Female client of Gilgo Beach murders suspect reveals ‘bone-chilling’ comment he made about the murders as she drove him home on ‘dark and desolate’ road
- A female client who worked with the suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer, Rex Heuermann, has shared unsettling details about her interactions with him
- The woman had been collaborating with Heuermann on a Brooklyn brownstone project for nearly a year until 2022 and gave him a ride home to Long Island
- During the ‘dark and desolate’ ride Heuermann spoke about the Gilgo Beach murders saying how it was strange the bodies were wrapped in burlap
A female client of the suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann has revealed how he made some ‘bone-chilling’ comments to her about the murders after she gave him a lift home.
Heuermann had been working with the woman on a Brooklyn brownstone project for about a year up until 2022 when the Crown Heights property was finally sold to an unnamed celebrity.
Heuermann appears to have made specific comments regarding the details of the murders including how he believed it to be a strange choice for the killer to have wrapped the women’s corpses in burlap.
Heuermann had also been dealing personally with real-estate agent Jeffrey St. Arromand on behalf of the woman.
‘She drove him home one time because she actually relocated to Long Island,’ St. Arromand said, noting that the route home was ‘dark and desolate.’
‘In that drive, they actually had a conversation about the murders,’ St Arromand explained. ‘And the first thing he said — and she told me this specifically — the first thing he said was, “I don’t know why he would use burlap net.” And she was like, “I don’t know, either.”‘
A female client of realtor Jeffrey St. Arromand, pictured, who worked with the suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer, Rex Heuermann, has shared unsettling details about her interactions
The home of Rex Heuermann several areas can be seen covered in blue tarp and the entrance to the basement is completely covered by two blue tents in Massapequa Park on Monday
Manhattan architect Rex Heuermann, 59, is charged with three murders attributed to the Gilgo Beach serial killer, and is the prime suspect in a fourth victim’s murder
The client who wishes to remain anonymous recalled her interactions with Heuermann to the New York Post.
‘I was only with him in my home to review the scope of work. I even gave him a ride to his home in Long Island from Brooklyn. At one point on the drive we talked about the Gilgo Beach murders — we even discussed the burlap and why someone would use that. In retrospect, thinking about that conversation, it’s just bone-chilling.’
In retrospect she says the comments and behavior seem ‘odd’.
‘Throughout the transaction he was becoming very difficult to work with, even becoming belligerent at times. He was constantly arguing with the plumber on the job and questioning his work. Just very odd behavior,’ she said. ‘For some reason in this transaction he would constantly say, ‘I’m not doing anything to get a fine or open an investigation of my license.”
St. Arronmand tells how the woman had been collaborating with Heuermann on a Brooklyn brownstone project for nearly a year until 2022 and gave him a ride home to Long Island
A filing cabinet is removed as New York State Police officers carry away a vast array of evidence out of Rex Heuermann’s home in Massapequa Park, New York, on Monday afternoon
An American flag is taken away as evidence as New York State Police officers comb for evidence
State Police look at a film strip, which is being taken in as evidence from Rex Heuermann’s home
The woman was so disturbed by his behavior that when it came to closing on the property she told Heuermann not to come.
‘When we ultimately were able to close on the property, I had such a bad experience with Rex that I told him not to attend the closing. He still needed to pick up the balance of payment, and he went to the attorney’s office separately to pick up the check,’ she said.
Speaking on Monday, St. Arronmand said upon hearing of Heuermann’s arrest, the woman was ‘angry’.
‘She is very angry. She really supported him. She needed the weekend just to decompress,” he added.
‘She’s someone that really supported this guy,’ St. Arromand said of his client. ‘She always spoke highly of him in his work.’
Rex Heuermann is shown in one of his Tinder profile pictures. Police tracked the fictitious email account he used on the profile and his burner phone number to the case
Heuermann’s yearbook photo from Berner High School’s class of 1981. He was arrested outside his office in Midtown Manhattan on July 13
Earlier on Monday, DailyMail.com published exclusive photos showing Heuermann having a few pints and mingling with coworkers at a social gathering at Pete’s Tavern, a pub in Manhattan’s Gramercy Park neighborhood.
Heuermann, who ran RH Consultants & Associates, was arrested outside his Manhattan office last Thursday night, leaving colleagues ‘shocked’ by the sudden break in the unsolved Gilgo Beach murders.
The married father-of-two, who lives in Massapequa Park on Long Island, is charged with killing victims Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello, whose bodies were found in 2010.
Miyasota is one several of colleagues who have since come forward with their encounters with the now-accused killer who had managed to fly under investigators’ radar for nearly two decades.
In his interview with DailyMail.com, he also recalled the bizarre sight of Heuermann’s car, which was piled with clutter, discarded wrappers, boxes and coffee cups.
DailyMail.com published exclusive photos showing Heuermann having a few pints and mingling with coworkers at Pete’s Tavern, a pub in Manhattan’s Gramercy Park neighborhood in 2005
Several former colleagues have recalled their encounters with the ‘odd’ and ‘socially awkward’ architect who is now accused of murdering at least three women in 2009 and 2010
Heuermann, who ran RH Consultants & Associates, was arrested outside his Manhattan office on July 13, after investigators made a sudden break in the years-long cold case
‘It was filled with garbage, stacked up to the top of the dash,’ he said. ‘I just thought what the f**k.’
The description of the car echoed statements from Heuermann’s neighbors, who said his house was also messy.
Miyasota also was aware Heuermann owned several guns and firearms.
Colleagues would speculate that he was stockpiling weapons in preparation for some sort of doomsday, but did not suspect he might be violent.
A female colleague, who worked in his office for years, also told DailyMail.com that Heuermann made no secret about his love for firearms, telling cohorts about the time he’d spend at the gun range and in the woods hunting deer, eating the venison from his kills.
He was odd, but also not shy, she explained. He liked to wax on about his work and demonstrate his prowess.
‘He was a little bit of a narcissist,’ said the woman, who asked not to be named.
‘He liked to talk about himself, you know, pat himself on the shoulder for all his accomplishments, that he was an architect, that he knew building code well.’
‘He was socially awkward, but he liked to talk,’ she added. ‘He certainly wasn’t a recluse. If you saw him standing on line somewhere, he’d strike up a conversation.’
Heuermann had lived at the his Massapequa Park, Long Island, property since the 1980s with his wife, Asa Ellerup, and their two children
Drone footage of Heuermann’s home shows police outside the one-story building and the entrance to the basement
New York state police have removed a massive haul of weapons from suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann’s Long Island home on Sunday
Among items of evidence seized from Heuermann’s home on Monday was what appeared to be a grenade
The alleged serial killer also seemed to have kept sample price lists for weapons
Interior designer Katherine Shepherd, 47, worked with suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann, 59, off and on, for five years, including a project at his Massapequa Park home in 2005
But this former coworker never visited his home or went out with him socially, saying Heuermann would generally not mix his professional and personal life.
‘He kept professional and private life completely separate,’ she said. ‘I worked with him in the office together and we went to client meetings, and that was it.’
Days after his arrest cops were seen on Sunday morning carrying out at least four long-barreled firearms from Heuermann’s ‘dungeon’-like Massapequa home as well as several blue plastic boxes with weapons in them.
And in exclusive interview with DailyMail.com earlier on Monday, interior designer Katherine Shepherd who worked on projects with Heuermann, recalled how he once refused to let her into a locked room in his basement when she was assessing the property in 2005.
Heuermann was planning to renovate the kitchen but also wanted precise measurements of the rest of the house, for which he enlisted Shepherd.
She went room to room taking measurements and he followed her downstairs.
‘In the basement, there was this one room that was locked, and he said I couldn’t go into that room,’ she told DailyMail.com.
‘I was like – what the hell? That’s weird. And he was kind of joking, like, oh you can’t go in there because there’s things in there. And then he said, ”I’ve got a bunch of guns.”
Heuermann, who has lived for decades across a bay from where the remains were found, is charged with killing (L to R): Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello
An officer was seen removing two additional firearms from the home on Sunday
‘He was weird about it, and I was like okay, fine,’ Shepherd told DailyMail.com. ‘I could measure around it.’
She remembers finding his reaction odd at the time and now wonders what else he might have been hiding in the 12’x15′ space.
‘I didn’t understand why he was being so weird about it, and now I’m thinking ‘What was he hiding?’ ‘ Shepherd said.
‘It was a big room. What was happening in that room? Is that where he took the women?’
Shepherd described how she had developed a friendly, working relationship with the architect who even once took her to a firing range in the Bronx where he taught her how to fire a 9mm handgun.
On another occasion when she slipped on ice, Heuermann accompanied her to a hospital and then back to her apartment in Manhattan where he gave her meds.
Shepherd worked with Heuermann, off and on, from 2002 to 2007 and shared office space with him for two of those years in Manhattan.
She would regularly travel with him to job sites as a freelance interior designer. At the time she found him smart and mostly friendly, and like his other colleagues called him ‘socially awkward’.
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