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00:00 Gilbo Beach suspect Rex Huerman reads about his case in newspapers and refuses visit requests

00:05 from true crime fans.

00:06 Gilbo Beach suspect Rex Huerman has been in jail since July on charges of killing three

00:11 women.

00:12 The New York Times reported Huerman receives visit requests from true crime fans and journalists.

00:17 Investigators have also been interviewing jailed women on their encounters with him,

00:20 NYT reported.

00:21 The man suspected of killing at least four women whose remains were later found buried

00:25 on a Long Island beach has spent much of his time behind bars reading about his case and

00:30 refusing visit requests from journalists and true crime fans, according to the Suffolk

00:34 County Sheriff.

00:35 Rex Huerman, 59, has been in the Suffolk County Jail since July.

00:39 He is charged with the murders of three women who went missing in 2009 and 2010 and has

00:45 pleaded not guilty to all counts.

00:47 Sheriff Errol Tulin gave the New York Times insight into Huerman's daily routine in jail.

00:52 Tulin said Huerman is often brought to a secluded section of the exercise yard for an hour at

00:56 a time where he walks laps alone.

00:58 The Times also reported that Huerman reads books from the jail's library and watches

01:02 a TV controlled by jail guards outside his cell.

01:05 According to the Times, Huerman has not received any visits from his wife and children.

01:10 Authorities are far from finished with their investigation into the Gilbo Beach homicides.

01:14 In total, 11 victims' remains have been found at or near the Gilbo Beach area.

01:18 First in August, investigators identified one of the victims as Karen Vergara, who disappeared

01:23 in 1996, though authorities have not said whether Huerman is suspected in her death.

01:28 The Times reported that investigators have been interviewing female jail inmates in Long

01:33 Island who have previously worked as escorts.

01:35 All three Gilbo Beach victims Huerman has been charged with killing were escorts, and

01:39 authorities suspect that Huerman may have frequented many sex workers in Suffolk County.

01:44 The county's district attorney, Ray Tierney, even said during a July press conference that

01:48 authorities moved quickly to arrest Huerman once they realized he was seeing escorts and

01:52 potentially endangering them.

01:54 "We learned the defendant was using these alternate identities and alternate instruments

01:58 to continue to patronize sex workers, which of course made us very nervous," Tierney

02:02 said.

02:03 In the months since Huerman's arrest, jail officials have interviewed about 120 female

02:08 inmates so far, 10 of whom have said they encountered Huerman in various ways, the Times

02:12 reported.

02:13 According to the newspaper, some received online date requests from Huerman and others

02:17 met up with him in person.

02:19 Tuland told the Times that two of those 10 women reported having frightening intimate

02:23 encounters with Huerman, though neither were injured.

02:25 Huerman's defense attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.

02:30 Gilbo Beach killings suspect Rex Huerman has petitioned the court to reclaim more than

02:35 280 guns that were seized from his home in July so he can sell them and financially help

02:39 his family while in jail.

02:41 The guns, which defense attorney Sabato Caponi said have significant financial value, could

02:45 be sold to provide a temporary but urgently needed respite from the financial hardships

02:50 afflicting the Huerman family.

02:52 The motion filed last Thursday states, "The firearms were seized in July when Suffolk

02:56 County police searched their home in a wantonly destructive and reckless manner," the motion

03:01 adds.

03:02 In as much as Rex Huerman remains incarcerated and his pistol license has been temporarily

03:06 suspended, this court should order the return of the seized property to a person designated

03:11 by Rex Huerman, individual or licensed gun dealer, who may legally possess the items,

03:16 Caponi wrote.

03:17 Huerman, a 59-year-old architectural consultant who lived with his family in Masopeco Park

03:22 in Nassau County, has been behind bars since his arrest in July on three charges of murder.

03:27 He has pleaded not guilty to the killings of Melissa Barthelomy in 2009 and Megan Waterman

03:32 and Amber Costello in 2010.

03:34 The case stems from the discovery of nearly a dozen sets of human remains along Long Island's

03:39 south shore between 2010 and 2011.

03:42 Four of the victims were found buried near each other off Ocean Parkway in Gilgo Beach,

03:46 and they were dubbed the "Gilgo Four."

03:48 Barthelomy, Waterman, and Costello make up three of the "Giglo Four," and Huerman is

03:53 the prime suspect in the death of the fourth.

03:56 Maureen Brainard Barnes, Authorities Have Said.

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