'I Don't Think He Knows How To Be Sorry': A Sit Down With Gilgo Victim's Family
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Arresting podcasts.
Rex Heuermann's victims finally received a measure of justice last month. The deranged former architect spent decades murdering sex workers and discarding their brutalized remains around Gilgo Beach, Long Island. After pleading guilty, 62-year-old Heuermann was sentenced last month to more than three life sentences in prison for eight murders. It was years after investigators blew up the married father's double life by swiftly apprehending him on a midtown Manhattan street. Anguished relatives of the young women he killed finally had the chance to address Heuermann June 17th at the sentencing.
Who were Rex Heuermann’s victims and what was the case outcome?
They shared with the world their torment of living without answers for years. This week on The Trial USA, we bring you a special interview from Daily Mail reporters Rachel Sharp and Ruth Buschinski with the family of Gilgo Beach victim Megan Waterman, a 22-year-old Maine native who was killed by Heuermann in 2010. Elizabeth Miserv was Megan's aunt. She helped raise her, and she was among a group of victim relatives who spent years pushing law enforcement to solve the Gilgo Beach case. She's joined today by her niece, Liliana Waterman. Liliana is Megan's daughter, who was just three years old when her mom disappeared. In this episode, you'll hear their story of pain and perseverance and what it was like to finally see Heuermann face consequences.
I'm Kayla Brantley, and this is The Trial USA. We'll be back in a moment.
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Tell us about Megan. Tell us, you know, how you want people to know her. What was she like? Megan was tough.
I think she protected her brother a lot of the times. Cousins too. If people were going to give them a hard time, she was going to be right there sticking up for them. She was very spunky. She had a great sense of humor. She got in trouble a lot. But it was just because she liked to get a rise out of people. It wasn't because she was vicious or something. She found everything amusing. But if you were on the other end of it, you probably didn't. She really didn't mean any malice by the things she did. Megan grew up near me in Maine. She was raised by my mother. So my mother is her grandmother. And Megan spent a lot of time at my house. I had a son just a little bit younger than her. Were they very close as well?
Yeah. So I come from 10 children. And in our family, our cousins are like our first best friends and like siblings. So my mom wanted Megan to be that way. So all cousins got together. And while raising Lily, I've made sure that she spent a lot of time with her cousins too.
Yeah. Tell us a little bit about what she was like as a child then and as a teenager.
If you dared her, she would take the dare. In the first grade, they were in the pool swimming in class and the kids in the pool, because they knew her personality would not say no to anything, dared her to push this teacher in the pool and she did it. And the teacher was fully clothed. Of course, it caused lots of laughter, except by the teacher. People dared her to do a lot of things or asked her. She was the voice for a lot of people because she was going to get stuff done. She was quite a character. Most of my funny things of remembering her were kind of doing naughty things, um, She didn't want to go home, so she climbed way up high in this tree. And my sister was telling her, we're going to call the police.
And she said, all right, go ahead. They called the police on her. She wouldn't come down for my mom, who was her grandmother again. So it's hard when you're older and raising, especially a child with so much energy.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:03–0:41
2
Who were Rex Heuermann’s victims and what was the case outcome?
0:41–10:03
3
How did Megan Waterman’s family describe her personality and childhood?
10:03–30:16
4
What led Megan into sex work and was her pimp ever charged?
30:16–47:59
5
What memories and early impressions does Liliana Waterman have of her mother?
47:59–50:57
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