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The New York architect previously accused of killing four women and leaving their corpses scattered along a coastal highway was charged Thursday in the deaths of two more after prosecutors said they gathered new DNA evidence and found a computer document he had used to “blueprint” his crimes._ --- Jun 6, 2024 7:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Long Island Architect Charged in Connection with Gilgo Beach Serial Killings](/video/FhXBYkCt/) ### Long Island Architect Charged in Connection with Gilgo Beach Serial Killings [What We Know So Far About the Allegedly Leaked Classified U.S. Military Documents](/video/USsa0sKz/) ### What We Know So Far About the Allegedly Leaked Classified U.S. Military Documents [Jay-Z talks DJ Hero and The Blueprint 3](/video/LSrJvjgD/) ### Jay-Z talks _DJ Hero_ and _The Blueprint 3_ --- ## Transcript Today, as you've just seen, the district attorney's office filed a superseding indictment charging the Defendant with two additional murders. Those charges pertain to the 1993 murder of Sandra Castilla, and the 2003 murder of Jessica Taylor. So that's in addition to the previously charged murders of Maureen Brainard Barnes, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Wartiman, and Amber Costello, which occurred in 1997, 1999, June of 2010 and September of 2010, respectively. Yerman had a significant collection of violent bondage and torture pornography, which was dating back to 1994, and that material was very similar to the condition that the two latest victims were left in. In addition to that, it is alleged that the pornographic images that were accessed by Yerman are consistent with the crime scenes of both Sandra Kasia and Jessica Taylor. As part of our processing of the electronic devices, the task force discovered a Microsoft word document entitled HK 2002 through 2004. That was discovered on a laptop in unocated space, meaning there was an attempt to erase that document. The task force believes that this is a planning document, and it was utilized by Ermine to methodically blueprint and plan out his skills with excruciating detail. We allege that this document evinces the Defendant's intent in committing the charge crimes, that his intent was specifically to locate these victims to hunt them down and to bring them to bring them under his control and to kill them. And we allege that the methodology, the exact method by which these murders were committed, in excruciating detail in that document is, in some cases identical to the methodology used to murder the six victims in this case. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Man Charged in Gilgo Beach Serial Killings Allegedly Kept Document to ‘Blueprint’ Crimes","description":"The New York architect previously accused of killing four women and leaving their corpses scattered along a coastal highway was charged Thursday in the deaths of two more after prosecutors said they gathered new DNA evidence and found a computer document he had used to “blueprint” his crimes.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/HSsOkEop/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2024-06-06T17:23:50.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/HSsOkEop.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/HSsOkEop/","duration":"PT2M17S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/HSsOkEop/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```