single visit in jail from his family, authorities said.