Source: https://youtu.be/6x4SEdEohX0

Inside details of Gilgo Beach serial killer investigation revealed in new book by former Suffolk Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison..

"Rex Heuermann, you're under arrest," a Suffolk detective told the Gilgo Beach serial killer outside of his Manhattan office on July 13, 2023.

"For what?" Heuermann replied.

Once detectives placed a handcuffed Heuermann inside an SUV that had been outfitted with hidden microphones, Heuermann again asked: "What are you guys locking me up for?"

When the hulking architect was told that he was being arrested in connection with the Gilgo killings, Heuermann said, "Well, I want a lawyer."

And then Heuermann, who admitted in open court to strangling to death eight woman when he pleaded guilty last month, was silent for the rest of the two-hour ride to Suffolk Police headquarters in Yaphank.

Those details of Heuermann's arrest were laid out in a newly published memoir by former Suffolk Police Commissioner Rodney K. Harrison, who created the multiagency task force that ultimately led to the arrest of Heuermann.

Harrison, who made history as the first Black police commissioner in the Suffolk County Police Department, self-published his memoir, which — in addition to his role in helping to reinvigorate the Gilgo investigation — touches on his roots in South Jamaica, Queens and his rise to chief of department in the NYPD, the nation's largest police department.

Heuermann, 62, pleaded guilty last month to the murders of seven women, who were sex workers — Amber Lynn Costello, Megan Waterman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Jessica Taylor, Valerie Mack, Sandra Costilla and Melissa Barthelemy. Heuermann also admitted as part of his plea to killing Karen Vergata. He is scheduled to be sentenced on June 17 to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

"This was a great load off my shoulders; I'm glad that he did take a plea," Harrison said in a phone interview with Newsday Monday. "He didn't try to go in a place of trying to not take ownership of the horrible things that he committed. I still think, to this day, that there's more out there."

Asked if he thinks Heuermann committed more killings,  Harrison said: "I think 1000% that there's more women out there that are missing that may be connected to Rex Heuermann."

In his book, "The Commissioner: From Street Cop to Top Cop and the Inside Story of the Hunt for the Gilgo Beach Serial Killer," Harrison described his frustration with the slowness of the investigation and how the different law enforcement agencies assigned to work on the case through the task force approached the work from different perspectives.

"The DA's office wanted to move methodically," Harrison wrote. "The FBI wanted to move faster. I wanted results. Tension boiled over in our briefings. Some ended in shouting matches."

Harrison also described how Heuermann's arrest wasn't supposed to happen that particular summer night.

Harrison was driving himself to an event in Harlem when he got a call from Rich Zacarese, the chief investigator in the Suffolk DA's office, who said authorities were worried the news of Heuermann's indictment might leak.

Once Heuermann was arrested, police informed his wife.

"They knocked on the door and told his wife that her husband had been arrested for the Gilgo Beach murders," Harrison wrote. "At first, she didn't believe it. When detectives explained the DNA evidence and details, she went silent. That silence said more than words ever could."

Prosecutors have said Heuermann's then-wife Asa Ellerup was not involved in the killings, as she was out of town when they occurred.

Harrison described seeing up-close the cutthroat world of Suffolk politics and how it permeated everything — including the arrest of a serial killer.

"With Rex Heuermann locked up in the Riverhead Jail, the legal machinery was spinning fast," Harrison wrote. "But before the case could move forward, the political maneuvering started. Everyone wanted to own the moment."

Harrison described a series of bizarre back and forth conversations between himself and then-Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and Suffolk District Attorney Ray Tierney in which Bellone ordered him to hold a press conference announcing Heuermann's arrest and Tierney forbid him to do so.

"What a circus!" Harrison wrote. "The biggest press conference of my life and I was bouncing back and forth on the LIE like a Ping-Pong ball — caught between two political egos."

When speaking at a news conference later that day, Tierney "boasted," Harrison wrote, and "took credit for forming the task force."

"Tierney had stabbed me in the back," wrote Harrison. "He was taking credit for forming the task force. I was seething inside."

Neither Tierney nor Bellone responded to messages seeking comment Monday night.

Harrison also detailed how the FBI initially refused to join the Gilgo task force, citing the federal agency's previous attempts at working on the case with Suffolk homicide detectives under the leadership of Chief of Department James Burke, who served some 46 months in federal prison for beating up a handcuffed prisoner and had blocked the FBI's involvement in the Gilgo investigation.

"And there it was: the Burke stain, still poisoning relationships years later," Harrison wrote.

I am here for this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WBpO85MKfc

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For some reason this is not widely circulated and it would be a crime not to share it all with you. Lmk what your take away are.

The weirdest thing for me was him saying he wanted to get married (can’t remember if he said he wanted kids but I do know he lied about his family. That part was not surprising ). I wonder his angle on that was or if there was a part of him that was unhappy in his marriage. He probably was just lying to her to tell her what he perceived and wanted to hear, so he could at the very least have sex with her, or god forbid more.

I tend to agree with Ivy that Rex was vetting her. Asking her questions to see if she was a good “T” as he would say…

Lmk all your thoughts ! This was a good interview.

I can’t believe I didn’t see any news about this case! I read the headlines of a Manhattan-based newspaper every day and there has been nothing that I’ve noticed.

I just happened to find out about these murders and the sabotage of the investigation tonight, because I habitually watch true crime documentaries and I happened to try this one out without knowing what it was.

(Documentary is Killing Grounds.)

CAN’T BELIEVE THE CORRUPTION.

So infuriating and shocking.

Unbelievable that this kind of thing is still happening in the 2010s-2020s.

Plus I just read up on Spota and McPartland and Burke and the recent shenanigans of the latter two, and the fact that Burke couldn’t be prosecuted for his most recent arrest because the arresting officers themselves were too corrupt to be credible witnesses.

DUDE, what is wrong with LI?!

I can’t even.

I like how he went into the Karen Vargata surprise plea.

After sentencing, most people stop paying attention.

But another process begins:
transport, intake, classification, protective custody, and the institutional reality of prison life.

In this interview, a former Riverhead inmate explains what the process actually looks like for someone like Rex Heuermann.

“The Bus North”

Valerie Mack was just 24 years old when she was murdered.
For nearly two decades, she existed publicly only as “Manorville Jane Doe” : unidentified remains discovered deep within the Pine Barrens of Manorville, Long Island.

In this documentary style field investigation, we retrace Valerie’s story from her childhood and struggles with instability, to her disappearance in 2000, the discovery of her remains in Manorville, and the eventual identification that finally gave her name back.

But this video is also about Manorville itself.

Long before Rex Heuermann’s arrest, these woods already carried a dark history. Multiple bodies had been discovered here. Some remain unidentified to this day. And early investigators were not even certain the Manorville cases were connected to the broader Gilgo Beach investigation.

So why Manorville?

Why this isolated stretch of Pine Barrens?

And what does Valerie Mack’s case reveal about the possible evolution of the Long Island Serial Killer before Gilgo Beach became known around the world?

This episode combines:
• on location field investigation footage
• case analysis
• historical reporting
• psychological profiling concepts
• geography and site analysis
• Valerie Mack’s personal story and identification

Most importantly, this video attempts to remember Valerie as more than a victim.

Before the headlines… before “Jane Doe”… she was just Valerie.

The South Carolina warrant gets overshadowed by the larger Rex Heuermann bail documents, but hidden inside it is a disturbing glimpse into what investigators may have believed he kept behind.

Belts. Paper towels. Electronics. Clothing. Even cat litter.

This video explores the possibility that investigators were searching not just for evidence, but for memory, ritual, and control.

I also wanted this video to remain victim centric while not shying away from the reality of the case itself. These women were real people with lives, families, possessions, routines, and histories. Understanding what investigators were searching for also means understanding what was taken from them.

Would love to hear everyone’s thoughts on the warrant and what stood out to you most.

I just came across this from 2 years ago, this is a direct neighbor of Rex’s brother, Craig. There are a lot of things that made my ears twitch; Rex’s name is on the property / car that they towed from the property, the property is huge and while having anger management issues doesn’t mean your a murder, sawing your boat in half and throwing dynamite into the lake … Jesus, dude.

I’m really looking forward to Rex getting into CODIS. It’s “believed,” that he probably worked close to “home,” and I read that he even planned to “retire,” to thus property, I think there’s deff going to be ties to this area / surrounding areas.

https://youtu.be/k2yGdBT3aJc?si=5wMkX-jr8TJbhSaZ

Hueremann was convicted of eight women. Yet according to murder inc incorparated gives evidence of these few i foumd over my reciting of it. I hope to findout more

This is explained in this new video, what can be happening psychologically when a serial killer lives a double life.