Rex Heuermann captured on creepy Google Street View images in Manhattan
A killer in our midst?
A chilling Google Street View image captured alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann chatting with an unidentified woman in June 2022 as scores of oblivious New Yorkers stroll past.
The haunting shot on East 36th Street near Heuermann’s Midtown Manhattan office was taken just months before police began to zero in on the Massapequa Park architect as the man responsible for the bodies of three young sex workers who were murdered and buried in burlap sacks on Long Island.
The hulking suspect is seen wearing the same type of light blue dress shirt he wore in a YouTube interview last year and in other surveillance images released by police in the wake of his stunning arrest last week.
The towering, 6-foot-4 villain, with a prodigious paunch, also appears to be carrying the same over-the-shoulder brown bag he toted when he was finally arrested Thursday night after six months being staked out by police.
Footage of the arrest shows Heuermann walking down a nearby Manhattan block as a swarm of plainclothes officers surround him and confiscate his bag before taking him into custody.
The Google image — first uncovered by online sleuths who’ve been scouring the internet for any trace of the now-infamous father of two — shows Heuermann standing next to a young woman with her arms folded outside a smoke shop.
It was snapped by the internet company’s mapping services, which take 360-degree photos from specially modified vehicles to map locations around the planet.
The accused serial killer had worked in Midtown for decades at his own company, RH Architecture.
He is facing three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of second-degree murder for the slayings of Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy and Amber Costello.
He also is considered the prime suspect in the killing of at least one more victim, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25.
Despite his prestigious title and solid professional reputation, Heuermann lived in a squalid home in Massapequa Park along with his wife and at least one child.
While co-workers have generally described him as courteous and sociable, others have cast Heurmann as an unsettling and sometimes awkward presence.
In a TikTok video, a former business acquaintance of Heuermann revealed that he once broached the Gilgo killings during a casual conversation.
Designer Dominique Vidal, who was in a networking group with Heuermann, said he asked if she was familiar with the case during an event at a Manhattan bar.
“I’m like, ‘Yeah, of course I know,’ ” she said she told him at the time. “And he goes on to tell me, ‘Yeah, that’s a serial killer that was never caught in my hometown, my neighborhood where I live.’ “
“Anybody could be a serial killer,” she responded, drawing a laugh from Heuermann.
Police unveiled a trove of evidence against Heuermann last week, including incriminating phone calls made from burner phones and DNA taken from a slice of pizza he tossed near his Manhattan office that connected him to the victims.
He pleaded not guilty at his Friday arraignment.
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