Forensic police officers from various agencies, including the New York State Police, were seen Saturday removing large items, including a large filing cabinet, from the Long Island home of suspected serial killer Rex Heuerman.
Heuerman, 59, who has lived in Massapequa Park for decades, is charged with the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello.
He is also considered the prime suspect in the death of a fourth woman whose body was found wrapped and hidden in thick underbrush along a remote beach highway, authorities said.
Heuerman pleaded not guilty to multiple murder charges. His lawyer, Michael Brown, said he insisted he ‘didn’t do it’.
A former classmate of the suspect, Maureen Boyle Hallpitt, told Fox News that she regularly left love notes in her locker while in high school. Messages include: ‘I think you’re beautiful’ or ‘I like you. Can you get me back?’
Forensic police spent much of Saturday moving items such as a large filing cabinet out of the home of accused serial killer Rex Heuerman.
Heuerman, 59, who has lived in Massapequa Park for decades, is charged with the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello.
Officers in hazmat suits look large through garbage bags of items including sugar-free cough drops, a gum ball machine and red cups.
Another officer carried a painting of what appeared to be a fighter jet and another carried a large cat scratching post.
Two officers wheeled a large container that was completely covered with blankets.
In his interview with Fox News, Holpitt said he never saw Heuerman as a threat.
‘He was a quiet, shy person. She looked beautiful and lovely. Mild natured. That’s all I could really remember of him. I was always good and kind to him. He was shy and maybe a little nerdy so he seemed to be a bit of a tease,’ she said.
Heuerman is charged with three murders attributed to the Gilgo Beach serial killer and is the prime suspect in the murder of a fourth victim.
Two officers wheeled a large container that was completely covered with blankets
A member of the New York State Police removed a painting of a fighter jet from Heuerman’s home
‘But I had no indicators or red flags now that I look back that he might do something like that,’ Hallpitt added.
He said he was informed of Human’s arrest on Friday by other friends, some of them former classmates.
‘And from what I’ve seen from other people’s comments (on social media) and from friends that I’m still in touch with, we’re absolutely amazed and shocked. You never expect it,’ he said.
Among those classmates who posted online was actor Billy Baldwin, Alec’s brother.
Heuerman and his brother Craig attended the same school, Barner High, as Baldwin and graduated in 1981, five years after becoming Hollywood stars.
Yearbook photographs show Heuerman was part of the school’s drama club.
Housewares, including a red Solo cup, can be seen in a box taken from home
A large cat scratching post is loaded onto a truck and taken from a Long Island home
A green dumpster is pictured outside Human’s home on Saturday
Neighbors previously said people would avoid Human if they saw him on the street
Alec Baldwin’s brother Billy tweeted that he was a classmate of Human. He said: ‘Woke up this morning to find out that the Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect is my high school classmate Rex Heuerman.
‘Married, two children, architect. Average guy… quiet, family man. Upset… Massapequa shocked.’
Heuerman went on to study architectural technology at the New York Institute of Technology, before going into business at Greer Construction Corporation in Freeport, New York.
He married Elizabeth Ryan in 1990, but the couple divorced. He now has an Icelandic wife, a stepson and a daughter, Victoria, 26, from his second marriage.
Victoria works with her father at the architecture firm, RH Consultants & Associates, where she was arrested last night.
Heuermann founded the company in 1994, and its clients included American Airlines and ‘other major tenants’ at JFK International Airport, according to an online biography.
A 1981 Burner High School yearbook photo of Gilgo Beach murder suspect Rex Heuerman (left), who graduated just five years after Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin (right).
Suspicious neighbors had long been wary of the mysterious architect. One, Mike Schmidt, said he often shared a beer with another neighbor and would point to Heuerman’s house and comment: ‘That’s probably where his body is,’ according to the Times.
Schmidt said that last Halloween, he finally decided to break years of tradition by taking his children trick-or-treating at the Humane home, where he lives with his wife, daughter and stepson. The house where the suspect lived as a child.
He said the hulking architect opened the doors to the children and gave each of them a plastic pumpkin. Schmidt added that when he told his wife where the candy came from, she made him throw it away.
Earlier, neighbors in interviews with Newstimesuk.com described the suspect’s home as ‘spooky’ and ‘like a dungeon’.
In his professional life some painted Heuermann as an arrogant character. Paul Teitelbaum, who worked with Heuermann on a project involving a building in Brooklyn Heights, commented that he had a ‘swag’ about him.
According to Teitelbaum, ‘I’m the expert, you’re lucky to have me’ was Heuermann’s attitude.
In 2022, Heuerman was involved in a bizarre incident in which he was accused of stealing clementines for babies from a bowl at a Whole Foods supermarket.
‘He took three and put them in his pocket, then took more. I said: “Sir, these are for kids,” store worker Tara Alonzo told The Times. Alonzo said Heuerman was so angry, a manager had to escort him out.
Heuerman founded his architecture company in 1994, and its clients included American Airlines and JFK International Airport’s ‘other major tenants’.
Alonzo said the next time he heard about Heuerman was when he saw his face on TV after his arrest. ‘My colleague said: “That’s the orange guy.”‘
Over the past decade or so, Heuerman has been involved in a series of lawsuits in which he has taken people to court for allegedly hitting them with their cars and causing him ‘serious and permanent injuries,’ reports CNN.
The network reports that the cases have been ‘settled or closed’, with the latest one still open.
During a deposition related to one of those suits, Heuerman said the only sport he participated in was ‘competition rifles.’
CNN also revealed that Heuermann has had problems with the IRS, at one point owing more than $425,000 in back taxes dating back to 2005. As of October 2022, he has paid $215,078.
He and his wife owe more than $81,000 to the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance.
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