Officials release new information on Gilgo Beach victim and investigation

(NEW YORK) — The Gilgo Beach Task Force is expected to release a statement Monday regarding a homicide victim in Gilgo Beach and their continuing homicide investigation.

A press conference will take place at 10 a.m.

Rex Heuermann was charged with six murders in Gilgo Beach. Investigators found ten more bodies on a stretch of beach on the south shore of Long Island while searching for missing sex worker Shannan Gilbert.

He was initially charged with the murder of women Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes and Amber Costello, known as the “Gilgo Four.” According to court records, their bodies were found wrapped in burlap in December 2010.

Earlier this year, investigators charged Heuermann with the murders of two other women – the 2003 murder of Jessica Taylor, whose remains were found at Gilgo Beach and in Manorville, and the 1993 murder of Sandra Costilla, whose remains were found in North Sea, Long Island, in 1993.