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The suspect arrested in connection with Long Island’s Gilgo Beach murders is a twice-married New York City architect, Rex Heuermann, 59, who attended the same high school as Alec Baldwin.
Heuermann, who has a daughter and a stepson, was described by neighbors as a ‘family man’ living in a ‘messy house’ in Massapequa Park, around a 25-minute drive north of the beach where the bodies of ten women and a toddler were found in 2010 and 2011.
The Long Island native was taken into custody outside his midtown Manhattan office last night.
In a video posted by Bonjour Realty last year, Rex Heuermann detailed his work history with his eponymous architecture firm, where he served clients including American Airlines and Catholic Charities.
“I’ve been working in Manhattan since 1987,” Heuermann, 59, told the interviewer.
The clip was posted on Feb. 17, 2022, more than 11 years after the bodies of four women were found wrapped in burlap along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach in December 2010.
He has been arrested in relation to the first four of 11 murders along the Oyster Bay area between 2010 and 2011.
The ‘Gilgo Beach four’ were all young prostitutes in their 20s who were all strangled before their bodies were found in burlap sacks along the beach in December 2010.
Another six women and a toddler were found in the following months.
Police are still investigating whether he had anything to do with the other murders.
He has lived in a ramshackle bungalow worth around $195,000 in Massapequa since the 1980s.
Today, the ‘tight-knit’ neighborhood was left reeling after cops swarmed the house.
A neighbor who shared a backyard and grew up alongside the murder suspect described him ‘as a family man with a messy house’, adding ‘it’s an eyesore in a nice neighborhood’.
Neighbor Barry Auslander told DailyMail.com he would see the suspect at the train station in the mornings between 5.30am and 6.30am when he dropped off his wife.
He had just seen him days ago dressed in a business suit with a briefcase, ‘just like a normal businessman getting onto the Long Island Rail Road’, he added.
When he heard it was the suspect was arrested, he was floored.
‘I want to know who is buried in the backyard,’ he said.
Seinfeld, Friends and Saturday Night Live, owing much to the fact that Alec Baldwin and Jerry Seinfeld grew up locally.
Indeed, Heuermann and his brother Craig attended the same school, Berner High, as Baldwin, and graduated five years after the Hollywood star in 1981.
Yearbook photographs show Heuermann was part of the school drama club.
Alec Baldwin’s brother, Billy, tweeted that he was a classmate of Heuermann’s. He said: ‘Woke up this morning to learn that the Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect was my high school classmate Rex Heuermann…
‘Married, two kids, architect. ‘Average guy… quiet, family man.’ Mind-boggling… Massapequa is in shock.’
Heuermann went onto study architectural technology at the New York Institute of Technology, before getting his start in the business at Greer Construction Corp in Freeport, New York.
He married Elizabeth Ryan in 1990, but the couple has since 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 he was arrested last night.
Heuermann founded the company in 1994 and its clients included American Airlines and ‘other major tenants’ at the JFK International Airport, according to an online biography.
