Gilgo Beach, putting together the 4th indictment Maureen Brainyard Barnes

Gilgo Beach, putting together the 4th indictment Maureen Brainyard Barnes

When Rex Heuermann was arrested and charged in July as the Gilgo Beach serial killer, prosecutors outlined a narrative against him that his defense lawyer, Michael Brown, attacked as cherry-picked and DNA evidence that Mr. Brown derided as shaky.

Mr. Heuermann, 60, had been charged with murdering three of the so-called Gilgo Four, a quartet of women who in 2010 were found bound with burlap, belts and tape on the Long Island oceanfront.

Prosecutors said they were awaiting the DNA testing they needed to charge him in the killing of the fourth woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, of Norwich, Conn.

But when those charges finally came on Tuesday, just over six months later, prosecutors used the occasion to deliver their version of a knockout punch in the case.

In addition to charging Mr. Heuermann with second-degree murder in court, they filed an extensive outline of an updated, ratcheted-up case that seemed to stun the normally agile Mr. Brown.

NY Times 1/16/24

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