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Harrison told CNN that Heuermann’s family was “disgusted” and “embarrassed” when they learned of what he is accused of. If, in fact, Heuermann is guilty of the crimes of which he’s been charged, he appears to have done a successful job of hiding it from those close to him.

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Steve Kramberg, a property manager who worked with Heuermann for 30 years, told the New York Times that Heuermann was “a big goofy guy, a little bit on the nerdy side.” One professional acquaintance described him as “overly fastidious” and “adversarial with everyone,” while another called him “cold and distant.” Some of Heuermann’s neighbors told the Times that he kept to himself, meanwhile another - Nicholas Ferchaw - characterized him as sinister, “kind of creepy,” and “somebody you don’t want to approach.” (She also has a son, per CNN.) While Suffolk County police commissioner Rodney Harrison described Heuermann as “a demon that walks amongst us, a predator that ruined families,” interviews with people who knew him point to a polarizing personality. He lived in his childhood home in Massapequa Park with his wife of 27-plus years, Asa Ellerup, with whom he has a daughter. Heuermann has not been charged in connection with their deaths.īefore his arrest, Heuermann had worked as an architect and architectural consultant in Manhattan since 1987, doing projects with the city, at JFK airport, and for Cipriani, to name a few clients. In the weeks after officers found their bodies, they would find six others: four more women, a man, and a 2-year-old girl.

Their bodies had all been bound at the ankles or feet and wrapped in burlap, and all appeared to have been strangled.Īt present, Heuermann has been charged with the murders of only Barthelemy, Costello, and Waterman, though according to CNN, bail documents indicate that he is the prime suspect in Brainard-Barnes’s murder as well. All four women were in their 20s and worked as escorts two of them had children. Two days after Barthelemy’s remains turned up, the corpses of three other women - Amber Lynn Costello, last seen on SeptemMegan Waterman, last seen on Jand Maureen Brainard-Barnes, last seen on Jwere found feet apart from one another in the same vicinity. The body was identified as Melissa Barthelemy, a 24-year-old sex worker from the Bronx who disappeared in July 2009 after telling a friend she was going to meet a client. In December 2010, Suffolk County police officer John Mallia and his police dog found human remains off Gilgo Beach during a search for a different missing person.

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