“We’re not going to try it in the press … we will defend this case in a court of law.” “The press has convicted my client without seeing a shred of evidence,” Brown said. Heuermann, 59, is also the prime suspect in the disappearance and killing of the fourth victim, according to a bail application from prosecutors, but has yet to be charged in that case.īrown, Heuermann’s defense attorney, said outside the court on Tuesday his client is innocent and looks “forward to his day in court.” Victims’ families are “all supporting” prosecutors’ efforts and are “interested and engaged” with the case, Tierney said. Family members of some of the victims were in court on Tuesday, Tierney said during the news conference.
“I did not do this,” his court appointed-attorney, Michael Brown, said Heuermann told him. He has pleaded not guilty in the killings of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Lynn Costello. The hearing comes three weeks after Heuermann was arrested and charged with murder in the killings of three of the “Gilgo Four,” a group of women whose remains were found along a short stretch of Long Island’s Gilgo Beach in 2010. The judge issued a protective order prohibiting the release of copies of case evidence and scheduled another court hearing for September 27. There is a “massive amount of material” and information from the investigation to turn over and prosecutors will continue handing over evidence “on a rolling basis,” Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney told reporters after court on Tuesday. Complying with a discovery request in the case, prosecutors handed over evidence to Heuermann’s attorneys, including hard drives and discs that included 2,500 pages of documents, DNA and autopsy reports of the victims, surveillance information and notes and photographs from the medical examiner. Heuermann appeared in court Tuesday in handcuffs, wearing khaki pants and a gray suit jacket. Rex Heuermann appears before Judge Timothy Mazzei in Suffolk County Court on August 1, 2023.
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