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Post by Graveyardbride on Jul 14, 2023 12:50:40 GMT -5
Long Island Serial Killer Suspect ArrestedIn 2010-11, authorities in New York discovered 11 sets of human remains concealed near a highway on Long Island Beach. The unidentified perpetrator, known as the Long Island Serial Killer (LISK), the Gilgo Beach Killer, the Manorville Butcher and the Craigslist Ripper, was believed to have murdered between 10 and 18 individuals – the majority of whom were sex workers who advertised on Craigslist – over a 26-year-period.
There has been a great deal of speculation as to the identity of the killer – some online couch detectives even suspected Robert Durst – but now a suspect has been identified. Following Rex Heuermann’s arrest yesterday (July 13) in Manhattan, law enforcement officers descended upon his home at 105 First Avenue in Massapequa Park, and reporters throughout the country are calling him an “everyday guy.”
Who is Rex A. Heuermann? Born September 13, 1964, Heuermann resides in a dark, dilapidated, squat little house (below) with an unkempt yard on a block of small, but well-maintained homes, most of which are painted white, shades of beige and grey and other inviting colors. One wonders why the chubby architect lived in house totally devoid of “curb appeal.” Neighbors described him as “quiet,” a “family man” with a wife and two children (a son and daughter), and one woman said his involvement in such crimes was “mind-boggling.”
In 1994, Heuermann established RH Consultants & Associates, Inc., and recently, an employee wrote online: “A large amount of responsibility with a lot of hands-on work experience due to the small nature of the company.” What this means is open to interpretation.
However, in a Yelp review dated October 25, 2017, Dan B wrote: “Hired this firm to review and handle my filings with the DOB (Department of Buildings). They screwed up and then billed me to clean up their mess. They even billed me a thousand dollars to notify the DOB that RH Consultants had moved and needed to update their address on file with the DOB. Stay far away from this firm.”
The discovery of numerous bodies buried in the sands and marshes of Long Island was triggered by the disappearance of Shannon Gilbert of Jersey City, New Jersey. On May 1, 2010, the 24-year-old escort vanished after meeting with a client in Oak Beach, a quiet gated community off Ocean Parkway in Suffolk County. Although her corpse wasn’t found until a year later, the remains of other victims were discovered while police were searching for Gilbert’s body.
The information leading to Heuermann’s arrest and the charges he is facing haven’t been released, however, he is scheduled to appear before a judge this afternoon and such will be made available at that time.Sources: Greg Norman, Michael Ruiz and Marta Dhanis, Fox News, July 14, 2023; Charlene Charles, WPIX, July 14, 2023; WLNY-TV; Jeffrey Simon Architecture & Design; New York Department of State; Yelp, and Zillow.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Jul 14, 2023 15:54:17 GMT -5
Heuermann Facing Six Charges in Murders of Three Victims
Rex A. Heuermann is facing six charges (three counts of first-degree murder and three of second-degree murder) in the deaths of three members of the so-called “Gilgo Four”: Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy and Amber Costello. He is not being charged in the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes at this time.
According to officials, a hair found on burlap material used to wrap the corpse of Megan Waterman ultimately led to Heuermann’s arrest. Initially, DNA testing on the hair was unsuccessful and it wasn’t until July 2020, when the hair was resubmitted, that a suspect was identified. Investigators then confirmed Heuermann’s DNA from a pizza box the suspect discarded in a Manhattan trash receptacle.
Heuermann was initially linked to the missing women in March when investigators learned that a first-generation Chevrolet Avalanche registered to the suspect matched the one spotted by a witness at the time of Amber Costello’s disappearance. Additionally, Massapequa Park, where Heuermann lives, is near the location where the victims went missing.
Heuermann also has been linked to taunting calls to family members of the victims. The calls originated at a Midtown Manhattan location where RH Consultants & Associates, Inc., is located.
Forensic analysis revealed female hairs in three crime scene locations belonged to Heauermann’s 59-year-old second wife, Asa, who was out of the country – in Iceland to be precise – in July 2009, when Amber Waterman went missing.
Evidence submitted consists of (1) cellphone records, including “burner” phones Heuermann used to arrange meetings with three victims, (2) taunting calls made to a relative of Melissa Barthelemy’s, (3) a call made by a detective to Ms. Barthelemy while investigating her disappearance, and (4) calls checking voicemail on the cellphone belonging to Maureen Brainard-Barnes after she was reported missing.
Prosecutors, citing the suspect’s recent internet searches for “sadistic materials, child pornography, images of the victims and their relatives,” intend to request remand (i.e., that Heuermann be held in jail without bail).
Sources: Andrea Blanco and Rachel Sharp, The Independent, July 14, 2023, and NBC News, July 14, 2023.
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Post by catherine on Jul 14, 2023 16:32:47 GMT -5
You're right. I just checked on Google street view and his house sticks out like a sore thumb in an otherwise decent neighborhood. All the other houses have clean, well-kept lawns and he has a bunch of discarded flower pots and some kind of vehicle with an ugly plastic cover on it in the front yard. If there were a house like that in the neighborhood where I live, people would complain, but things are different up there from what they are here in Alabama.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Jul 14, 2023 19:11:21 GMT -5
Heuermann Pleads Not GuiltyAccording to Michael Brown, Rex Heuermann’s attorney, when his client was arrested in Manhattan yesterday, he sobbed, “I did not do this.” This afternoon, however, he appeared unfazed as he stood before Judge Richard Ambro to face charges of first- and second-degree murder in the deaths of three of the four “Gilgo Beach” victims.
Wearing a grey polo shirt and tan-colored pants, the tall, corpulent, bushy-haired architect towered above just about everyone else in the courtroom as his lawyer entered a plea of not guilty to all charges on his behalf. Heuermann spoke only to confirm his name.
While some of his neighbors in his Massapauqa Park neighborhood were shocked when they learned of the charges against the man some described as “quiet” and a “family man,” prosecutors alleged Heuermann indulged in a secret life. He actively sought sexual liaisons through websites and dating applications such as Tinder, and used burner phones and bogus email addresses to send selfies to prostitutes and other prospects, the prosecution told the court.
According to Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney, Heuermann also used the bogus addresses “to conduct thousands of searches related to sex workers, sadistic, torture-related pornography and child pornography.” There was “a lot of porn,” he added. “Depictions of women being abused, raped and even killed.”
Although Brown argued the case was “extremely circumstantial in nature” and reserved the right to file a bail application, citing the time necessary to gather evidence, for the time being, Heuermann is remanded without bail. Sources: Steven Vago and Stephanie Pagones, The New York Post, July 14, 2023, and Priority News Network, July 14, 2023.
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Post by snowfairy on Jul 16, 2023 9:12:04 GMT -5
One of the things I like about this site is that you can always depend on people to see things that no one else mentions. I've read numerous news items and comments about this arrest, but nowhere else has anyone mentioned that his house doesn't look like the home of an architect. I checked it out on street view and like Catherine said, it sticks out like a sore thumb on a street of pretty houses with clean, attractive yards. It looks like a crack house in an otherwise decent neighborhood.
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Post by serena on Jul 16, 2023 16:59:22 GMT -5
I read somewhere that men (and women) with wide faces are more likely to be unfaithful than those with narrow faces and this goon has a wide, incredibly ugly face.
He's 59 now and those women didn't start disappearing until around the year 2000, when he would have been around 37. Isn't that late for a serial killer to kill his first victim?
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Post by Kate on Jul 16, 2023 20:35:36 GMT -5
I read somewhere that men (and women) with wide faces are more likely to be unfaithful than those with narrow faces and this goon has a wide, incredibly ugly face. |
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Post by Graveyardbride on Jul 17, 2023 8:42:56 GMT -5
Heuermann Nicknamed ‘Peter’ for Family Guy’s Peter GriffinRex Heuermann, who was described as “really friendly and really nice” by an architect and former colleague, also was nicknamed “Peter” by friends and co-workers because of his resemblance to Peter Griffin, the dysfunctional, bumbling father in the TV sitcom Family Guy. “We called him Peter ... mostly because of the way he looked. He was goofy,” the architect, who wished to remain anonymous, said.
Heuermann’s arrest Thursday for a series of serial murders on Long Island shocked everyone in his office, as well as neighbors on the street where he lived. “I’m, like, in shock,” the man added. “I can’t believe this shit.”
The former colleague told reporters a pal in Atlanta sent him a text with a link to an article announcing Heuermann’s arrest, and asked if he knew the man. “And I’m like, what the fuck? I do know him,” he admitted. “When I saw this whole thing unfold, I was in shock. How was this even possible? It’s crazy. His contact is literally in my phone.”
The architect also admitted that around 2009, Heuermann offered him a job at RH Consultants and Associates, LLC, where employees described their boss as a very hard worker who kept late hours. “There was nothing weird,” the architect insisted, and a woman at the firm told him Heuermann was “incredibly generous and took care of his people and really cared about them.”
“A year ago my wife was watching a documentary about this [the murders] telling me how this guy was out there killing all these girls on Long Island. I could have never imagined this,” the former colleague recalled. “It’s like the Twilight Zone.”
Jim Clemente, former FBI profiler-turned-producer of the CBS TV show Criminal Minds, zeroed in on Heuermann’s comparison to the Family Guy character, citing the fact Peter Griffin is “quite strange, and he does a lot of what I would consider nasty things.”
Back in 2011, the former agent profiled the Gilgo Beach killer, describing him as a “sexual sadist” who enjoyed watching people suffer. “He shows this mask, this cover of kindness, so he can continue to commit his crimes,” Clemente explained. “He’s incredibly good at compartmentalizing, separating his murders from his family life.” Heuermann, he added, was likely “very cruel to certain people” when he thought he could get away with it.
Clemente also claimed he wasn’t surprised by the suspect’s ramshackle house, saying it revealed that Heuermann’s top priority was planning and indulging in “violent sexual fantasies,” rather than his family.
Sources: Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, July 17, 2023, and Manny Fernandez and Al Baker, The New York Times, April 21, 2011.
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Post by steve on Jul 17, 2023 11:15:44 GMT -5
There are some photos taken with a drone of that house and it's literally falling apart. The roof is buckled in places and someone has put pieces of plank above some of the columns on the porch to keep them falling. |
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Post by pat on Jul 18, 2023 5:12:11 GMT -5
In no way am I trying to defend this fiend, but he had a wife, and although it's not politically correct to say, the home is usually the domain of the woman of the house, so why did she choose to live in a place that was falling apart?
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Post by Graveyardbride on Jul 18, 2023 15:21:06 GMT -5
One Neighbor ‘Creeped Out’ by Heuermann, Others Call Him Strange and OddFormer New York Center Fireman Etienne Devilliers, Rex Heuermann’s next-door neighbor, recalled a confrontation with the accused serial killer for leering at his wife while she was sunbathing. “My wife would sunbathe in the backyard occasionally ... but he would stare over the fence because he was a tall guy. … He would constantly say he was six-four, 250 pounds, and he would try to start conversations with her,” Devilliers said. “My wife finally told me a few times that she was getting creeped out a bit by him. I had a conversation with him. ... It wasn’t a pleasant conversation. We spoke pretty harshly, but he didn’t get aggressive or anything. After that, he never did it again.
“He was strange and odd,” Devilliers continued. “People would stay away from his house. I mean, they would literally cross the street because the house was such a mess. ... He tried to ‘buddy up’ because he wanted some friends. Nobody in the neighborhood ever talked to the guy. The house was a mess, but he stayed to himself, pretty much. So he asked me to play cards and tried to buddy up a couple of times, but I kind of stayed away from him.”
Nonetheless, Devilliers admitted to having been “really surprised” when he learned Heuermann had been accused of killing a number of women. “When I had that altercation with him, I basically threatened him to stop leering at my wife. He backed off,” the neighbor said. “The violence thing I didn’t see coming because he didn’t come off violent. I mean, he was strange to look at, enormous. But he never became more violent to me or to anybody that I could tell.”
The arsenal of weapons discovered at 105 First Avenue triggered another memory of something odd that happened around the time of the murders. “I saw a group of people carrying in a box that must have weighed a ton,” Devilliers told a reporter. “And he [Heuermann] told me it was a metal door for the basement. … But apparently now, the detective that came to my house ... he said that it was a safe, in the wall of the basement. So he told me the door was to lock up his guns, but I had no idea.”
Devilliers claimed he “never saw” Heuermann’s first wife, Elizabeth Ryan, but was familiar with the second wife, Asa Ellerup, and their two children. “The wife was a bit on the odd side, too,” he claimed. “She kept to herself most of the time and whenever I spoke to her, it was just two or three-word things. With Rex on the other hand, I had conversations with him, regularly.
“The kids, I really always felt sorry for the kids,” he admitted. “The son is a special needs kid who just got his first dog a couple of weeks ago. ... He’s a sweet kid. And they always used him to do the garden work and plow the snow. And they kept the kid busy doing the manual labor around the house. The daughter (Victoria) is also a nice young girl that kept to herself. Very quiet, very shy, and rarely I spoke to her. Just hello and goodbye. The son I did have conversations with. He was a nice kid. I feel terrible for them.” (Victoria Heuermann worked in her father’s firm.)
Another neighbor, Mike Schmidt, said he often visited a friend whose property backed onto Heuermann’s property. While they were drinking beer in the backyard, Schmidt said they would occasionally look over at their neighbor’s messy yard and joke about bodies buried there. He alleged children avoided Heuermann’s creepy house, even on Halloween, but on Halloween night last year, he and his friend took their kids to the house out of curiosity and to get a glimpse inside. Heueremann himself came to the door and surprised everyone by giving the kids full pumpkins of candy. However, when he told his wife about the strange man’s generosity, she was appalled and insisted the treats be thrown out.
Tara Alonzo, another local resident who works at Whole Foods on Long Island, told of a disturbing incident wherein Heuermann stole oranges from the store’s Kids Club, a location where parents leave their children while shopping. When confronted by staff, he reacted indignantly, saying, “If I was wearing a suit like I wear most days, you wouldn’t be talking to me like this.” He then strolled out of the store carrying five or six oranges.
“He was an architect, but his house looks like a dungeon,” remarked 57-year-old Bonni Petrone, whose sister was in the same class as Heuermann at the local high school.
Heuermann, locals said, had lived in the home since childhood and another neighbor told a reporter the rundown property sparked concern in the neighborhood.
Sources: Madeline Coggins, Fox News, July 18, 2023, and Will Potter, The Daily Mail, July 16, 2023.
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Post by steve on Jul 18, 2023 18:41:20 GMT -5
If children avoided the house, what was he doing with full pumpkins of candy on Halloween?
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