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A retired FBI agent believes the methodical way suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann planned his alledged murders on Long Island makes him a "better" killer than Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of brutally stabbing four college students to death in Idaho in 2022.
Heuermann, 60, was arraigned Thursday in the deaths of two more women \- Jessica Taylor and Sandra Costilla - adding to the charges he already faces for allegedly killing four other women and leaving their remains along the Long Island shoreline over the past three decades.
Prosecutors said they uncovered a "planning document" on Heuermann's hard drive on how he carried out "his kills with excruciating detail."
Jennifer Coffindaffer, the retired FBI agent, wrote on X that Heuermann, an architect, "planned his murders so well."
"He outlined when, where and how. His detail is like a law enforcement Mini-operations plan, but for murder. I believe #BryanKohberger, if found guilty, was similar to RH, but RH was better, and there was less technology when he started so he got away with it for years and years," she said in the posting.
"But for the new task force, would he ever have been caught? I believe there are so many more. P.S. He studied those who studied serial killers. #LISK #GILGO," she added, linking to court documents that outlined Heuermann's blueprint for killing.
Prosecutors in Suffolk County said Heuermann deliberately hunted his victims.
"We allege that this document evinces the defendant's intent in committing the charged crimes, that his intent was, specifically, to locate these victims, to hunt them down and to bring them under his control and to kill them," District Attorney Ray Tierney said Thursday at a news conference.
Kohberger is accused of fatally stabbing University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, in an off-campus apartment they shared in the early morning of Nov. 13, 2022.
Autopsies of the victims showed that they had all been stabbed numerous times.
Heuermann is also charged in the killings of four other women - Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Amber Costello and Maureen Brainard-Barnes.
