Victim: Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, missing July 2007, found Gilgo Beach Dec 2010 *POI Rex Heuermann*

[Mountain_Kat]

Bumping for Maureen.

 

[susan1122]

It’s been a long time since I posted, but have been watching Websleuths on You Tube (Hurray!), so wanted to come back here, too.

I am so grateful the heinous LISK was finally found (allegedly).

 

[dotr]

Gilgo Beach Suspect Rex Heuermann Hit with Fourth Murder Charge

Rex Heuermann -- the alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer -- has just been hit with a new murder charge ... an expected development, officially rounding out the 4 known victims.

www.tmz.com

Dec 17, 2024

A timeline of the investigation of the Gilgo Beach killings

For years, women had been disappearing on Long Island. Then in 2010, investigators searching for a missing woman began finding 10 sets of human remains in the scrub along a barrier island parkway, not far from the sands of New York’s remote Gilgo Beach. Police almost immediately feared some were...

halifax.citynews.ca

''July 9, 2007: Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, who had traveled to New York City from her home in Norwich, Connecticut, for sex work, is last heard from by a friend. She says she is leaving her hotel to meet a client. Investigators later say cellphone records showed her phone was last used on Long Island.''

''Jan. 16, 2024: Heuermann is charged in the death of Brainard-Barnes. Prosecutors say a hair found with her corpse is genetically similar to a DNA sample from Heuermann’s wife.''

Rex Heuermann charged with murder of fourth Gilgo Beach victim

Maureen Brainard-Barnes was last seen alive in July 2007, when she left a motel in Manhattan to meet a client for sex work

www.independent.co.uk

Rachel Sharp 16 January 2024
''Brainard-Barnes was last seen alive on 9 July 2007, when she left a motel in Manhattan to meet a client for sex work.
At the time, the 25-year-old was living in Norwich, Connecticut, but had travelled to Manhattan in early July where she was staying at and working out of the Super 8 Motel on 59 West 46th St. She was known to advertise her services on Craigslist, Backpage and other websites under the names of Juliana or Marie.

Just before midnight on 9 July 2007, Brainard-Barnes called a friend in Connecticut to say she would be going to meet a client on an “out-call” outside of the motel.
She was never seen or heard from again.
Over three years later in December 2010, her remains were discovered dumped in the thick brush along Ocean Parkway, near Gilgo Beach. Her body had been bound by three leather belts, one of which was embossed with the initials “W.H.” or H.M.”

''Prosecutors allege that an analysis of Mr Heuermann’s laptop indicates that he used file shredding software on 9 July 2009, not long before he was to meet with Barthelemy.
“Investigators believe this was an attempt to “shred” any digital evidence of the laptop computer being utilized to search for Melissa Barthelemy’s prostitution advertisement,” the documents state.''