Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann set to be hit with fifth murder charge

According to several reports, suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann has been charged with another murder this week.

Heuermann, 60, is expected to appear in court in Riverhead on Thursday for his arraignment. Newsday.

It comes after investigators involved in the Gilgo Beach cases began searching a wooded area in Manorville, New York, in April.

Heuermann was previously charged with the murder of four female sex workers.

He was arrested in July and initially charged with the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, and Amber Lynn Costello, 27.

In February, he was also charged with the murder of 25-year-old Maureen Brainard-Barnes.

Heuermann, an architect, has pleaded not guilty to the murders.

The searches come after the father of two’s home in Massapequa was raided following the discovery of the bodies.

The women were found wrapped in burlap more than a decade ago and buried along the remote stretch of Ocean Parkway on Long Island’s south shore.

Heuermann has pleaded not guilty to all counts and is currently in jail awaiting trial.

The women’s remains were discovered during the search for 23-year-old Shannan Gilbert, a New Jersey escort who disappeared in May 2010 after a panicked 911 call.

The first victim, 24-year-old Melissa Barthelemy, was discovered by Suffolk County police on December 11, 2010. The body of Megan Waterman, 22, of Maine, was found two days later.

Heuermann is also accused of the murders of Amber Costello (left) and Maureen Brainard-Barnes (right)

Her remains were found along the same stretch of coast in December 2011 – and it was her body that led police to the discovery of the ‘Gilgo Four’.

No one has ever been charged in Gilbert’s death and police said it may have been an accident, but her family believes she was murdered.

The women were among 11 found between 2010 and 2011 on the deserted stretch of shoreline near Heuermann’s Long Island Home.

All of the victims worked as escorts who advertised themselves on Craigslist.

Heuermann was linked to the killings by DNA on the burlap used to transport the body, which was compared to samples taken from a pizza crust and napkin discarded outside his Manhattan architectural office, police said.

According to law enforcement, the samples were a 99.96 percent match.

Before DNA testing, police said they were alerted to Heuermann as a potential suspect after a witness linked Heuermann’s Chevrolet Avalanche to Costello’s killing.

The car was then linked to Heuermann’s cell phone records, which allegedly linked him to locations linked to the murders.

The indictment stated that Heuermann used several burner phones to contact each of his victims.

Police also accused Heuermann of using Barthelemy’s phone to make harassing calls to her family from his office.

Her sister Melissa told how she was bombarded with threatening phone calls from the killer who bragged about the murder and monitored her movements.