Gilgo Seashore sufferer’s sister says suspect with a Lengthy Island accent referred to as her to say he raped her

The sister of one of many Gilgo Seashore victims has revealed how the killer would torment the household by calling them on the cellphone and on no less than seven events even used the sufferer’s private cellphone.

The physique of Melissa Barthelemy, who grew up in Buffalo, New York, was discovered on December 11, 2010, greater than a 12 months after she went lacking. 

Two days later, the our bodies of three different younger ladies had been found nearby along remote stretches of coastline on New York’s Long Island.  Manhattan architect Rex Heuermann, 59, has been charged with three murders – together with Barthelemy’s – after being arrested at his Lengthy Island residence on July 14.

The ordeal was particularly unnerving for Barthelemy’s household because the suspect used Barthelemy’s personal cellphone to taunt her kinfolk in 2009 with a number of calls quickly after her disappearance – together with one during which he admitted he’d killed her.

‘He killed her; he raped her. Perhaps in the future he’d inform me the place she was,’ Amanda F, Barthelemy’s sister, advised PIX11, after she began receiving cellphone calls when she was 15. 

The physique of Melissa Barthelemy (pictured right here with brown hair), who grew up in Buffalo, New York, was discovered on December 11, 2010, greater than a 12 months after she went lacking

Manhattan architect Rex Heuermann (pictured), 59, is charged with three murders attributed to the Gilgo Seashore serial killer, and is the prime suspect in a fourth sufferer’s homicide

Chillingly, Amanda additionally revealed the person had been holding tabs on her within the aftermath of her sister’s homicide: ‘e knew my identify. He knew what I seemed like.’

‘He had a robust accent, New York, Lengthy Island. He was very monotone when he talked, like a middle-aged white man.’ 

Police later traced the calls and located pings from her useless sister’s cellphone had been detected at Penn Station in Manhattan, near the place Heuermann’s workplace is positioned, in keeping with the courtroom paperwork, and likewise in Massapequa, the place he lives. 

Recalling the terrifying phonecalls in 2020, Amanda mentioned that the killer had referred to as her to name her sister insulting names, referring to her intercourse work.

‘He killed Melissa after having intercourse together with her,’ Amanda F. retold. ‘Within the ultimate name, he mentioned he’d killed her.’

A complete of seven calls had been made to the household with the ultimate one being positioned on August 26, 2009.

The dates of the calls had been revealed throughout Heuermann’s felony arraignment on Friday.

Barthelemy, a petite blonde lady, was the primary of the serial killer’s victims to be discovered on Ocean Parkway in December 2010. 

Barthelemy was an escort who had disappeared from the Bronx the 12 months earlier than.

The killer offered clues together with strands of hair, the burlap used to wrap the our bodies and a belt embossed with doable initials.

The primary sufferer, Melissa Barthelemy (left), 24, was found by Suffolk County Police on December 11, 2010. The physique of Megan Waterman (proper), 22, was discovered two days later

Heuermann is charged with killing Amber Costello (proper) and is linked with the homicide of Maureen Brainard-Barnes (left) 

Rex Heuermann is proven in considered one of his Tinder profile photos. Police tracked the fictional electronic mail account he used on the profile and his burner cellphone quantity to the case

Heuermann was charged with first- and second-degree homicide in reference to the deaths of Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello. Authorities mentioned he’s additionally the ‘prime suspect’ in one other killing. 

A cousin of Barthelemy’s, Amy Brotz, mentioned the arrest rekindled anger and grief – but in addition introduced the prospect of closure.

‘I can not wrap my head round this,’ Brotz mentioned, simply hours after being startled by the sudden information of an arrest. 

‘God has introduced peace to the households,’ she mentioned. ‘Perhaps we will begin the therapeutic.’ 

Whereas closure may very well be close to for Brotz and her household, the ordeal is just not but over. 

She worries that prosecutors will not have the ability to show their case past an affordable doubt, and she or he is cautious of the emotional toll and relived trauma that’s nonetheless to come back ought to the case go to trial.

‘The truth that my household goes to have to take a seat and take heed to all this, to each particular, tiny little element is making me sick,’ Brotz mentioned.

To speed up the seek for Barthelemy’s stays, her household employed a psychic who offered tantalizing clues that may show prophetic: She can be present in a shallow grave alongside the shore, close to an indication with the letter G. 

Gilgo Seashore would develop into the point of interest of the long-stalled investigation into the invention of 11 units of stays, together with that of a toddler, all discarded alongside the parkway that cuts the size of a skinny strip of white sand, filth, brambles and marshes often called Jones Seashore Island. 

Crime scene investigators deliver out proof from the Massapequa Park residence of Rex Heuermann who was arrested as a suspect within the Gilgo Seashore serial killing

Forensics groups had been seen combing by way of Heuermann’s Lengthy Island residence on Friday. A freezer was amongst gadgets seized 

A map exhibiting the place eight of the victims stays had been positioned alongside the barren stretch of Ocean Seashore Parkway in Gilgo Seashore, positioned on the South Shore of Lengthy Island 

Lengthy Island architect Rex Heuermann (pictured), 59, has been arrested in reference to the Gilgo Seashore serial killings in a serious police breakthrough

The toddler and three different victims have but to be recognized. All 10 grownup victims, together with the toddler’s mom, had been intercourse staff, police mentioned.

However investigators say the suspect, Heuermann, won’t be liable for all the deaths. 

Along with the Barthelemy case, he has up to now solely been accused of killing two others, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello, who had been reported lacking in 2010. 

He’s additionally the prime suspect within the dying of a fourth lady who disappeared three years earlier, Maureen Brainard-Barnes. 

Heuermann says he’s harmless, in keeping with his lawyer.

If convicted on all expenses, Heuermann would face a number of life sentences with out the potential for parole.

‘Demise is simply too good for him,’ the sufferer’s mom, Lynn Barthelemy, told NBC News.

‘I´d like him to undergo by the hands of different inmates,’ she mentioned.

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Though all the circumstances have not been solved, New York Governor Kathy Hochul mentioned many affected communities can be ‘sleeping lots simpler’ after Heuermann’s seize.

‘Loads of households whose lives have been simply turned the wrong way up, at all times questioning, questioning what occurred and can the perpetrator ever be delivered to justice – hopefully … the reply shall be sure,’ she mentioned on Friday.