India, April 12 -- Rex Heuermann, a Manhattan architect and Nassau County resident, was charged with murdering seven women in the Gilgo Beach serial killings in July 2023. The Gilgo Beach serial killings were a series of murders that spanned from 1993 to 2011 on Long Island, NY.

Heuermann was charged for the murder of seven women - the Gilgo Four: Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Costello, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes, as well as Jessica Taylor, Sandra Costilla, and Valerie Mack.

Costilla was a 28-year-old woman from the Carribean country of Trinidad and Tobago who was killed by Heuermann on November 19 or 20, 1993. According to Heuermann's indictment, the DNA of the hairs found on her body matched with his. Costilla used to liv...