Rex Heuermann

Rex Heuermann is a film based on the real-life Gilgo Beach serial killings, a series of murders that occurred on Long Island, New York, from 1993 to 2010. The case attracted national attention in late 2010 and 2011 when police, searching for missing woman Shannan Gilbert, discovered the remains of ten victims along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach and in nearby areas of Suffolk and Nassau counties. Four victims—Melissa Barthelemy, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Megan Waterman, and Amber Lynn Costello—were found in December 2010 in close proximity and became known as the "Gilgo Four." Six additional sets of remains were located in March and April 2011, several of which were later linked to earlier unsolved cases.