The woman was identified as Tanya Jackson, and her young child was named Tatiana, Nassau County DA Anne Donnelly said on Wednesday.
Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder and Homicide Det. Lt. Stephen Fitzpatrick are expected to speak in Mineola, a spokeswoman says.
Wife Asa Ellerup doesn't have "the same emotional attachment to the house" since the search warrants, attorney Bob Macedonio says.
"I have given Rex the benefit of the doubt, as we all deserve.” - Asa Ellerup
He did not realize it until recently, The New York Post reported.
Part of her remains were found on Fire Island in 1996, while her skull was found on Tobay Beach in 2011.
The irony is three of Asa Ellerup's hairs were found on victims, John Ray says. While her lawyer balked at allegations she is a suspect.
Keith Jesperson told Rex Heuermann to confess; he took "it to heart" before complaining about his jail conditions, The Daily Mail reported.
A report said the documentary will be filmed throughout the trial of Rex Heuermann and after the trial’s outcome.
Rex Heuermann, considered no different than other inmates in terms of visits, met his estranged wife Wednesday. Here's the sheriff's rules.
Key players in Suffolk police's investigation, victims' family members, and former acquaintances of Rex Heuermann will speak.
Asa Ellerup, the estranged wife of Rex Heuermann, visited him at the Suffolk County Correctional Facility in Riverside Wednesday.
New evidence and witnesses could link Rex Heuermann to Shannan Gilbert and Karen Vergata, attorney John Ray says.
In 1989, she was found, her legs tied at the ankles, a towel and a rope around her neck, in Freeport — 21 years before Gilgo Beach.
Authorities are scrutinizing over new information that may link the Gilgo Beach serial killings with a missing South Carolina woman.
He called the practice a heinous, often misunderstood crime that goes undetected when communities "do not know the signs to look for."
He's requested religious services, reading material, and has a visit other than his lawyer.
"He will continue to be evaluated periodically. His housing and security protocols have not changed.” - Sheriff Errol Toulon
PHOTOS HERE: The family released never-before-seen photos of what the home they shared with him looks like now.
Prosecutors want to compare the sample to already obtained DNA evidence from discarded pizza. But defense is opposing the request.
"Our hearts go out to the victims' families, their children, parents, friends, but now is the time to fight for justice." - Nancy Grace
The North Shore High School alumnus recalled his friend as a "creative" and "empathetic" person.
"It's an awful thing to know there is somebody around like that.": Andrew Ragona
“I mean, she was only in her early 30s — ‘Davis Park Jane Doe.’”: Jayne Robinson, Davis Park Civic Association president
Investigators on Friday morning identified the Gilgo Beach victim referred to as "Jane Doe No. 7" as Karen Vergata.
"There's a misconception that somehow we can screen out the bad guys, like there's a difference between a good buyer and a bad buyer."
"We're prepared to go forward, defend this case in a court of law, and we will go to trial." — Rex Heuermann's attorney.
To his jailers, "this is just another individual who's in our custody, and we may just have to watch him a little bit more closely."
When money is exchanged, "people in prostitution have very little control over what actually transpires in the room," advocate says.
Two incarcerated sex workers say they recorded convos with Rex Heuermann. One of his employees says workers "locked their doors."
“Five years, 10 years, 20 to 30 years – when you think that they'll never make an arrest – you wake up one day, and they arrested somebody."
A former classmate says Rex Heuermann purposely tried to hurt her. Police used K-9 units to further search his home.
Strangulation is about victim's controlled agony, while taunting is about torturing family members, expert says.
Dennis Rader says he and Gilgo suspect Rex Heuermann are much alike, including living in a neighborhood "undetected," according to a report.
Massapequa Park's Rex Heuermann is charged in the murder of three sex workers whose remains were found more than a decade ago.
A source close to the investigation told CNN it's been believed since spring that he was killing the women there.
Rex Heuermann routinely burned his garbage and even saw him digging holes in his backyard around 1 a.m., a neighbor says.
It's part of an abnormal sexual arousal pattern, where there's a fusion of sex and aggression, which is eroticized, expert says.
Rex Heuermann worked a $400,000 job renovating the fourth floor of the New York City landmark, according to city records.
Investigators have been meticulously pulling evidence from the property, including a Chevy pickup, since last week.
