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THE lawyer of suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann has defended his client after a sick list of internet searches was revealed.
Heuermann’s attorney, Michael Brown, spoke out on Tuesday after a court hearing where prosecutors presented the alleged Google search history of the former Manhattan architectural consultant.
Investigators called the search history “sadistic,” saying they found several chilling phrases that the accused murderer sought more information for online, per Fox News.
The searches were allegedly made from a burner account that Heuermann, 59, created under the alias of Thomas Hawk.
They included phrases such as “girl with face beat up,” “Asian twink tied up,” “torture redhead porn,” and “chubby 10-year-old girl crying” among others, according to prosecutors.
At least 200 other searches were allegedly made by Heuermann that requested more information on other widely known serial killers and the Gilgo Beach case itself, which began in 2010.
Heuermann was charged on Tuesday with a fourth count of murder for the death of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, whose remains were found buried on the beach along with Melissa Barthelemy, 24; Megan Waterman, 22; and Amber Costello, 27, and several others.
Heuermann was already charged and pleaded not guilty to the murders of Barthelemy, Waterman, and Costello, and pleaded not guilty to the fourth charge of murder concerning Brainard-Barnes.
Brown addressed the search history while speaking with reporters after the fourth charge was solidified, claiming that Heuermann seemingly sought the info after watching graphic shows or movies.
“Searching the internet, ask yourselves what you search on your computers and your phones,” the attorney said.
“One thing leads to another – you see a show about something, you start searching, and they talk about how somebody got killed.”
“You start searching, and then they talk about another way, and you start searching,” Brown added.
“Think about if they looked at your own personal search history, how all of a sudden you’re guilty because of your search history?”
Brown also allegedly tried to brush off questions about a crucial new form of DNA testing that prosecutors presented as evidence against Heuermann.
The DNA testing has been noted as “cutting edge” by Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney, according to Fox News.
Tierney called it the “gold standard” of DNA testing.
As The U.S. Sun previously reported, investigators were able to match DNA from an unfinished pizza box that Heuermann tossed in the trash in the summer before his arrest on July 13, 2023.
The four charges against Heuermann would now seemingly resolve questions surrounding the deaths of the four women, eerily known as the “Gilgo Four.”
They are among a total of 11 bodies that police found spread across the Long Island beach after the harrowing 911 call from Shannan Gilbert over 10 years ago.
Giblert’s death was eventually declared an accident, but Brown and the Gilbert family lawyer, John Ray, aren’t so sure.
For more content about the ongoing case, check out The U.S. Sun’s exclusive coverage of why one lawyer says Heuermann’s wife should be a suspect in the Gilgo Beach murders after a saliva test.
The U.S. Sun also has the story on the chilling similarities noted between suspected Long Island serial killer, Heuermann, and another well-known murderer.
