“We’re happy to see that they’re finally active, the police, in accomplishing something. Heuermann, married with a daughter and a stepson, is a licensed architect with a Manhattan-based firm that, according to its website, has done store buildouts and other renovations for major retailers, offices and apartments.
He looked like a businessman,” Auslander said. The home, where Heuermann has lived since childhood, belonged to a family that had long kept to themselves, neighbors said, noting that the dilapidated property seemed out of place among rows of single-family homes and well-kept lawns.īarry Auslander said the man who lived in the house commuted by train to New York City each morning, wearing a suit and tie and carrying a briefcase. Dozens of residents mingled alongside police and media, watching as a half-dozen investigators, some in protective suits, conferred outside the front porch, which was in disrepair, its roof propped up by 2-by-4s. Law enforcement personnel converged Friday morning on Heuermann’s home, a small red house about 40 miles (64 km) east of midtown Manhattan. “I never thought they’d find this person,” Barthelemy’s cousin, Amy Brotz, said. The arrest came as a shock and a relief to some of the victims’ relatives. Kathy Hochul said during an unrelated appearance on Long Island. “This is a day that is a long time in coming, and hopefully a day that will bring peace to this community and to the families - peace that has been long overdue,” New York Gov. He also has permits for 92 guns, the prosecutor said. Until his arrest, Heuermann continued to use burner phones, patronize sex workers and search the internet for sadistic materials, including sexually exploitative images of children, Tierney said. Tierney said authorities moved to charge Heuermann now with three of the killings “out of concern for this defendant fleeing and the danger to the community.” They are continuing to work toward charging him in the death of a fourth victim, Maureen Brainard-Barnes. In recent months, Heuermann sought to keep tabs on the probe and “searched obsessively” on the internet for facts about the Gilgo Beach killings, including the names of women he’s accused of killing, as well as podcasts and documentaries about the case, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said. “If not for the members of this task force, he would still be out on the streets today.”Īfter connecting Heuermann to the pickup, prosecutors said, investigators were able to link him to other evidence, including burner cellphones used to arrange meetings with the slain women, and taunting calls that a person claiming to be the killer made to one of Barthelemy’s relatives using her cellphone after she disappeared in 2009. “Ladies and gentlemen, Rex Heuermann is a demon that walks among us - a predator that ruined families,” Suffolk County police Commissioner Rodney Harrison said.
Last year an interagency task force was formed with investigators from the FBI, as well as state and local police departments, aimed at solving the case. Their deaths long stumped investigators, a mystery that fueled immense public attention and led to a 2020 Netflix film, “Lost Girls.”ĭetermining who killed them, and why, vexed a slew of seasoned homicide detectives through several changes in police leadership. Most of the victims were young women who had been sex workers. Heuermann lives in Massapequa Park, a community just north of South Oyster Bay and the sandy stretch known as Gilgo Beach where the remains were found in 20. Heuermann, wearing khaki pants and a gray collared shirt, did not speak in court.
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