Detectives working the Gilgo Beach murders on Long Island visited Jones Beach after discovering disturbing evidence — including a bloody glove — near where suspect Rex Heuermann once worked, The Post has learned.
Less than two months after Heuermann was arrested in July 2023 in connection to three of the 11 Gilgo Beach murders, workers three miles away at Jones Beach unearthed a cache of weather-beaten purses and women’s and girls’ clothing buried in the sand just outside the East Bathhouse, police sources said.
The workers were cleaning the area, and called police immediately.
Police sources said the clothing was from the late 1980s and early 1990s. The items were buried two feet deep.
The items included rayon mini-skirts, shorts, pants and shirts, some with their buttons popped off — suggesting the clothing may have been torn off or forced open, sources said.
Also found: a blood-covered workmen’s glove, and a mysterious leather strap hidden inside a shack still used by beach employees, sources said.
Heuermann, 61, worked at Jones beach during the summers of 1981 through 1984, when he was in his late teens, prosecutors revealed in February. The East Bathhouse has been closed since 2009, and should reopen next summer after recent renovations.
“They’re definitely taking this seriously, given how close it is to Gilgo Beach,” a source explained. “It could be a coincidence, though.”
All of the items were collected by investigators for forensic testing. It was unclear if results had been returned.
Jones Beach ends where Gilgo Beach begins, and prosecutors contend Heuermann is well-acquainted with Ocean Parkway, where most of the victims’ bodies were scattered.
Jones Beach has for decades used burlap fencing during the winter months to guard plants on the dunes, as well as protect the dunes from erosion caused by wind, the sources noted. Some of the Long Island serial killer’s victims were found wrapped in burlap.
A judge this week ruled prosecutors could present DNA evidence at Heuermann’s trial. The court hearing is set for Sept. 23.
Prosecutors utilized a more advanced but unproven method for testing hairs recovered from some of the bodies, marking a first for New York.
Heuermann is accused of killing Valerie Mack, 24; Melissa Taylor, 20; Megan Waterman, 22; Melissa Barthelemy, 24; Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25; Sandra Costilla, 28; and Amber Lynn Costello, 27. He’s pleaded not guilty to all seven murder charges.
Investigators are still trying to connect Heuermann to four other bodies found dumped along Ocean Parkway at Gilgo Beach.
All of the victims were sex workers in the New York Metro area.
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