Rex: The Gilgo Beach Architect

July 2023: three counts of murder. January 2024: a fourth. June 2024: two more and the planning document is revealed. December 2024: a seventh. Each charge required its own forensic evidence package built over 33 months.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep21.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter

July 13, 2023. A 59 year old architect is taken into custody in Midtown Manhattan. The 12 day search of his childhood home yields nearly 300 guns, hundreds of electronic devices, and a basement vault. His wife files for divorce within days.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep20.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter

Four burner phones. Over 500 contacts with sex workers in two years. Fake email accounts used to monitor news coverage of his own case. And then he bought one of those burner phones with his personal credit card.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep19.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter

Rex Heuermann tosses a pizza box into a Manhattan trash can. Investigators recover it. The DNA on the crust matches hair found on burlap used to wrap one of the victims. One careless moment after 30 years of meticulous planning.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep18.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter

Ray Tierney takes office as Suffolk County DA in January 2022 and makes Gilgo Beach his first priority. He assembles an inter agency task force with full FBI cooperation. Sixteen months later, Rex Heuermann is in handcuffs.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep17.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter

Mari Gilbert forced the search that found the Gilgo Beach bodies. She called police, called the press, and stood on Ocean Parkway with signs until they looked. On July 23, 2016, her daughter Sarra stabbed her 227 times. She never lived to see the arrest.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep16.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter

Three Suffolk County officials went to federal prison for conspiracy and obstruction. The DA, the police chief, and the head of anti corruption covered up an assault and blocked the FBI from a serial murder investigation for over a decade.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep15.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter

James Burke was the highest ranking police official in Suffolk County. He blocked the FBI from the Gilgo Beach investigation, denied subpoenas for cell tower records, then beat a handcuffed man inside a precinct and enlisted the DA to cover it up.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep14.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter

Joel Rifkin killed 17 sex workers in New York. Not one was reported missing. When the Gilgo Beach remains surfaced, the chief of detectives told the press the killer does not pose a threat to the community. His reasoning: the victims were sex workers.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep13.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter

A K-9 unit searching for Shannan Gilbert finds remains wrapped in burlap on December 11, 2010. Two days later, three more within a quarter mile. By spring 2011, ten sets of remains along one stretch of highway.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep12.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter

A Microsoft Word file labeled HK2002-04, created in 2000 and deleted from the hard drive. Forensically recovered from unallocated space on Heuermann's laptop. Inside: four categories. Problems. Supplies. Dump Sites. Targets.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep11.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter

Rex Heuermann killed eight women over 17 years. He strangled them in his childhood home at 105 First Avenue in Massapequa Park while his wife and kids were out of town, wrapped their bodies in burlap, and dumped them along a desolate stretch of Ocean Parkway on Long Island's South Shore. Then he went back to designing buildings for American Airlines, Target, and Nike. Nobody came looking for the women he killed.When the bodies were finally discovered in December 2010, Suffolk County's top detective told the press the killer "did not pose a threat to the community" because the victims were sex workers. The cop running the investigation ended up in federal prison for beating a handcuffed man in an interrogation room. The district attorney who covered it up went to federal prison too. The FBI had narrowed the suspect pool to a few blocks of Massapequa Park by 2012, but they were shut out of the case for three years because of internal corruption.A roommate of one of the victims looked Heuermann in the face and described him to detectives as an "ogre" driving a Chevy Avalanche. Nobody followed up for 12 years. A mother named Mari Gilbert spent years demanding police find her missing daughter, and her search is what led to the discovery of all the other bodies along Ocean Parkway. She was murdered before she ever saw an arrest.On April 8, 2026, Heuermann stood in Suffolk County Court and pleaded guilty to seven murders. He admitted to an eighth. He showed no emotion.Rex: The Gilgo Beach Architect is a 25-episode investigative series produced by Neural Broadcast Network.

At 4:51 AM on May 1, 2010, Shannan Gilbert called 911 and said someone was trying to kill her. The call lasted 22 minutes. She fled into the night and was never seen alive again. The search for Shannan led to finding every other body on Ocean Parkway.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep10.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter

Maureen Brainard Barnes was 25, a single mother of two from Norwich, Connecticut. She was the first of the Gilgo Four to disappear in 2007 but the last to be formally charged to Heuermann in January 2024.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep9.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter

Amber Costello's roommate Dave Schaller came face to face with the killer and described him as an ogre driving a green Chevrolet Avalanche. He gave that description to police in 2010. The tip sat in files for 12 years.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep8.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter

Megan Waterman was 22, from Scarborough, Maine, and the mother of a 4 year old daughter she called three times a day. She traveled by bus to New York, checked into a Holiday Inn, and was last seen leaving at 1:30 AM on June 6, 2010.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep7.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter

After Melissa Barthelemy disappeared, her 15 year old sister began receiving phone calls from a man using Melissa's cellphone. He taunted the family and said he was watching the body rot. The calls traced to cell towers 2,372 feet from Heuermann's Manhattan office.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep6.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter

Both women were dismembered. Both had remains found in two locations: inland Manorville and coastal Gilgo Beach. The geographic shift reveals a killer who recalibrated his methods after a hunter's dog disrupted his first disposal ground.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep5.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter

For 27 years she was known only as Fire Island Jane Doe. Karen Vergata was 34, from Hell's Kitchen, survived by two sons who were adopted before her death. No missing person report was ever filed.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep4.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter

Sandra Costilla was 28, from Trinidad and Tobago, and the mother of a 5 year old son when she was strangled in November 1993. She is the earliest known victim, killed three decades before DNA connected her to the architect from Massapequa Park.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep3.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter

A 15-mile barrier island highway built in the 1930s became a serial killer's dumping ground. Dense brush, no cameras, no streetlights, and fewer than 250 year round residents made Ocean Parkway the place where bodies could sit 20 feet from the road for years.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep2.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter

A 62-year-old architect from Massapequa Park who commuted to Manhattan, raised a family, and built a client list that included Nike and American Airlines. Inside his childhood home: nearly 300 guns, a basement vault, and a planning document for serial murder.All sources cited in this episode are available at https://nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-architect/episode/ep1.About the Neural Broadcast NetworkNBN is a technology-first media company engineering global IP from the public record. Court filings, forensic evidence, government documents, and primary source journalism, produced through AI-native workflows that let the record speak for itself.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://nbn.fm/newsletter