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John Bittrolff (born July 1, 1966) is an American convicted murderer and former suspect in the Gilgo Beach serial killings case. In July 2014, he was charged with the murders of Rita Tangredi and Colleen McNamee. He was also a suspect in the murder of a third woman, Sandra Costilla, prior to the capture of alleged serial killer Rex Heuermann.
July 14, 2023 at 1:09 PM. A New York City architect has been arrested in connection with the Gilgo Beach murders, a series of killings of mostly young women that confounded investigators on Long ...
John Ray, an attorney who has represented the families of some of the Gilgo Beach victims, said he had concerns about the case against Bittrolff from the beginning.
Bittrolff was dismissed as Gilgo Beach suspect months before Manhattan architect Rex Heuermann was arrested in July 2023 and charged with murder in the deaths of four women whose bodies were found ...
The Gilgo Beach serial killings were part of a series of murders spanning from the early 1990s until 2011. Many of the victims' remains were found over a period of months in 2010 and 2011 during a police search of the area along Ocean Parkway, a road near the remote beach town of Gilgo on Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
People suspected of having murdered three or more victims, but whose confirmed murders (if any) are lower than three, as well as groups of murders suspected but not confirmed to be the work of a serial killer, and people convicted of serial murder, but with serious doubt as to their actual guilt (such as those convicted through confessions made under torture).
On May 4, the case was scheduled to go to trial in July 2018. [31] The trial finally began on January 7, 2019, in a San Bernardino court, with both sides making opening statements. [4] On June 10, 2019, a San Bernardino County jury found Merritt guilty of murdering the McStay family. [32]
Another delay is expected this month in the murder trial of an Abilene father and son accused of killing their neighbor over a dispute about a mattress in 2018, a court official said this week.