According to the lawyer defending the Gilgo Beach murder victims’ families, the claimed serial killer, Rex Heuermann may have had a female accomplice for the 3 murders.

Rex Heuermann allegedly killed 3 prostitutes on Long Island with assistance from an unidentified accomplice, according to attorney John Ray, who represents the families of the deceased Shannan Gilbert and Jessica Taylor. Heuermann has not yet been formally linked to Gilbert or Taylor’s deaths.

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Heuermann, 59, is accused of the murders of three women who went missing between 2007 and 2010 and is the leading suspect in a fourth homicide. The married father of two has had his DNA recorded into a state database, and his suspected method of operation is being compared to cases during the time he was supposedly active at Gilgo Beach.

Ray’s hypothesis is based on the body of an unidentified 10-month-old baby girl, whose blanket-wrapped remains were discovered on Long Island in 2011. He asserted that someone “who has not yet been officially connected to Rex Heuermann” would have thought to wrap her body in such a manner.

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He told the US Sun:  “It’s that kind of thing that, if you’re such a depraved murderer, you don’t take time to do. We also believe that some of the victims could’ve been lured by a woman.”

The baby’s bones were discovered seven miles from the mother’s body, who had been identified as ‘Jane Doe 3’. Up to 18 people were killed in the Gilgo Beach serial killings, which occurred between 1996 and 2011.

Officials from the Suffolk County Police have not responded to Ray’s allegations on whether Rex Heuermann had an accomplice or if he is being investigated for the baby’s death.

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On a related note, Ray also claimed, he started getting unsettling phone calls from January of this year, from a man and a woman to his home, his family, and his law company. The calls, which were similar, stopped last week.

“The same language is used, the same tape recordings are used, it’s the same eerie voices and crazy sounds that are used in every one of those calls,” he said. “They play news reports from the Shannon Gilbert case from sometime around 2011 or 2012 and make noises in the background at the same time. Then they say some nasty things or weird things to let us know that, whoever it was, they wanted to make sure we connected the call to the Gilgo situation.”