Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann is pen pals with famous psychos behind bars: sheriff

Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann is getting fan mail from other notorious psychos while he cools his heels in the Suffolk County lockup — including one high-profile maniac, The Post has learned.Heuermann, 62, who pleaded guilty Wednesday to strangling eight sex workers to death over the past three decades, has no friends while living in “voluntary isolation” at the county jail — but has his share of infamous pen pals including one notorious killer “out in the west,” Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon said.“He was receiving letters from other incarcerated individuals throughout the country — almost like a pen pal,” Toulon said.“We’re not allowed to read these letters, but we can see on the incoming correspondence, on the envelope.” Toulon wouldn’t say who those creepy pen pals were, but a report by the Daily Mail this week said one is “Happy Face Killer” Keith Jesperson, who is locked up for killing eight women between 1990 and 1995.Jesperson said he advised Heuermann “not to go to trial” following the hulking architect’s 2023 bust, and urged him not to waste time going through a high-profile trial, the outlet said.

“He was done,” Jesperson told the Mail.“[I told him] that his best way forward was to make a deal to plead guilty in exchange for a better place to do his life — what life he has left.”Jesperson has meddled in other high-profile murder cases, including trying to get University of Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger to bunk with him at the Oregon State Penitentiary for his own safety.Last year, he wrote podcaster and former prison minister Keith Rovere that Kohberger would be safer by his side, a bizarre screed later shared with Fox News.“His best hope is to be transferred (sic) to here, the max prison in Oregon, to be away from those who want to make a name for themselves by killing him,” Jesperson wrote.Toulon wouldn’t say just how many letters Heuermann has gotten from other killers, but said the hu...