NEW YORK POST
Fellow Suffolk County inmate Philip Walker, in an exclusive jailhouse interview with The Post, warned, “I don’t think people would be too happy if he was in population. I don’t think it would be good if he was moved into population. I could see someone doing something to him.”
The inmate was referring to “general population” cells in Suffolk County Correctional Facility in Riverhead, LI. Heuermann, 59, has been kept away from other prisoners in the jail and remains on suicide watch in an isolated cell.
Heuerman was charged last week in the murders of three sex workers, and investigators are working to find links to at least six other bodies found at Gilgo Beach.
Walker, 56, has been in custody at Riverhead on second-degree murder charges since July 3, after allegedly stabbing 63-year-old housemate James Vaughn to death in a motel in Shirley, LI.
But the accused killer says Heuermann’s alleged murders are unforgivable.
“Crimes against women and girls, especially killing them, is frowned upon here. A lot of us have sisters, daughters, mothers. No one likes guys who did crimes like that,” said Walker, wearing a navy jumpsuit.
He continued: “Most people in here are from Long Island” and familiar with the Gilgo Beach murders.
Walker has yet to see Heuermann because all inmate movement is halted when he’s moved around the 840-bed facility.
Who is Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann?
A suspected serial killer has been arrested over the notorious Gilgo Beach murders in Long Island, The Post can confirm.
Rex Heuermann, 59, a married dad of two and architect at a New York City firm, has a home on 1st Avenue in Massapequa Park, sources told The Post.
His arrest is tied to the “Gilgo Four,” four women — Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, Amber Lynn Costello, 27, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25 — found wrapped in burlap within days of each other in 2010.
The body of Barthelemy was first found along Ocean Parkway on Dec. 11, 2010, sparking fears of a serial killer in the area.
By spring 2011, the number of bodies had climbed to 10, including eight women as well as an unidentified man and toddler.
Heuermann’s arrest comes after Suffolk County’s new police commissioner created a special Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation Task Force in February 2022.
