Exclusive | Rex Heuermann zeroed in on prostitutes as they were easy targets but respects women in everyday life, pal claims
Alleged Gilgo beach serial killer Rex Heuermann targeted sex workers because he knew few people would look for them, according to his friend.Hulking Heuermann, 61, is awaiting trial over the murders of seven women on Long Island and stands accused of luring petite, younger ladies with the promise of money for sex before killing them and dumping their bodies along Ocean Parkway, near his Long Island home.“I don’t think it’s because he has a hatred of sex workers. It’s that they were easy targets for him,” David Jimenez, who first met Heuermann’s in 2006, told The Post.“I’m not a psychiatrist, but I don’t think it’s the fact that they’re hookers is the reason he’s killing.I think he’s killing him because he wanted to kill.“And they were the easiest prey,” added Jimenez, who tells of his friendship with Heuermann in new documentary “The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets.”“Nobody supposedly cares [about sex workers] and he found them the easiest targets.
It’s so warped I don’t even know what to make of it.”Proseuctors say Heuermann has killed seven women since 1993 and dumped their bodies, with the remains found between 2010 and 2011.Heuermann has pleaded not guilty to the murder charges against him.
The women he is accused of murdering are: Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Sandra Costilla, Jessica Taylor, Valerie Mack, Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy and Amber Costello.Police say they uncovered a raft of heinous sex searches on Heuermann’s computers and phones including: “Tied up fat girl porn,” “Skinny white teen crying porn,” “medieval torture of women” and “skinny black slave girl,” according to court papers, which have also revealed ‘planning documents’ he kept on his computers.However, Jimenez – who met father-of-two Heuermann as they both worked in the architecture business and used to shoot and hunt together – says there were no outward clues about Heuermann, who was married and lived in the sa...