Prosecutors have revealed new charges in the long-standing case of three young women who disappeared in the early 1990s on Long Island. The bodies of the victims were found strangled, beaten, and left in similar poses in the Long Island brush. Rex Heuermann, already accused in the Gilgo Beach serial killings, is now implicated in the death of one of the women, Sanda Costilla. This development suggests that Heuermann may have started targeting victims more than a decade earlier than previously believed.
The new charges have raised questions about the conviction of John Bittrolff, who is currently serving time for the murders of the other two women, Rita Tangredi and Colleen McNamee. Bittrolff's defense team has criticized the forensic evidence used in his conviction and argues that the new charges against Heuermann further support Bittrolff's claim of innocence.
