Neighbors of Gilgo Seaside serial homicide suspect ‘really feel like they’re residing in true crime documentary’

A seedy celebration ambiance has erupted outdoors the house of accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann – with one girl even bringing her pet pig to affix within the ghoulish festivities. 

Shocked neighbors of the suspected assassin say they really feel like they’re residing ‘in a real crime documentary’ as giant crowds have flocked to the sleepy avenue. 

Mackenzie Richards, 29, from Boston, mentioned she and her pig Stella have been on their strategy to go to her mother in New York when she heard concerning the killer’s arrest, and she or he instantly started ‘trying, trying, trying’ to hurry to his residence. 

‘Subsequent factor you already know, right here we’re,’ she mentioned whereas dozens of beer-swigging true crime followers partied on the road round her. 

The weird scenes got here the day after Heuermann, 59, was arrested in midtown Manhattan for the grisly murders, round an hour’s drive from his residence in Massapequa Park, New York. 

Mackenzie Richards (left) introduced her pet pig Stella to affix the seedy celebration ambiance together with her mother Monica Richards (heart) and her boyfriend James Sweeney (proper)

Large crowds have flocked to Heuermann’s residence in Massapequa Park to catch a glimpse of the suspected serial killer’s hang-out

Manhattan architect Rex Heuermann, 59, is charged with three murders attributed to the Gilgo Seaside serial killer, and is the prime suspect in a fourth sufferer’s homicide

Neighbors described the suspected serial killer as a quiet household man, who might usually be seen tinkering in his storage whereas maintaining to himself. 

Many additionally mentioned the home he shared together with his spouse and daughter was ‘terrifying’, with one native feeling the derelict property resembles a ‘dungeon’.

Tara and Tom Stafford, who’ve lived within the Massapequa Park neighborhood for 45 years, advised DailyMail.com they ‘all the time felt like (his residence) was creepy’. 

‘We’re shocked this occurred,’ they added, expressing concern that the ugly killings might give the healthful neighborhood a grim popularity. 

Whereas many have been distressed by the grisly killings, the fashionable fascination with true crime led Tara Alonso, who lives within the neighborhood, to explain the scene as ‘so cool’.

‘I’ve an adrenaline rush simply watching all this taking place, by no means noticed one thing like this earlier than,’ she mentioned.

Alonso, who works at Entire Meals in Massapequa, revealed she had a weird run-in with the killer a number of months in the past.

She claims he stole oranges from the shop’s child’s membership, the place mother and father depart their kids whereas they store. When he was confronted by employees, she says he responded: ‘If I used to be carrying a go well with like I put on most days, you would not be speaking to me like this.’ 

Bonnie Petrone (left) described the suspected serial killer’s residence as a ‘dungeon’. She is pictured together with her daughter Aliyah (heart) and a buddy

Michelle Lombardi and Angelina Flaherty mentioned the accused homicide appeared like a ‘regular dad’

Due to the suspected serial killer’s towering 6ft 6in body, many within the native space had seen him round, though most mentioned he was a loner and who gave off a ‘creepy’ vibe to others.  

Michelle Lombardi, an actual property dealer who sells properties within the neighborhood, mentioned it was ‘disturbing’ to know the killer could have been within the space for many years.

‘This can be a nice neighborhood the place everybody comes collectively for each other, it is simply actually unlucky,’ she mentioned.

Her daughter Angela Flaherty, 22, mentioned he ‘appeared like a traditional dad’, and would see him in school soccer matches as his daughter was a couple of grades forward of her in highschool. 

Nonetheless, she added that his home seems ‘terrifying’, and she or he usually puzzled who the notorious Gilgo Seaside killer was because the murders have been so near residence. 

She continued: ‘It is actually scary. As a neighborhood resident numerous us would drive on the Ocean Parkway for enjoyable and we all the time puzzled if the Gilgo Seaside serial killer was on the market. 

‘I additionally puzzled the place he lives. There’s numerous little homes on Gilgo Seaside and I all the time puzzled if a type of little homes on the marsh was the serial killers.’

The suspect’s home sits straight north of Gilgo Seaside throughout the South Oyster Bay, round 25-minutes from the place the stays have been discovered

Forensics groups working at Heuermann’s residence on Friday. A freezer was amongst gadgets seized 

Neighbors mentioned the killer was a quiet household man who lived in a run-down derelict residence together with his spouse and daughter that resembled a ‘dungeon’  

Bonnie Petrone, 57, a schoolteacher in New York Metropolis, mentioned the scenario was ‘chilling’, not least as a result of Heuerman graduated highschool together with her sister.

‘I would not anticipate something like this taking place in our small city,’ she mentioned. Petrone additionally remarked that his crumbling residence left a lot to be desired, including: ‘He was an architect, however his home seems like a dungeon.’ 

Her daughter Aliyah, 24, mentioned she was obsessive about the Gilgo Seaside murders when she was rising up, as they occurred when she was round 11 years outdated.

‘It looks like I am watching a real crime documentary and am in it,’ she mentioned. 

Neighbor Patricia DeVilliers mentioned: ‘Who expects to get up on a Friday morning and discover out their next-door neighbor is a serial killer?’

She echoed many as she described them as ‘quiet’, and mentioned the household would preserve to themselves and by no means throw any events.  

Shocked locals headed to Massapequa Park to catch a glimpse of the ‘creepy’ residence

A big police presence has positioned a barrier across the residence, which is round 25-minutes from the place the victims stays have been discovered

Neighbors expressed concern that the ugly killings might spoil the healthful popularity of their sleepy neighborhood

Bob Vernon, 58, mentioned he drove from his residence in close by Wantagh to catch a glimpse of the suspect’s home as a result of he was ‘curious’.

‘He is an architect however they mentioned his home seems like rubbish,’ he mentioned, including that his brother-in-law went to highschool with Heuermann and he described him as a ‘unusual man’. 

Rex Heuermann is proven in considered one of his Tinder profile footage. Police tracked the fictional electronic mail account he used on the profile and his burner telephone quantity to the case

Heuermann’s truck was faraway from the house Friday afternoon 

Investigators revealed Friday that they moved to arrest Heuermann over fears that the suspected murderer might strike once more. 

Cops had Heuermann underneath surveillance since final 12 months, and had deliberate to proceed to comply with him as they constructed their case, however determined to swoop in and make the arrest within the curiosity of ‘public security,’ Suffolk County District Lawyer Ray Tierney advised reporters.

Tierney cited numerous purple flags, saying that Heuermann ‘continued to patronize intercourse staff,’ was utilizing false IDs and burner telephones, and had permits for an astonishing 92 firearms.

‘Which after all made us very nervous,’ mentioned Tierney, who has led a secret investigative activity pressure targeted on Heuermann for the reason that spring of 2022.

Flanked by relations of the victims as he addressed reporters, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison delivered a grim evaluation of the suspect, saying: ‘Rex Heuermann is a demon that walks amongst us, a predator that ruined households.’

Suffolk County District Lawyer Ray Tierney mentioned Heuermann had been underneath surveillance since final 12 months, and cops moved in to arrest him over fears he would strike once more

Questions have been raised over why it took investigators so lengthy to lastly snare the alleged killer after over a decade at giant. 

He has been named because the prime suspect within the homicide of Maureen Brainar-Barnes, and can be being investigated for the murders of one other six ladies discovered useless close to the seaside in 2011.

Forward of his look, prosecutors launched their bombshell proof in opposition to him that features; 

• His spouse’s DNA was discovered on three of the victims’ our bodies
• One among his personal hairs was discovered on one of many victims’ our bodies 
• Cellphone calls produced from a burner telephone to the victims have been traced to his workplace 
• A name made to one of many victims’ sisters after she died was traced to his workplace 
• His Tinder profile with pictures of him was linked to the burner telephone 
• His Chevrolet pick-up truck was seen by witness to 1 sufferer’s disappearance 
• He matches description of ‘ogre’ like man seen with one sufferer earlier than she vanished 
• Heuermann performed graphic searches for baby porn and pictures of girls being sexually abused 
• He additionally searched Google for updates on the case, looking ‘why might legislation enforcement not hint the calls made by the lengthy island serial killer’