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New information about the unidentified Gilgo Beach murders victim known only as “Asian Doe” is expected to be released on Monday.
Suffolk County District Attorney’s office announced that authorities will hold a press conference at 10am ET to “update the public as to the ongoing investigations being conducted by the Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation Task Force.”
DA Raymond Tierney told Newsday that a new sketch will be released of the unidentified Asian male whose skeletal remains were uncovered along Ocean Parkway, Long Island, in April 2011.
“We’re hoping to disseminate them in the Asian community and we’re hoping maybe someone will remember a person who looked like him that disappeared in the time frame when he died,” Tierney said.
Asian Doe is one of 11 victims whose remains were found along Gilgo Beach.
Suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann, 61, has been charged with the murders of five of the 11 victims, including four female sex workers known as the Gilgo Four who disappeared between 2007 and 2010. He is also charged with the murder of a sixth victim – Sandra Costilla – whose body was found in another area in 1993. He has pleaded not guilty.
Gilgo Beach killings: A timeline of the investigation
Read on for a complete timeline of the Gilgo Beach killings:
Katie Hawkinson16 September 2024 15:00
Inside Rex Heuermann’s six murder charges
Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann was charged with the brutal murders of two more women in June whose remains were found over two decades ago after authorities found a damning document in which he discussed his crimes in “excruciating detail”.
Heuermann faces a total of six murder charges from cases spanning from 1993 to 2011.
Andrea Cavallier covered the case as it unfolded.
James Liddell16 September 2024 14:36
Newly-rendered images of ‘Asian Doe’ to be released after study of victim’s skull
The Suffolk County District Attorney said that newly-rendered images and information about an unidentified male victim found at Gilgo Beach will be published on Monday morning.
District Attorney Ray Tierney said that forensic anthropologists have studied the skull of the victim known as “Asian Doe” to render new images of what they might have looked like at the time of their death.
“We’re trying to be scientific about it,” Tierney told Newsday. “They start with the skull, the way his brow is shaped, the way his chin is shaped, the nasal cavity and they can approximate what he would have looked like with flesh and skin.”
The DA hopes to disseminate the newly rendered images out to “the Asian community” in a bid to help identify the male, he said. It comes 13 years after police released a basic sketch of the victim in 2011.
Tierney and other members of the Gilgo Beach Task Force will release the new information at a 10am ET news conference at the Suffolk County Police Academy in Brentwood.
James Liddell16 September 2024 14:28
Who is suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann?
It was over 14 months ago when police came knocking on the door of FDNY firefighter Etienne de Villiers’ home.
For 30 years, he just thought his neighbor was “creepy”. Then he learned he was the Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect.
On July 13 2023, investigators swooped on Manhattan architect and married father-of-two Rex Heuermann and arrested him for a string of murders that had terrorized the Long Island community of Gilgo Beach for the past decade.
Rachel Sharp takes a deep dive into the background of the suspected Gilgo Beach murderer.
James Liddell16 September 2024 14:23
Original police sketch of unidentified male victim known as ‘Asian Doe’
James Liddell16 September 2024 14:18
New information to be revealed about Gilgo Beach homicide victim, Suffolk County DA says
James Liddell16 September 2024 14:14