Authorities to release new information about Gilgo Beach victim and investigation

The Gilgo Beach Task Force is expected to make an announcement Monday regarding a murder victim in Gilgo Beach and its ongoing homicide investigations.

A press conference will be held at 10 a.m.

Rex Heuermann has been charged with six of the Gilgo Beach murders. Investigators found 10 more bodies during a search for missing sex worker Shannan Gilbert on a beach on Long Island’s South Shore.

He was initially charged with the murders of women known as the “Gilgo Four” — Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes and Amber Costello — whose bodies were found covered in burlap in December 2010, according to court records.

In this July 20, 2023 file photo, police and crime scene investigators continue to search the home of Gilgo Beach murder suspect Rex Heuermann in Massapequa Park, New York.

Howard Schnapp/Newsday RM via Getty Images, ARCHIVES

In this July 18, 2023, file photo, evidence is removed from the home of suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann in Massapequa Park, New York.

Newsday via Getty Images, ARCHIVES

Earlier this year, investigators charged Heuermann with the murders of two other women: the 2003 murder of Jessica Taylor, whose remains were found in Gilgo Beach and Manorville, and the 1993 murder of Sandra Costilla, whose remains were found in North Sea, Long Island, in 1993.

In this handout provided by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office, Rex Heuermann poses for his booking photo on July 14, 2023.

Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office via Getty Images, FILE

Heuermann has pleaded not guilty to their murders.