Suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann is accused of killing seven ladies and dumping their our bodies in varied areas throughout Long Island, New York, over a horrifying 18-year stretch. He pleaded not responsible to the murders of the seven ladies whose stays have been discovered scattered on Long Island between 1993 and 2011. Author Vanessa Cuti, who previously manned the close by Suffolk Police tip line, completely tells In Touch in regards to the cellphone calls she fielded after the primary 4 ladies’s our bodies have been found in 2010.
“It just exploded. There were hundreds and hundreds of calls,” Cuti explains to investigative reporter Kristin Thorne as a part of a brand new true crime video sequence, In Touch Investigates, revealing lots of the callers questioned if the killer was their very own boyfriend or husband.
Cuti was employed by the Suffolk Police Department for a public relations place in 2010, the place she labored in a tiny room and operated what she mentioned was an “old timey red plastic phone with a curly cord and push buttons.” At the time, she labored alone as she answered a “manageable caseload” of cellphone calls till ladies’s our bodies have been found after being dumped in a close-by space referred to as Gilgo Beach on Long Island.
From the preliminary investigation, police suspected that they had a serial killer on their fingers and the homicide case gripped all the world. Residents of the suburban cities have been fearful after the our bodies have been present in 2010 and 2011 and because the homicides grew to become extra broadly identified, a number of documentaries and movies have been launched in regards to the killings.
Cuti says the tip line cellphone calls she was fielding on the time consisted of “anything you could think of.”
“There were a lot of psychics calling. What amazed me most was that so many people were calling about men in their lives. Men they had known,” the previous authorities worker explains, confirming there have been ladies calling in believing their husband or boyfriend ought to be investigated.
“It was mostly people from their past. I don’t remember anyone saying my current husband, but it was, people would say, I had this crazy ex-boyfriend when I was so-and-so,” she describes. “You guys really have to look into him. And it was not just one call like that.”
Thirteen years later, in July 2023, authorities arrested the New York City architect, 61, outdoors his workplace in midtown Manhattan.
Heuermann was charged with the murders of seven ladies, together with Megan Waterman, 22, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Amber Lynn Costello, 27, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25 — 4 of the 11 victims whose stays have been found close to Long Island’s Gilgo Beach.
According to the Suffolk County Police Commissioner, Heuermann’s ex-wife, Asa Ellerup, and two kids have been out of city when he allegedly dedicated the murders. Ellerup filed for divorce from Heuermann in 2023 days after he was arrested.
Although he’s now headed to trial, the married father of two continues to insist he’s harmless and denies killing anybody.
When Heuermann was lastly jailed in Suffolk County whereas awaiting trial for the crimes, Cuti admits she was stunned by his arrest. “I was shocked, honestly, to evade capture for that long and then to be captured,” she says. “And I was shocked. I couldn’t believe that they found that they found him.”
