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[FBI Columbia @FBIColumbia]

UPDATE: The Aiken County Sheriff's Office announced today that 4-year-old Javeayah Harris is believed to be deceased. Javeayah's parents, Johmarea Harris, 23, and Michilae Herring, 22, have been arrested in connection.

FBI Columbia is saddened by this tragic news and will continue to provide assistance as needed as the investigation progresses.

[FBI Columbia @FBIColumbia]

UPDATE from the Aiken County Sheriff's Office: The search for 4-year-old Javeayah Harris continues. Since the moment Javeayah was reported missing, an extensive and coordinated search effort was organized by the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office, which included multiple local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies surging resources. In missing persons investigations, the first several days involve ground and air searches, a neighborhood canvas, roadblocks, and many other tools and techniques. Our search has covered more than 5,000 acres. Despite these comprehensive and coordinated efforts, we have not located Javeayah. We have additionally conducted numerous interviews with this investigation to include her family.

In the coming days, our work will be less visible to the public. While organized search activities will be reduced, the search for Javeayah will not stop until we find her. Our forward mobile command operations will be scaling down as well as releasing roadblocks. If you see Javeayah, call 911 or tips can be called into [phone].

[FBI Columbia @FBIColumbia]

The Aiken County Sheriff's Office, the FBI, and more than a dozen law enforcement partners continue our search to find 4-year-old Javeayah Harris and bring her home. Azalea Outdoor donated space on digital billboards across the CSRA to assist in this investigation. Call 911 or our tipline at 803-502-5200 if you have information to help us find Javeayah.

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Alison Winter was Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann's therapist for almost 3 years. She had no license to practice...

For nearly three years, Alison Winter had extraordinary access to Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex A. Heuermann, counseling him each week at the Suffolk County jail in Riverhead.

A recent documentary revealed the Sayville-based family therapist was at the table when Heuermann confessed to his wife and daughter that he killed eight women and was present in the courtroom when he publicly admitted his guilt eight months later.

But Newsday found the woman who became the public face of Heuermann's counseling has never held a New York license to independently practice clinical social work and was herself facing felony charges when she heard the killer's confession.

Winter, 52, of East Northport, was arrested in November 2024 and charged with three counts of grand larceny, scheme to defraud and 14 counts of unauthorized practice of a profession, all felonies, charging documents show. Prosecutors said Winter had received $60,000 in reimbursements from Cigna and other insurance companies for claims filed since 2018 despite not holding a license.

Suffolk District Attorney Ray Tierney acknowledged his office’s pending charges against Winter — which are not related to her counseling of Heuermann and his family — when contacted by Newsday, but declined to discuss Winter or her case.

Defense attorney James Pascarella, of Mineola, who Winter hired to represent her following arraignment, did not respond to messages left for him with staff at two offices.

No record of license
Of the $60,000 in insurance reimbursements Winter received from 2018 to 2024, more than $50,000 was billed through Cigna, according to a criminal complaint charging her with second-degree grand larceny, a Class C felony carrying a maximum sentence of 15 years in state prison.

"Between November of 2018 and May [2024] — so about six years’ time — [Winter] did practice social work in the form of mental health counseling without a license," Assistant District Attorney Cory Neunzig said at her arraignment in First District Court in Central Islip on Nov. 26, 2024, according to a transcript of the proceeding obtained by Newsday.

For inclusion in Cigna’s network, masters level clinicians who practice independently must hold a state license, according to the company’s behavioral health provider’s manual. Receiving insurance reimbursements without a license constitutes healthcare fraud under state law.

The state’s Office of the Professions, which maintains an online database of active and inactive healthcare  licensees, lists no record of Winter holding a license. A spokesperson said the database is up to date.

Winter received her master's in social work from Adelphi University in 1999, the school confirmed.

Winter, who prosecutors said has no prior arrests, also received reimbursements through UnitedHealthcare and Medicare, court records show. She is due back in court July 21.

Melissa McCardle, a licensed clinical social worker and dean of the school of education and human services at Molloy University in Rockville Centre, said after receiving a master's degree psychotherapists must complete a licensing exam and work for three years under a licensed professional before applying for a licensed clinical social worker certification to practice independently.

"Nobody in New York State can practice psychotherapy as a social worker without a license," McCardle said, noting New York has among the most rigorous licensing standards in the country.

A sign that hung outside the Heritage Building at 200 Railroad Ave. in Sayville since at least September 2017 promoting Winter as a psychotherapist has been removed. Google lists the office as "permanently closed." But inside the building, which also hosts a chiropractor, law office and accounting firm, Winter’s name still appears on a wall near the main entrance and the door to Suite 4. Winter did not respond to knocks on the locked door on two occasions.

She also did not respond to phone messages left at the number on her door, a home phone number found on 2025 tax documents or a Ring doorbell camera at her East Northport home.

A man who later answered the door at Winter's home and identified himself as her son said he was unaware of any criminal case against his mother.

Heuermann documentaries
Dressed in black fur, her eyes hidden under dark sunglasses, Winter spoke with a Newsday reporter outside Heuermann’s Massapequa Park home following his guilty plea April 8, two weeks before she first appeared in the Peacock documentary series about the family.

Winter identified herself as the family therapist and said she’d been counseling Heuermann, his ex-wife Asa Ellerup and their daughter Victoria Heuermann for nearly three years.

"They’re good people. They’re accepting this and struggling like everyone else," Winter said of Heuermann’s family, who she accompanied to the plea hearing along with their attorney, Robert Macedonio, of Islip Terrace.

Macedonio, a paid consultant on the Peacock series that prominently featured Winter in its most recent episode, told the filmmakers he believed the family "needed professional help with the psychological issues that they’re dealing with."

"So I brought in Alison Winter who’s a therapist that my partner and I have known for 20-plus years and works with a lot of our clients," Macedonio said in the most recent episode of the Emmy-nominated series. "We trust her."

Winter introduced herself as a "psychotherapist and family counselor," the cameras capturing a certificate hanging in her office from a Harvard Medical School continuing education program. Scenes with her were filmed between August 2025 and April, the documentary notes.

Winter assumes what could be considered a leading role in her episode of the series, "The Confession," which was executive produced by rapper turned media mogul Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson.

Macedonio said he could not comment for this story. He did not respond to subsequent text messages asking if he was previously aware Winter was unlicensed and facing criminal charges.

Personal belongings
Suffolk County Sheriff Errol D. Toulon Jr. has counted the therapist among the few people with access to Heuermann and in an interview with Newsday following his sentencing said she was one of the individuals the killer gave his personal belongings to before being transferred to state prison to begin serving his life sentence. Items from the killer's past have been offered as "murderabilia" by others for tens of thousands of dollars online.

In the Peacock series, Winter offered her opinions on the psychological state of Heuermann and his family members. She detailed how he told her he planned and carried out the murders and the ways Ellerup and Victoria Heuermann have each coped since his July 2023 arrest.

"When I first met Asa she was broken," Winter says in the episode. "In total shock ... denial."

One scene depicts Winter writing an email to famed FBI profiler John Douglas, whose book "Mindhunter" inspired its own streaming series and occupied a space on Rex Heuermann’s bookshelf when Suffolk police raided his home in 2023. Winter and the filmmakers also visited Douglas in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where they discussed her counseling of the killer.

"What you were able to was amazing," Douglas told her. "Getting to interview not only the subject in the case, but the family. I’ve never done that before."

NewsNation reported in 2023 that Ellerup and her two children were paid $1 million and Macedonio was paid $400,000 for their involvement in the Peacock series, figures that have since been repeated in reporting by other media outlets, including The New York Post, which produced the documentary along with Jackson’s G-Unit Films and Television and Texas Crew Productions. Variety reported exclusively in May that Peacock and Jackson are now developing a scripted series based on the documentary, potentially extending the streamer's financial relationship with the family and the notoriety of Winter.

Macedonio has said the money paid to his clients protected their livelihood after Heuermann, who owned a Manhattan architectural firm, was incarcerated.

Peacock executives managing press for the series did not offer comment after exchanging emails with a Newsday reporter. They also did not respond to an email asking if they were aware of Winter's arrest or if she was vetted before appearing in the series.

The documentary’s director, Jared P. Scott, and a representative for Jackson also did not respond to messages seeking comment.

Charges of "media exploitation"
Los Angeles-based victim rights advocate Gloria Allred, an attorney for relatives of several Heuermann victims, said when contacted by a reporter that she found it "very disturbing" Peacock did not note the criminal case against Winter when identifying her as a therapist in the Peacock series, saying "the public should have been made aware of" the charges.

The series and the money paid to Heuermann’s family and others had already been publicly scrutinized.

Benjamin Torres, the son of victim Valerie Mack, has filed a civil suit in Suffolk County court that seeks to reclaim the money paid to Heuermann’s family through the Peacock series, which it reduces to "media exploitation."

Heuermann’s criminal defense attorneys, Michael J. Brown and Danielle Coysh, distanced themselves from the Peacock series when asked about it following his June 17 sentencing. They declined to discuss Winter's involvement in the case.

@GrantParpan
Newsday's Robert Brodsky and John Asbury and NewsdayTV's Shari Einhorn contributed to this story.

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BREAKING: A missing 13-year-old Apache Junction girl who was the subject of a Turquoise Alert has been found safe.

The driver of a car Skyler Conville was seen getting into last week was taken into custody, police said.
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[Please Help Find Daniel @PleaseHelpFind4]

America's Son Candlelight Vigil: Five Years Later - From Pain To Purpose https://t.co/zVGxyjaa6Z

[Polk County Sheriff 🚔 Grady Judd @PolkCoSheriff]

On Friday, we proudly opened our new K-9 Training Center, dedicated to the memory of Deputy Matt Williams and his K-9 partner, Diogi, who gave their lives in the line of duty in 2006.

This facility will help train future generations of K-9 teams while honoring a legacy of courage, sacrifice, and service.

Thank you to our community, the Polk County Board of County Commissioners, and everyone who helped make this vision a reality. Your support ensures our deputies and K-9s have the resources they need to continue protecting Polk County for years to come. 💚🐾

#PCSO #PolkSheriff #K9Unit #neverforget

[🔥LadyJustice ⚖️ @Breannabanna80]

1823 Days⏳⚖️ #SummerWells Summer Wells missing from Rogersville, Tennessee June 15 ,2021. She’ was 5 yrs old with blonde hair and blue eyes, approx 3ft tall weighing 40 lbs when she went missing. She would now be 10!!! info please call 1-800-TBI-FIND Updated age progression photo added to post #MissingPerson #Tennessee 💜💜
😭 my heart is so heavy tonight!

[James English @jamesenglish0]

Going undercover and spending days with Christian Brueckner the Madeleine McCann number 1 suspect.

[Laura Ingle @lauraingle]

I Went to Rex Heuermann’s Las Vegas Timeshare. Police Are Still Looking at Similar Cases to Gilgo - new episode coming soon on my YouTube Channel;
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[DNA Doe Project @DnaDoeProject]

For nearly four decades, investigators have searched for the identity of a young woman whose remains were discovered buried in a vacant lot. Today, she has been identified as Sonya Alice Langan.

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[Catch_LISK @Catch_LISK]

Rex Heuermann corresponds with serial killer, reads grisly novels in jail, Suffolk sheriff says

Rex A. Heuermann is an avid reader of grisly novels who still gets weekly visits from his ex-wife and has corresponded with a convicted murderer in the three years he has been the most notorious person living in a Long Island jail.
The admitted Gilgo Beach serial killer has become a solitary figure behind bars, a large man trying to make his world as small as possible, jail officials said. He has not befriended other inmates,  officials said. He does not chitchat with correction officers. He does not attend religious services, support groups or classes. His only vice appears to be the cookies he buys from the jail commissary.
His disposition has also not changed since he arrived at Suffolk County’s Riverhead Correctional Facility, where Heuermann has spent more than 1,000 days in voluntary segregation after his arrest on July 13, 2023, and since April 8, when he pleaded guilty to strangling eight women during a 17-year killing spree, Suffolk Sheriff Errol D. Toulon Jr. said in an exclusive interview with Newsday at the Riverhead jail in May. 

"He’s shown no emotion this entire time that he’s been incarcerated," said Toulon, the official entrusted with keeping Heuermann safe in a facility that also serves hundreds of other prisoners and where Heuermann is awaiting sentencing. "No remorse, no, ‘What am I doing here?’ No, ‘I didn’t do this.’ No head against the bars, no head in his hands. He’s been very stoic."

Heuermann, 62, pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and acknowledged he had also killed an eighth in a case that shocked Long Island and the nation, both for the cruelty of the crimes and the shortcomings of Suffolk County law enforcement in the early years of the investigation. Suffolk Supreme Court Justice Timothy Mazzei is expected to sentence him to life in an upstate prison, without the possibility of parole, on June 17 in Riverhead.

"He will go off in a bus and come home in a body bag," Toulon said.
In April, he pleaded guilty to the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Amber Lynn Costello, Jessica Taylor, Valerie Mack and Sandra Costilla, and admitted to the uncharged killing of Karen Vergata.

Macabre fiction and thrillers
Heuermann was a Manhattan architect with a family. Now he spends most of his time in a 6-by-9-foot cell, the sheriff said.
"This is the weirdest individual I’ve ever dealt with in 44 years in this business," Toulon said, rolling out Heuermann's routine and hidden jail life.
For exercise, the Massapequa Park resident walks by himself in the jail’s recreation yard. "He won’t play basketball, he won’t do dips, he won’t do pushups," Toulon said. "I don’t think he’s that athletic."

Heuermann likes to read mostly macabre fiction and thrillers, according to Toulon. The titles of the books he has checked out of the jail’s library during his incarceration are chilling.

Some of the titles he has read include "Blood on the Beach," by Robin Stevenson and Sarah N. Harvey, "Portrait in Death," by J.D. Robb, "Secret Prey," by John Sandford, "The Dead Girl," by Melanie Thernstrom and "Heart of Evil," by Heather Graham.
"He’s not reading books about self-help," Toulon said.
Heuermann has received very little mail during his incarceration, but one correspondent does stick out: Keith Hunter Jesperson, the "Happy Face Killer," who is serving a life sentence in Oregon for killing eight women. Jail officials do not read inmates’ mail, so it’s not known what the two killers have discussed.
"It just goes to show this network of killers in the United States that wants to communicate with each other because of the horrific crimes that they have committed," Toulon said.

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Truck driver rescues woman from alleged kidnapping attempt on Aiken County road

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[Catch_LISK @Catch_LISK]

#SayvilleJaneDoe

On March 8, 1992, the body of a young, unidentified female in her 20s was discovered in a trash dumpster behind a metal works shop, which was located at 175 Greeley Avenue, Sayville, New York.

The victim, weighing no more than 100 pounds, was found nude and without any of her personal effects. Subsequent examination of her body revealed her cause of death to be ligature strangulation.

In 2024, the Cold Case Task Force, in conjunction with Danielle Gruttadaurio, a forensic artist with the SCPD, and Parabon Nanolabs were able to update the image of how the victim likely appeared prior to her death via not only forensic sketch, but also by DNA Phenotyping, i.e., the prediction of physical appearance from DNA. Both images are contained herein.

Additionally, the Cold Case Task Force, in collaboration with a genetic genealogist with the FBI, has since been able to determine the victim was likely of Brazilian and/or Portuguese descent.
Anyone with information regarding this case or the identification of the victim is asked to contact [email protected].
Em 8 de março de 1992, o corpo de uma jovem não identificada, na faixa dos 20 anos, foi descoberto em uma caçamba de lixo atrás de uma oficina metalúrgica, localizada na 175 Greeley Avenue, Sayville, Nova York. A vítima, pesando no máximo 45 quilos, foi encontrada nua e sem quaisquer de seus pertences pessoais. Exames subsequentes em seu corpo revelaram que a causa da morte foi estrangulamento por ligadura. Em 2024, a Força-Tarefa de Casos Arquivados, em conjunto com Danielle Gruttadaurio, uma artista forense do SCPD, e a Parabon Nanolabs, conseguiram atualizar a imagem de como a vítima provavelmente aparentava antes de sua morte, por meio não apenas de um retrato forense, mas também por Fenotipagem de DNA, ou seja, a previsão da aparência física a partir do DNA. Ambas as imagens estão contidas aqui.

Além disso, a Força-Tarefa de Casos Arquivados, em colaboração com um genealogista genético do FBI, conseguiu desde então determinar que a vítima provavelmente era de ascendência brasileira e/ou portuguesa.

Qualquer pessoa com informações sobre este caso ou sobre a identificação da vítima deve entrar em contato pelo e-mail [email protected].

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I’m really missing my brother today. I’m always 🙏someone sees his face & calls a tip with anything they may remember. Please share his flyer on your socials. We can also help you get flyers or business cards to share at ☕️shops & 🏀courts. #FindVladek #TeamVladek #CrimeCon2026💚

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#Missing

[Brian Entin @BrianEntin]

Will put together a detailed episode later - but the specifics of what 16-year-old Timothy Hudson is accused of doing to Anna Kepner are horrific. Worse than imagined.

[Catch_LISK @Catch_LISK]

#DixHillsJaneDoe

On April 30, 1998, skeletal remains were recovered along the Vanderbilt Parkway in Dix Hills, New York.

The remains, which consisted of a skull, hands, and some vertebrae, were located inside a black plastic bag.
An anthropological exam of the remains concluded that the victim was a female likely between 20 to 40 years old and approximately 5'8" tall.

It is believed the victim was murdered at least one year, and more likely more than five years, before being discovered (death occurring prior to April 1997, and more likely before 1993).

In 2024, the Cold Case Task Force, in conjunction with Danielle Gruttadaurio, a forensic artist with the SCPD, and Parabon Nanolabs were able to update the image of how the victim likely appeared prior to her death via DNA Phenotyping, i.e., the prediction of physical appearance from DNA.

Additionally, the Cold Case Task Force, in collaboration with a genetic genealogist with the FBI, has since been able to determine the victim was likely of Bosnian, Croatian, and/or Yugoslavian descent.

Anyone with information regarding this case or the identification of the victim is asked to [email protected].
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[Catch_LISK @Catch_LISK]

Today the Map is 6 years old..quite the milestone I never imagined.

The foundational basis (all Unidentified and Missing) is nearly complete.

There are close to 35 thousand people placed either where they were found or last seen.

It takes longer now to place them in their chronological position- nearly 6 minutes each.

The Map is user friendly once you know how to use it, best opened in Chrome.

There are nearly 2 dozen solves because of the map- that means resolution for those families. So when people critique the Map I am comforted by this knowledge.

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