THE wife of suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann should be investigated after her family was linked to yet another murdered sex worker, a forensic expert outside the case has claimed.
Prosecutors hit disgraced architect Heuermann, 61, with a seventh murder charge this week after discovering his daughter’s hair on victim Valerie Mack’s corpse.
The fresh charges were announced in a bombshell indictment released Tuesday that gave gruesome details on how 24-year-old Mack’s remains were discovered.
In November 2000, hunters found some of her body parts wrapped in black plastic bags and ditched in New York‘s Long Island Pine Barrens.
She had been decapitated, and her hands were chopped off at the wrists. Her right leg was also missing the bottom half.
At the time, Mack was only known as Manorville Jane Doe. Later on, in 2020, genetic testing revealed her identity.
Detectives discovered a hair stuck to Mack’s left wrist that didn’t match her DNA. After Heuermann was arrested in July 2023, they allegedly determined the source – his daughter Victoria.
Victoria would have been just three and a half at the time, but her DNA has played a key role in linking Heuermann to seven victims.
Heuermann has boldly defended himself from all seven murder charges and told the judge he was innocent in court on Tuesday despite the haunting alleged evidence.
Many of the murdered sex workers were chopped up and hidden along Gilgo Beach in Long Island, where eleven people’s remains have been uncovered since 1996.
Mack’s body parts were pulled on April 4, 2011, and Victoria’s hair was allegedly found stuck to the burlap bag hiding her skeletal remains.
Speaking exclusively to The U.S. Sun, famed forensic psychiatrist Carole Lieberman suggested that Victoria and Ellerup’s hairs warrant a second look at the case.
“I was saying from the beginning that I thought his wife had something to do with it,” Lieberman speculated.
“Of course [Heuermann’s] gonna have hair on him because they’re living in the same house.
“It could just be contact DNA. However, I think the wife has seemed suspicious from the beginning.”
Who was Valerie Mack?
VALERIE Mack was a foster child, mother, and sex worker, who was allegedly murdered by the Long Island serial killer around 2000, cops said in a bombshell indictment.
On December 17, 2024, prosecutors officially linked her death to suspect Rex Heuermann.
Mack was working as a sex worker in Philadelphia when she disappeared in 2000. Her family last saw her in New Jersey that same year.
She was born in Atlantic City and was placed in foster care at an early age. She moved around from several families before she was adopted by the Mack family.
In 1994, when she was 17, she gave birth to a son and moved in with her baby’s father in Wildwood, New Jersey. Soon after, she started traveling frequently to Philadelphia.
Police believe that Mack was a sex worker in Philadelphia and Atlantic City between 1996 and 2000.
She had a few run-ins with the law for prostitution charges at that time and was last arrested around June 2000.
Mack went by the alias Melissa Taylor and advertised her escort services online. She also walked the streets to pick up work.
On November 19, 2000, Mack’s partial remains were discovered in Manorville, New York, on Long Island, by hunters. At that time, she was just known as Manorville Jane Doe.
Her remains were decapitated, and she was missing both of her hands and part of her right leg, prosecutors said in an indictment. Her torso, legs, and arms were all bound with rope.
On April 4, 2011, the rest of Mack’s body was uncovered near Gilgo Beach, where 11 people’s remains have been found since 1996.
In 2020, genetic testing revealed Mack’s identity.
In December 2024, Mack was named as the seventh alleged victim of Heuermann – a disgraced architect who was first hit with murder charges on July 13, 2023.
Ellerup hasn’t been hit with any charges since Heuermann’s arrest and swiftly filed for divorce when he was put behind bars.
However, she’s been present throughout his hearings.
When asked about Lieberman’s analysis, Ellerup’s lawyer acknowledged that Victoria’s hair was found at the scene but didn’t have any other comments.
APHeuermann declared his innocence to the fresh charge in a court hearing Tuesday[/caption] GettyEllerup, seen with Victoria in July 2023, quickly filed for divorce after Heuermann was arrested, but she’s been attending his court hearings[/caption] Supreme Court of Suffolk CountyProsecutors made a chart unpacking all the DNA evidence that allegedly tied the victims to the Heuermann family[/caption]SICK ‘PLAN’
Suffolk County prosecutors released a graph laying out all the DNA evidence linking Heuermann to murder cases.
Heuermann is accused of murdering the “Gilgo Four” – Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Lynn Costello – who were all sex workers in New York City.
Brainard-Barnes, who was killed on July 6, 2007, allegedly had one of Ellerup’s hairs on her skeletal remains found north of Gilgo Beach.
Costello, who disappeared in September 2010, allegedly had Victoria’s hair stuck to her scalp when she was found later in December.
Heuermann’s hair was allegedly found on Waterman’s remains when her body was also discovered in December 2010.
And Waterman’s corpse allegedly had both Ellerup’s and Heuermann’s hairs on it.
DNA evidence belonging to the family has also been discovered on other Long Island serial killer victims’ Sandra Costilla and Jessica Taylor.
After reviewing this evidence, Lieberman claimed Ellerup “could have known” about Heuermann’s alleged actions.
“I don’t think anything is off the table,” she said.
Murder victims linked to the Long Island Serial Killer
The sleepy seaside community of Gilgo Beach in Long Island, NY, was horrified after the arrest of Rex Heuermann last year for a series of gruesome murders. Here is what we know about his alleged victims:
Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25 – Brainard-Barnes was believed to be a sex worker based in Norwich, Connecticut. She went by the names “Juliana” or “Marie” and advertised her services on various platforms, including Craigslist and Backpage. She mostly worked out of hotels in Manhattan. On the day of her death on July 6, 2007, she took an Amtrak train from New London to Grand Central Terminal. She was reported missing eight days later, but it wasn’t until 2010 that her remains were found on the north side of Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach.
Melissa Barthelemy, 24 – Barthelemy was an aspiring hairstylist who was last seen alive on July 12, 2009. She worked as an online escort and lived in the Bronx, NYC, but primarily worked out of hotels in Manhattan. She used sites such as Adult Friend Finder and went by either “Chloe” or “VerySexyChloe” online. After she disappeared, her sister revealed she had received calls from a stranger who admitted to killing her. Her body was found on Gilgo Beach on Dec 11, 2010.
Megan Waterman, 22 – Waterman was a single mother living in Scarborough, Maine, when she went missing. A sex worker who advertised her services on Craigslist and Backpage used the aliases “Lexxy” and “Sexy Lexi.” She vanished on June 6, 2010, after leaving a Holiday Inn hotel located in Hauppauge, Long Island. Two days later she was reported missing, and her body was found on December 13 of that same year.
Amber Lynn Costello, 27 – Costello lived in West Babylon, Long Island, at the time of her disappearance. She advertised on Craigslist and Backpage, reportedly to support her heroin addiction. She had entered a detox program shortly before his disappearance before relapsing. She was last seen alive on September 2, 2010, and her body was discovered on Ocean Parkway on December 13, 2010.
Jessica Taylor, 20 – Taylor was an escort working in Midtown, New York when she was reported missing on July 19, 2003. She was reportedly spotted at the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan between July 18 and 21. On July 26, 2003, parts of her body were found in Manorville. More of her remains were discovered on March 29, 2011, during the search for Shannan Gilbert.
Sandra Costilla, 28 – Costilla was a native of Trinidad and Tobago living in New York at the time of her disappearance. Investigators called Costilla a “drifter” and her last known address was in Queens. Costilla’s remains were uncovered in the woods in Southampton on November 20, 1993. Costilla had numerous sharp force injuries to her face, torso, breasts, left thigh, and vaginal area.
Valerie Mack, 24 – At the time of her disappearance, Mack was working as an escort under the alias “Melissa Taylor.” She was last seen alive in the spring of 2000 in New Jersey, but her family didn’t report her missing. Parts of her body were discovered by hikers in September 2000 in the Long Island Pine Barrens, but she was not identified and was instead given the nickname “Jane Doe No. 6.” The rest of her remains were recovered on April 4, 2011, near Gilgo Beach.
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