Megan Waterman was a struggling single mother trying to make ends meet.
Unfortunately the Scarborough woman decided a quick way to make money to help raise her young daughter was prostitution.
Waterman, 22, ended up in a motel off Long Island, New York, where she was last seen alive.
Eventually Rex Heuermann, a Manhattan architect, was linked to murders of eight prostitutes, Waterman among them.
“For years, her name sat in that haunting space between missing and forgotten,” says Mysteries in Maine, a website dedicated to trying to solve cold cases.
“That was until a stretch of highway on Long Island turned everything into something far darker.”
Mysteries in Maine is remembering Waterman with the following remembrance on Facebook:
“Megan Waterman grew up in Scarborough and South Portland, a young woman navigating complicated circumstances, including exploitation and survival sex work. In June 2010, while staying at a motel in Hauppauge, New York, she stepped out and never came back.
“Days later, she was reported missing after she failed to check in on her young daughter. Then… silence.
“Six months later, that silence broke.
“Her remains were discovered along Ocean Parkway, near Gilgo Beach, one of four women found in the same area, wrapped in burlap, placed deliberately, almost methodically. They would become known as the ‘Gilgo Four.’
“For over a decade, the case lingered. Theories swirled. Leads stalled. Families waited.
“Then came a name. And the face of a true monster living in the light.
“Rex Heuermann, a Long Island architect living what appeared to be an ordinary life, was arrested in 2023 and later charged in multiple murders tied to the Gilgo Beach killings, including Megan Waterman’s.
“Prosecutors say the connection wasn’t random. Investigators allege he specifically targeted women like Megan, those advertising online, working alone, often in transient spaces like hotels. Those he saw as vulnerable, perhaps even disposable.
“And then, in 2026, the case took a chilling turn as Heuermann pleaded guilty to multiple murders that stretched across years and victims.
“Megan wasn’t just connected to him. She was one of the women at the center of it.
“Her story is often reduced to a category of ‘victim,’ ‘escort,’ ‘Gilgo Four.’
“But she was also a mother, a daughter, and someone whose life extended far beyond the circumstances that made her vulnerable.
“And that’s the part that tends to get lost in cases like this.
“Not the mystery.
“Not the killer.
“But the person.”
-Megan Waterman. An often forgotten Mystery in Maine. Never forgotten by her loved ones.
Maine Website Honors Memory Of Troubled Scarborough Mom Murdered By Monster Psychopath
By Ted Cohen
