Suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann of Gilgo Beach is expected to be charged in the murders of two other women, according to reports.
Multiple law enforcement sources told CNN that the 60-year-old will be charged with murder on Thursday in connection with the deaths of Jessica Taylor and Valerie Mack.
The decapitated and handless body of Taylor, 20, was discovered in 2000 in the woods of Manorville, New York.
In 2011, the rest of her remains were discovered more than 40 miles away, near Gilgo Beach on Long Island.
Mack had disappeared near Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 2000 at the age of 24, and was also found dead in Manorville, while parts of her were later discovered on Gilgo Beach.
Heuermann, who has pleaded not guilty to the death of four womenwill appear in state court in Riverhead on Thursday.
Heuermann, who has pleaded not guilty in the deaths of four women, will appear in court in Riverhead on Thursday
Multiple law enforcement sources told CNN that the 60-year-old will be charged with murder on Thursday in connection with the deaths of Jessica Taylor (left) and Valerie Mack (right).
In April this year, detectives were seen searching the woods near where body parts of the two were found.
Search teams with K9s were seen searching the wooded area in Manorville for three days.
Last month, detectives also returned to search the alleged serial killer’s Long Island home.
Officers had found a cache of weapons during an initial search after his arrest last summer.
Heuermann 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.
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, an architect, has pleaded not guilty to all counts and is currently in jail awaiting trial. A date for the trial has not yet been set.
The Gilgo 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.
In April, officials searched an area in Manorville where the partial remains of Taylor and Mack were found more than two decades ago.
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 officials, the samples were a 99.96 percent match.
Police said they were alerted to Heuermann as a potential suspect after a witness linked Heuermann’s Chevrolet Avalanche to Costello’s killing.
The women known as the ‘Gilgo Four’ were discovered near Heuermann’s home on Long Island. However, other bodies – including those of sex workers – have also been found in the area
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.
Vess Mitev, a lawyer for Heuermann’s two adult children, said the family was closely monitoring developments.
“The hearing is another milestone in this macabre saga, in which they remain unfortunate bystanders,” he said.