Gilgo Beach ‘serial killer’ is accused of killing fourth woman

Rex Heuermann appears with his lawyer Michael Brown, left, at Suffolk County Court in September 2023 (James Carbone/Newsday via AP)

An architect charged with a string of slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings has been accused of taking the life of a fourth woman, a Connecticut mother-of-two who vanished in 2007 and whose remains were found more than three years later along a coastal motorway in New York.

Rex Heuermann has been formally charged over the death of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, months after being labelled the prime suspect in her death when he was arrested in July over the deaths of three other women.