This took
waaaay too long, but I compiled a comprehensive timeline of all known events in RH's life and the murders, primarily from legal documents & government databases to ensure accuracy
ETA: The dates in red directly pertain to the murders
Timeline of events
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29 November 1975: RH's father dies at age 50, when RH was 12 years old (
NY Post)
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May/June 1981: RH graduates from Berner High School in Massapequa (
NY Daily News)
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Summer 1981: RH works as a seasonal employee at Jones Beach State Park (
statement from NY State Parks Department to NY Post)
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5 March 1984: RH begins working (presumably full-time) at Jones Beach State Park (
statement from NY State Parks Department to NY Post)
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24 October 1987: RH leaves his position at Jones Beach State Park (
statement from NY State Parks Department to NY Post)
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1987: Started working in Manhattan (pg. 47 of the
EBT in Heuermann v O'Sullivan)
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29 September 1990: RH marries his first wife at St. Peter's Church in New Brunswick, NJ. At the time of their marriage, RH was working at Greer Construction Corp. in Freeport, NY as an architect intern. He graduated from the New York Institute of Technology in Westbury, NY with a degree in architectural technology (
Central Jersey Home News, 28 Oct 1990)
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1993: RH and his first wife divorce after "almost three years" of marriage (pg. 8 of the
EBT in Heuermann v O'Sullivan)
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29 April 1994: RH purchases the house in Massapequa Park from his mother for $170,000 (
Nassau County Land Records Viewer)
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12 June 1995: RH files a small claims assessment review against Nassau County in Nassau Supreme Court (
Heuermann v Nassau)
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13 April 1996: RH marries his second wife (pg. 8 of the
EBT in Heuermann v O'Sullivan)
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4 November 1996: RH obtains his architecture license in NY State (
NY State Office of the Professions)
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23 April 2005: RH
purchases a timeshare at Club du Soleil in Las Vegas for $16,995
- 6 July 2007: Maureen Brainard-Barnes' cellphone is contacted by a burner phone (pg. 5 of the
bail application)
- 9 July 2007, 11:56 p.m.: Maureen's cellphone pings in Midtown Manhattan near the 59th Street Bridge (pg. 5 of the
bail application)
- 12 July 2007: Two outbound calls were made from Maureen's cellphone, checking her voicemail from a cell site location near the Long Island Expressway in Islandia (pg. 5 of the
bail application)
- 3 July 2009: Melissa Bathelemy's cellphone is contacted by a burner phone (pg. 5 of the
bail application)
- 6 July 2009: Melissa's cellphone is contacted by the same burner phone (pg. 5 of the
bail application)
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8 July 2009: RH's wife leaves the United States for Iceland (pg. 8 of the
bail application)
- 9 July 2009: Melissa's cellphone is again contacted by the same burner phone (pg. 5 of the
bail application)
- 10 July 2009: Melissa is last seen in New York City. Her cellphone is contacted by the same burner phone and the burner phone travels from Massapequa Park to Midtown Manhattan (pg. 5 of the
bail application)
- 11 July 2009, 1:43 a.m.: Melissa's cellphone travels from Manhattan to Massapequa, last pinging in Massapequa at 1:43 a.m. Earlier that same day, her phone was used to check her voicemail in both Freeport and Babylon (pg. 5 of the
bail application)
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12 July 2009: Melissa's cellphone is used to make an outbound call to check her voicemail in Babylon (pg. 5 of the
bail application)
- 14 July 2009
- 12:40 p.m.: A male caller uses Melissa's cellphone to contact her family, connecting with a cell tower at 4 Penn Plaza in Manhattan (pg. 10 of the bail application)
- 1:45 p.m.: RH's cellphone places a call in New York City (pg. 11 of the bail application)
- 6:58 p.m.: RH's cellphone shows a call location in New York City (pg. 10 of the bail application)
- 7:15 p.m.: The burner phone used to contact Melissa has activity in Manhattan (pg. 10 of the bail application)
- 7:22 p.m.: RH's cellphone shows a call location in New York City (pg. 10 of the bail application)
- 17 July 2009: Melissa's phone is used in Midtown Manhattan to make taunting calls to her family members on July 17. The male caller admits to killing and sexually assaulting her. (pg. 6 of the
bail application)
- 22 July 2009
- 5:12 p.m.: RH places a call from New York City (pg. 12 of the bail application)
- 6:51 p.m.: The burner cellphone used to contact Melissa registered activity at a cell tower at 19 West 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan, near RH's office (pg. 12 of the bail application)
- 23 July 2009:
- 12:48 p.m.: RH places a call from New York City (pg. 13 of the bail application)
- 1:39 p.m.: The burner phone used to contact Melissa had activity attached to a cell tower at 19 West 34th Street in Manhattan (pg. 13 of the bail application)
- 6:42 p.m.: A male caller uses Melissa's phone to contact her family from a cell tower at 275 West 39th Street in Manhattan (pg. 13 of the bail application)
- 8:29 - 8:30 p.m.: The burner phone used to contact Melissa has activity in New York City (pg. 13 of the bail application)
- 11:05 p.m.: RH's cellphone places a call from Jamaica, Queens (pg. 13 of the bail application)
- 5 August 2009:
- 6:46 - 7:05 p.m.: RH's cellphone pings near his office (pg. 14 of the bail application)
- 6:50 - 7:11 p.m.: Melissa's phone is used in Midtown Manhattan near RH's office to make taunting calls to her family members (pg. 14 of the bail application)
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18 August 2009: RH's wife returns to the United States from Iceland (pg. 8 of the
bail application)
- 19 August 2009
- 7:16 p.m.: RH's cellphone makes a call from New York City (pg. 15 of the bail application)
- 7:23 p.m.: A male caller uses Melissa's cellphone to make a taunting call to her family from Manhattan, pinging from a cell tower at 249 West 36th Street (pg. 15 of the bail application)
- 7:28 p.m.: RH's cellphone makes a call from New York City (pg. 15 of the bail application)
- 26 August 2009:
- 11:29 - 11:34 a.m.: Melissa's cellphone is used to make a taunting call to her family member from a cell tower at 4 Penn Plaza (pg. 16 of the bail application)
- 11:38 a.m.: RH's cellphone lists a call location from New York City (pg. 16 of the bail application)
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17 May 2010: RH acquires a hunting license in Alaska (
Newsweek)
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4 June 2010: RH's wife travels from New York to Maryland (pg. 9 of the
bail application)
- 5 June 2010: Megan Waterman's cellphone is contacted by a burner phone which had been activated that same day (pg. 6 of the
bail application)
- 6 June 2010
- 1:30 a.m.: Megan is last seen alive at the Holiday Inn in Hauppauge, NY. At 1:31 a.m., she is contacted by the burner phone. (pg. 6 of the bail application)
- 3:11 a.m.: Megan's phone last pings near RH's house in Massapequa Park (pg. 6 of the bail application)
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8 June 2010: RH's wife returns to New York from Maryland (pg. 9 of the
bail application)
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28 August 2010: RH's wife travels from New York to New Jersey (pg. 9 of the
bail application)
- 1 September 2010, 11:33 - 11:34 p.m.: Amber Costello's phone is contacted twice by a burner phone. During these calls, the burner phone pinged from cell towers in West Amityville and Massapequa Park (pg. 7 of the
bail application)
- 2 September 2010
- 12:05 a.m.: The burner phone has contact with Amber's phone from West Babylon. Around this time, the client -- described as an "ogre" driving a first-generation Chevy Avalanche -- arrives at her residence at pays for her services, at which point a male pretends to be an outraged boyfriend and the client leaves. (pg. 7 of the bail application)
- 1:18 a.m.: Amber receives a text from the burner phone reading "That was not nice so do i [sic] credit for next time." The burner phone sent the text message from Massapequa Park. (pg. 8 of the bail application)
- 9:32 p.m.: The same burner phone communicates with Amber's phone, using a cell tower in Midtown Manhattan (pg. 8 of the bail application)
- 10:39 p.m.: The burner phone again has contact with Amber's phone, this time from a cell tower in Massapequa Park (pg. 8 of the bail application)
- 11:05 p.m.: The burner phone has contact with Amber's phone from a cell tower in Massapequa Park (pg. 8 of the bail application)
- 11:17 p.m.: The burner phone travels to West Babylon near Amber Costello's residence. Shortly after this, a dark-colored truck was seen driving past Amber Costello's residence. (pg. 8 of the bail application)
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5 September 2010: RH's wife returns to New York from New Jersey (pg. 9 of the
bail application)
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15 January 2011: An AOL email account -- "Springfieldman9" -- linked to a Tinder account and burner phone is established with an Astoria, Queens zip code (pg. 17 of the
bail application)
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October 31, 2013: RH is allegedly (case later dismissed) struck by a car at the intersection of West 36th Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan (
Affirmation in Opposition in Heuermann v Singh)
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2014 or 2015: RH had hernia surgery (pg. 99 of the
EBT in Heuermann v O'Sullivan)
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19 February 2016: RH allegedly is involved in a car accident on the Capital Beltway in Prince George's County, Maryland (pg. 3 of the
complaint in Heuermann v Martin)
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11 January 2017, 10:15 p.m.: Car accident at the intersection of Front Street and Second Avenue in Massapequa Park (pg. 35 of the
EBT in Heuermann v O'Sullivan)
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Mid- to late January 2017: RH flies to Las Vegas to attend a conference for "four or five days" (pg. 19 of the
EBT in Heuermann v O'Sullivan)
- March 2017: RH drives down to Virginia to visit his mom by himself. (pg. 129 of the
EBT in Heuermann v O'Sullivan)
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November 2017: RH visits Las Vegas alone "for a couple days to meet some people." When asked, "so it was a pleasure trip?," RH responds "I guess you could say that, social." (pg. 133 of the
EBT in Heuermann v O'Sullivan)
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January 2018: RH drives down to Cocoa Beach, Florida with his wife, mother, and daughter (pg. 131 of the
EBT in Heuermann v O'Sullivan)
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12 February 2018: RH underwent shoulder surgery. RH explains that his "intention was to do it [the surgery] in the fall" but that he "was tied up with some family matters that forced [him] to delay," namely, his mother "had to be relocated" (pg. 102 of the
EBT in Heuermann v O'Sullivan)
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March 2018: RH drives down to Virginia to visit his mom, most likely alone (pg. 131 of the
EBT in Heuermann v O'Sullivan)
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Late March - Early April 2018: RH drives his army Jeep "for the first time since September" (pg. 117 of the
EBT in Heuermann v O'Sullivan)
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23 May 2020: RH's home IP address was used to access the official SCPD "Gilgonews.com" website (pg. 24 of the
bail application)
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3 July 2020: RH's home IP address was again used to access the official SCPD "Gilgonews.com" website (pg. 24 of the
bail application)
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14 February 2021
- A fictitious Gmail account, "Hunter1903a3," is created with the fake name "Andy Roberts" and is linked to the burner phone 347-885-1697. The IP address used to accept the Terms of Service for this account was RH's residence in Massapequa Park (pg. 24 of the bail application)
- The "Hunter1903a3" account is used to send pictures of a prostitute in upstate New York between two of RH's "burner" email accounts (pg. 24 of the bail application)
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28 July 2021: RH purchases four unimproved lots totaling about 5 acres on Rippling Brook Drive in the Mirror Lakes subdivision in Chester County, SC for $154,351 (
Rock Hill Herald)
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23 February 2022: RH allegedly gets into a car accident near the intersection of Union Avenue and Devoe Street in Brooklyn (pg. 5 of
complaint in Heuermann v Fenimore)
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28 March 2022, 9:19 - 9:25 a.m.: A fictitious Gmail account, "thawk080672," is used to search "long island serial killer" (pg. 20 of the
bail application)
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21 July 2022: An undercover SCPD detective recovers 11 bottles from the trash can outside RH's house in Massapequa Park (pg. 26 of the
bail application)
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8 November 2022: The burner cellphone 347-304-2671 is used to access the "Springfieldman9" account (pg. 17 of the
bail application)
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11 December 2022: RH's cellphone is used to access the fictitious "Springfieldman9" email account for over 3 hours (pg. 17 of the
bail application)
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26 January 2023: RH is observed throwing a pizza box in a trash can outside 385 5th Avenue in Manhattan. The box is recovered by a surveillance team (pg. 29 of the
bail application)
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19 May 2023: RH is observed by law enforcement via video and field surveillance at a phone store in Manhattan purchasing additional minutes for the burner phone 347-304-2671 (pg. 22 of the
bail application)
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13 July 2023: RH is arrested outside his office in Midtown Manhattan. At the time of his arrest, RH had the burner phone 347-304-2671 (linked to the "thawk080672" Gmail account) on his person (pg. 31 of the
bail application)
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