‘He had a fascination with those girls’: Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect hired frail women who looked like his alleged victims at an architecture firm before they had to do menial tasks, ex-employee claims
‘He had a fascination with those girls’: Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect hired frail women who looked like his alleged victims at an architecture firm before they had to do menial tasks, ex-employee claims
- Rex Heuermann, 59, was arrested and charged with the murder of three women
- An ex-employee at his company claimed he would hire women who looked like them
- He claimed that then Heuermann would be “very demeaning to women, not very nice”
The Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect hired petite women who resembled his alleged victims at his architecture firm, a former employee claims.
The staffer, who only revealed his name as “Eric,” claimed that Rex Heuermann would get the women to do menial tasks like make coffee and move his car.
He claimed the 6ft 4in, 59-year-old murder suspect would try to humiliate them in the office and that he had a ‘fascination’ with them.
Heuermann has been arrested and charged with the murders of three of the ‘Gilgo Four’, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello.
Heuermann, 59, has been arrested and charged with the murder of three of the ‘Gilgo Four’, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello, whose bodies were found on Long Island beach in 2010
Police searched the property on Friday for “trophies” that may be related to the victims
Drone photos of the backyard of Heuermann’s Massapequa Park home on Friday
A cat was taken from Heuermann’s home in Massapequa Park on Friday afternoon
Former staff member Eric told New York Post: “It was almost like he was fascinated by those girls he worked with.”
He claimed that Heuermann would be “very demeaning to women, not very nice” and force them to do gopher work like get coffee and move his car.
Eric, who worked “off and on” for the alleged killer from the 1990s, also claimed that Heuermann once instructed a colleague to spend “months” investigating NYC strip clubs.
“He always had that sinister look in his eye,” Eric said, adding that Heuermann often bragged about his collection of firearms.
The ex-employee, who showed emails proving he worked for Heuermann, called him a man who would hide behind his expertise.
Melissa Barthelemy, top left, Amber Costello, top right, Megan Waterman, bottom left, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes. Long Island authorities vow to continue investigations into the Gilgo Beach murders after blaming an architect for the deaths of three of the 11 victims
“He was a really good person at absorbing and being a straight-up, nerdy guy about his topic. And that was his kind of cover,’ Eric said.
However, Eric was not surprised that the “cheap” Heuermann was arrested, noting that he “always had a sinister look in his eye.”
Heuermann was arrested last week and charged with the murder of three of the “Gilgo Four,” a group of women whose bodies were discovered in 2010 off Gilgo Beach on Long Island.
He pleaded not guilty to the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello.
The architect lived in a ‘dungeon-like’ house just 18 miles from the beach with his wife Asa Ellerup, adult daughter and stepson – who police say were gone when the murders took place.
Heuermann is also the prime suspect in the 2007 disappearance and subsequent murder of the fourth wife, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, although he has not yet been charged in the case.
He is also under investigation for the murders of six other women whose bodies were found off Gilgo Beach in 2011.
Detectives are now investigating unsolved murders across the country to see if they are related to Heuermann.
Police searched his property Thursday for the seventh day for “trophies” that may be linked to the victims. Investigators are also looking into his share of time in Las Vegas and a property he owned in South Carolina.