Gilgo Seashore serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann owes practically $70,000 for wage theft at his NYC structure agency, Labor Division lawsuit claims

Suspected Gilgo Seashore serial killer Rex Heurmann owes 1000’s of {dollars} in stolen wages from employees at his Manhattan structure agency, in keeping with a lawsuit filed by the New York Division of Labor.

The alleged assassin, 59, owes workers $20,908 in unpaid wages from his agency RH Consultants & Associates, the lawsuit claims. He’s additionally being searched for $9,767 in curiosity funds, $20,208 in liquidated damages, and and extra $33,362 in civil penalties.

Heuermann counted Nike, American Airways and Goal as shoppers throughout his three decade structure profession, whereas allegedly additionally strangling three women and taunting their families with cellphone calls – usually allegedly produced from his New York workplace. 

He’s charged with first and second diploma homicide in reference to the deaths of three victims, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello. Authorities say he’s the ‘prime suspect’ in one other killing, Maureen Brainard-Barnes.

The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday, comes days after Heuermann’s distraught family slammed police for tearing their Lengthy Island residence aside in quest of proof. 

After beginning his structure agency in 1994, Heuermann constructed a profitable profession as an  in Manhattan earlier than his dramatic arrest in July

The 59-year-old allegedly made taunting cellphone calls to his victims from his structure places of work in Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue (pictured)

He was reportedly first ordered to repay the wages in January 2021 – over a yr earlier than he landed on cops radar because the potential killer – and had paid again $16,300 earlier than his arrest in July. 

Alongside his structure work, which primarily centered on inner constructing design, Heuermann was additionally identified within the New York property sphere as an skilled fixer who had an intimate information of the state’s forms. 

In an interview with a French journalist in 2022, he boasted of his career success and talents as a ‘troubleshooter’. In an ominous second speaking about his skillset, he mentioned he was impressed by his dad, whom he described as a cupboard maker and an ‘aerospace engineer who constructed satellites.’

‘I’ve one instrument that is just about utilized in each job — a cupboard maker’s hammer,’ he mentioned of each his furniture-making and consulting.

‘It’s persuasive sufficient after I want to influence one thing, and it all the time yields wonderful outcomes.’

Requested if he meant he was ‘that sort of hammer for your enterprise,’ Heuermann replied: ‘Typically I’ve to be the heavy framing hammer. Different occasions I am the light-weight hammer simply to nudge issues alongside.’

Heuermann, pictured throughout a 2022 interview about his structure agency, boasted that he was an skilled architect who had a knack as a ‘troubleshooter’

Heuermann is charged with with the deaths of three victims, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello. He’s the ‘prime suspect’ within the demise of Maureen Brainard-Barnes 

Alongside the three murders he has been charged with, Heuermann is suspected of being chargeable for a number of different units of stays discovered on Gilgo Seashore, New York over a decade in the past

Heuermann’s dramatic arrest outdoors his places of work in Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue on July 13 got here because of a decade-long hunt for the notorious Gilgo Bach serial killer.

The primary set of stays had been discovered alongside the strip of shoreline in December 2010, when the physique of Melissa Barthelemy, 24, was found throughout a seek for one other lacking girl, Shannan Gilbert, 23. 

Two days later, cops realized they could have a serial killer on their palms when investigators discovered three extra units of stays – these of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Amber Costello and Megan Waterman.

The our bodies had been discovered alongside a half-mile stretch on Gilgo Seashore, the place a number of different our bodies – which police are nonetheless figuring out if Heuermann had something to do with – have additionally been discovered. 

The three girl he has been charged with killing and the one he’s suspected of murdering had been all discovered wrapped in camouflaged burlap, and labored as escorts on Craigslist, officers mentioned.  

Heuermann’s arrest in July outdoors his Manhattan places of work got here after a decade-long hunt for the Gilgo Seashore serial killer. He first landed on investigators’ radar in March 2022

A map displaying the place the victims stays had been situated alongside the barren stretch of Ocean Seashore Parkway in Gilgo Seashore, situated on the South Shore of Lengthy Island 

Following his dramatic arrest, Heuermann’s ramshackle residence in Massapequa Park, Lengthy Island, was combed by means of by forensic investigators

Crews scoured the house, together with the yard, for days for additional proof. Heuermann’s household have not too long ago criticized cops for tearing aside their property

Investigators claimed that following Barthelemy’s disappearance, taunting cellphone calls had been made to her household the place a person described in grim element how he sexually assaulted and killed her. 

The sickening cellphone calls had been utilized by police after he was first floated as a suspect in March 2022.

According to documents filed in courtroom, investigators that month had been trying into the homicide of Costello, the place a Chevrolet Avalanche was noticed by a witness on the time of the killing. 

Following the identification of Heuermann because the proprietor of a car that matched one seen on the crime scene, cops issued over 300 subpoenas, search warrants and different authorized processes to acquire additional proof – together with his cellphone information. 

By Heuermann’s American Categorical information, police had been in a position to hyperlink him to a Tinder account during which he used a pseudonym, his center identify, Andy. That account was linked to one among his many burner telephones.

He was identified to undergo a slew of burner telephones, and as not too long ago as this yr he allegedly used one of many telephones ‘extensively for prostitution-related contacts’ together with intercourse staff and therapeutic massage parlors. 

In January, with police surveilling him, police recovered a pizza field that he had tossed right into a rubbish can in Manhattan. They had been in a position to match the DNA from the leftover pie with a pattern that was taken from the burlap sack that the killer used to hide Waterman’s physique. 

 Police say that the burner cell telephones and the sufferer’s telephones put Heuermann within the space the place the victims had been discovered across the occasions of their disappearances and round his Midtown Manhattan workplace when cellphone calls had been made, together with the taunting Barthelemy name.

In January, with police surveilling him, police recovered a pizza field that Heurmann had tossed right into a rubbish can in Manhattan that they used to acquire his DNA

Heuermann’s distraught household have returned to their Lengthy Island residence, and have criticized police for tearing it aside throughout their seek for proof

New York state police eliminated a large haul of weapons from Heuermann’s Lengthy Island residence throughout their investigation in July

One of many burners utilized by Heuermann confirmed extraordinarily sexually graphic web searches for sexual assault and torture.

Whereas an electronic mail handle utilized by Heuermann noticed him frequently Google in quest of updates within the Lengthy Island serial killer case, together with podcasts and documentaries.

The case has drawn immense public consideration. The thriller attracted nationwide headlines for a few years and the unsolved killings had been the topic of the 2020 Netflix movie ‘Misplaced Ladies.’

Figuring out who killed them, and why, has vexed a slew of seasoned murder detectives by means of a number of adjustments in police management. Final yr, an interagency job pressure was fashioned with investigators from the FBI, in addition to state and native police departments, aimed toward fixing the case.

The investigator charged with monitoring down the killer for years, ex-police chief James Burke, has been condemned in recent months for his handling of the case. 

Following his arrest, forensic investigators scoured Heuermann’s residence, where they retrieved a slew of items together with a freezer and a large haul of firearms.