“This is someone who can walk into a room and seem like your average Joe,” sociologist Scott Bonn told the Times in 2011.
A 2011 story on the likely profile of the Gilgo Beach serial killer came remarkably close to the real-life traits of the suspect who was nabbed for at least three of the infamous murders this week.
All of those descriptors apply to Rex Heuermann, the Massapequa Park architect, husband and father of two who was arrested for the murders of three of the so-called “Gilgo Four” on Thursday night.Now 59, Heuermann would have been around 46 when the last Gilgo victim, Costello, was killed in September 2010.
Investigators said Friday that Heuermann’s wife, Asa Ellerup, and children were out of town around the time three of the woman vanished. She was in Maryland when Waterman disappeared, his bail application revealed. Barry Auslander, 72, told The Post that Heuermann looked like an “average guy who had a family and went to work.”Heuermann — who was divorced from his first wife, Elizabeth Ryan, and is currently married to Asa Ellerup, 59 — has been the president of his own Manhattan-based company, RH Architects, since 1994.
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