{"podcast":{"title":"The Gilgo Beach Murders: The Case Against Rex Heuermann","slug":"the-gilgo-beach-murders-the-case-against-rex-heuermann-6470757","podcast_index_feed_id":6470757,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5112097.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5112097","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43563022.jpg","author":"Tony Brueski","episode_count":495,"summary":"For nearly two decades, the remains of young women kept turning up along the desolate stretches of Long Island — in the scrub brush off Ocean Parkway, in wooded areas out east, in places no one was supposed to find them. And for most of that time, no one was held accountable. I'm Tony Brueski, and this podcast is my deep dive into one of the most chilling serial murder cases in modern American history — the Gilgo Beach murders and the case against Rex Heuermann, the New York architect now charged with the killing of seven women spanning from 1993 to 2010. This isn't a case summary. It's the full picture — the women who were allegedly targeted and discarded, the investigative failures that let a suspected killer allegedly operate in plain sight for decades, and the forensic breakthroughs that finally led to an arrest in July 2023. I break down the evidence prosecutors have built — DNA analysis, cellphone data, digital files allegedly recovered from Heuermann's own computer — and the defense strategy aimed at dismantling it. I cover the courtroom battles, the rulings on evidence admissibility, and every development as this case moves toward its next chapter. But more than anything,…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T10:20:02.504285+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gilgo-beach-murders-the-case-against-rex-heuermann-6470757"},"episode":{"title":"Rex Heuermann: The Calls to Melissa's Sister and the Family Gilgo Killer Left Behind","slug":"rex-heuermann-the-calls-to-melissa-s-sister-and-the-family-gilgo-killer-left-behind","published_at":"2026-04-18T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gilgo-beach-murders-the-case-against-rex-heuermann-6470757/rex-heuermann-the-calls-to-melissa-s-sister-and-the-family-gilgo-killer-left-behind","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gilgo-beach-murders-the-case-against-rex-heuermann-6470757","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8891004","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8891004.mp3?modified=1776366894&sid=5112097&source=rss","summary":"For five weeks after Melissa Barthelemy disappeared, someone used her phone to call her 15-year-old sister Amanda. The calls came from crowded Manhattan sidewalks. They lasted under three minutes. They described what had been done to Melissa. And they were aimed exclusively at the teenager — never the mother. A burner phone Melissa had connected with the day she vanished traveled from Massapequa Park to Midtown Manhattan, matching the route between Rex Heuermann's home and office. Hours later, Melissa's own phone traced that path in reverse. Melissa was 24. She'd earned her cosmetology license in Buffalo and moved to New York to build something. The salon work was slow. She ended up in a Bronx basement apartment working escort ads on Craigslist. On July 12, 2009, she told a friend she was going to meet a man. Nobody heard from her again. Prosecutors allege Heuermann searched online for images of the victims' families after the killings — their sisters, their children. The family Heuermann went home to is now caught in the wreckage. Asa Ellerup sat in the back of the courtroom as her ex-husband admitted to eight killings. The woman who once called him her hero walked out into a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the son of victim Valerie Mack, naming both Asa and their daughter Victoria as defendants. The suit alleges the family profited from a documentary and showed disregard for victims. Victoria has publicly stated she believes her father most likely committed the killings. Asa's attorney has called the claims reckless. One family, two completely different reckonings with the same unbearable truth. Robin Dreeke and Eric Faddis break down what the phone calls reveal about the psychology of control, the legal exposure the family now faces, and how people closest to a seri…","meta_description":"For five weeks after Melissa Barthelemy disappeared, someone used her phone to call her 15-year-old sister Amanda. 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