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(Riverhead, NY) — Alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann is seeking to be tried separately for different murders.
Heuermann’s attorneys argued that he should be tried for the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Costello and Megan Waterman, in a motion filed Wednesday (Jan 22, 2025) and then put on trial again for other murders.
Defense attorney Sabato Caponi said the murders of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Jessica Taylor, Valerie Mack and Sandra Costilla “are temporally separated by years from one another and from the three murders” Heuermann was first charged with committing. Trying Heuermann for all the killings at once “risks an improper conviction based impermissibly on the cumulative effect of the evidence,” Caponi wrote.
The Massapequa Park suspect has pleaded not guilty to all charges. There was no comment from Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney, whose office planned to respond in court papers.
