She held childhood photos of her murdered daughter but couldn’t speak about not even after 20 years. After prosecutors linked Jessica Taylor’s death to accused on Thursday, the victim’s still-heartbroken mother, Elizabeth Baczkiel, left it up to her lawyer to deliver her emotional tribute. “Jessica, my darling daughter, you will never be forgotten,” attorney Gloria Allred read from the parent’s moving statement outside a Suffolk County courthouse.
“You will always be missed! You will forever be in our hearts.” In a prosecutors said Taylor, 20, and another victim, 28-year-old Sandra Costilla, were killed by Heuermann. He was whose remains were found near one another along a stretch of Ocean Parkway known as Gilgo Beach between late fall 2010 and early spring 2011.
Taylor and Costilla also represent the first victims tied to Heuermann whose remains were discovered elsewhere than along Ocean Parkway, expanding the area in which he allegedly dumped bodies by more than 40 miles. Authorities said Taylor, a sex worker, died between July 21 and July 26, 2003. Costilla was murdered between Nov.
19 and 20, 1993, according to the indictment. The words Baczkiel’s lawyer read said nothing about a sex worker. Instead, the narrative focused on the little girl who liked riding her bike, playing Monopoly, and cuddling with her mother and her two brothers.
“They would pile on the couch and watch TV,” Baczkiel said in the statement. “I miss how she called me ‘Mommy’ .
