Rex: The Gilgo Beach Architect | The Rex Heuermann Investigation
Rex Heuermann murdered eight women on Long Island between 1993 and 2010 while working as a Manhattan architect for companies like American Airlines, Target, and Nike. The investigation that should have caught him was obstructed by the very officials running it, with three Suffolk County law enforcement officials eventually going to federal prison for corruption that kept the FBI locked out of the case for years.
This series reconstructs the entire Gilgo Beach case from court filings, cell tower records, DNA evidence, witness testimony, and the public record. Every claim is sourced and cited on NBN.fm.
A 25-episode investigative series from the Neural Broadcast Network.
Episodes
13 episodes
The Week They Found Four Bodies on Ocean Parkway
A K-9 unit searching for Shannan Gilbert finds remains wrapped in burlap on December 11, 2010. Two days later, three more within a quarter mile. By spring 2011, ten sets of remains along one stretch of highway.All sources cited in this e...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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15:04
Inside Heuermann's Murder Planning Document: HK2002-04
A Microsoft Word file labeled HK2002-04, created in 2000 and deleted from the hard drive. Forensically recovered from unallocated space on Heuermann's laptop. Inside: four categories. Problems. Supplies. Dump Sites. Targets.All sources c...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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32:00
Trailer - Rex: The Gilgo Beach Architect
Rex Heuermann killed eight women over 17 years. He strangled them in his childhood home at 105 First Avenue in Massapequa Park while his wife and kids were out of town, wrapped their bodies in burlap, and dumped them along a desolate stretch of...
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3:25
Shannan Gilbert's 22-Minute 911 Call Changed Everything
At 4:51 AM on May 1, 2010, Shannan Gilbert called 911 and said someone was trying to kill her. The call lasted 22 minutes. She fled into the night and was never seen alive again. The search for Shannan led to finding every other body on Ocean P...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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14:55
Maureen Brainard-Barnes: First to Vanish, Last Charged
Maureen Brainard Barnes was 25, a single mother of two from Norwich, Connecticut. She was the first of the Gilgo Four to disappear in 2007 but the last to be formally charged to Heuermann in January 2024.All sources cited in this episode...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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23:17
The Roommate Who Saw the Gilgo Beach Killer's Face
Amber Costello's roommate Dave Schaller came face to face with the killer and described him as an ogre driving a green Chevrolet Avalanche. He gave that description to police in 2010. The tip sat in files for 12 years.All sources cited i...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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16:10
Megan Waterman Left the Holiday Inn at 1:30 AM
Megan Waterman was 22, from Scarborough, Maine, and the mother of a 4 year old daughter she called three times a day. She traveled by bus to New York, checked into a Holiday Inn, and was last seen leaving at 1:30 AM on June 6, 2010.All s...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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18:54
The Phone Calls to Melissa Barthelemy's 15-Year-Old Sister
After Melissa Barthelemy disappeared, her 15 year old sister began receiving phone calls from a man using Melissa's cellphone. He taunted the family and said he was watching the body rot. The calls traced to cell towers 2,372 feet from Heuerman...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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18:43
Two Women Dismembered, Found in Two Locations
Both women were dismembered. Both had remains found in two locations: inland Manorville and coastal Gilgo Beach. The geographic shift reveals a killer who recalibrated his methods after a hunter's dog disrupted his first disposal ground....
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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22:32
27 Years as Jane Doe No. 7: Karen Vergata's Story
For 27 years she was known only as Fire Island Jane Doe. Karen Vergata was 34, from Hell's Kitchen, survived by two sons who were adopted before her death. No missing person report was ever filed.All sources cited in this episode are ava...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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15:21
Sandra Costilla: The First Victim Nobody Knew About
Sandra Costilla was 28, from Trinidad and Tobago, and the mother of a 5 year old son when she was strangled in November 1993. She is the earliest known victim, killed three decades before DNA connected her to the architect from Massapequa Park....
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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20:26
Why Nobody Searched Ocean Parkway for 18 Months
A 15-mile barrier island highway built in the 1930s became a serial killer's dumping ground. Dense brush, no cameras, no streetlights, and fewer than 250 year round residents made Ocean Parkway the place where bodies could sit 20 feet from the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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21:43
Who Was Rex Heuermann Before They Found the Bodies?
A 62-year-old architect from Massapequa Park who commuted to Manhattan, raised a family, and built a client list that included Nike and American Airlines. Inside his childhood home: nearly 300 guns, a basement vault, and a planning document for...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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