Neighbors of the Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect have said he was ‘intimidating’ and was once caught rambling about ‘the girls.’
Jimmy Mack, who lives a couple of blocks away from Rex Heuermann’s ‘dungeon-like’ home, revealed to DailyMail.com his run ins with the suspected murderer.
He claimed he once caught him babbling at the end of his driveway about ‘the girls’ while he was drunk and when he thought no one was listening.
Mack said that when he asked Heuermann what he was doing he blasted him over his car and threatened to slash his tires.
Meanwhile another neighbor said they found 6ft 4in Heuermann ‘intimidating’ and once walked past him working in his garage and he never even looked up.
Heuermann has been arrested and charged with the murder of three of the ‘Gilgo Four’.
Jimmy Mack, (left) who lives a couple of blocks away from Rex Heuermann’s (right) ‘dungeon-like’ home, revealed to DailyMail.com his run ins with the suspected murderer
Police were seen searching the property for ‘trophies’ that may be linked to the victims for a seventh day on Thursday
The architect lived in a ‘dungeon-like’ Massapequa Park home just 18 miles away from Gilgo Beach with his wife Asa Ellerup
Mack, 51, who owns a trucking company and lives with his wife and three step kids, recalled a terrifying encounter with Heuermann outside his Long Island home.
Heuermann was walking home from the LIRR station past Mack’s house on March 2, a regular route for the architect, when a confrontation between the men broke out.
Mack was smoking a cigarette on his porch at close to 10pm and overheard a man Heuermann talking, he told DailyMail.com.
‘I’m sitting on my porch and he doesn’t see me but I hear him saying ‘oh here we are again… I told them I told the girls.”
Mack said Heuermann didn’t realize he was there and appeared startled. He appeared intoxicated and continued to babble to himself at the end of Mack’s driveway. Mack explained that he asked him, ‘bro are you talking to my house?’
Heuermann responded: ‘Are you the a**hole that owns this car?’ adding aggressively that he would return in 15 minutes to slash his tires.
Alarmed, Mack said ‘we either handle our business now or I never f***ing see you again’ and chased the man down his driveway.
Mack then followed his neighbor in his car, recalling that he felt ‘something ain’t right. I need to know where this guy lives.’
He saw Heuermann jump over his neighbor’s fence and shield his face as he escaped.
Mack said the confrontation and the air of unease he felt, meant he ‘knew something was up for me to get back in my car and follow this guy to his house.’
Law enforcement load a pair of skates into a truck from Rex Heuermann’s home on Thursday
The first victim, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, was discovered by Suffolk County Police on December 11, 2010. The body of Megan Waterman, 22, was found two days later
Maureen Brainard-Barnes was 25 years old when she went missing (left). Amber Lynn Costello was 27 years old. Their bodies were found near Barthelemy’s the same day
In addition to his cluttered home, Heuermann kept two storage units in Amityville. They were searched yesterday and today
He also told his neighbors about the confrontation and warned them about where the man lived.
He remembers telling his friends and family ‘if something happens to this house or anything, its this guy’ adding ‘that’s how much I knew that there was something wrong with this.’
Another neighbor, who lives just round the corner from Heuerman and who wanted to remain anonymous, said ‘he was always tinkering in the garage or outside and seemed very intimidating.’
On one occasion he walked past and saw Heuermann was building a chair while wearing a leather apron and barely looked up.
The dog was also often in the backyard barking incessantly at times, the neighbor told DailyMail.com.
Police believe at least one of the Gilgo Beach victims was killed at the Long Island home of the serial killer suspect.
Detectives in South Carolina are now reviewing a near-decade-old missing person case to see whether Heuermann may have been involved, DailyMail.com exclusively revealed on Wednesday.
Cops in Rock Hill, just 20 miles from where Heuermann bought a wild 18-acre plot of land confirmed they are looking anew at the case of Aaliyah Bell Hall who went missing in 2014.
Rex Heuermann bought 18 acres of undeveloped land 20 miles from where Aaliyah went missing. Now the family hopes police will search it to see if any bodies are buried there
Land registry documents revealed that Rex Heuermann purchased $154,000 worth of land in Chester in 2021, with neighbors saying he had planned to create a ‘compound’ with his brother who lives on the property
A spokesman for Rock Hill Police Department told DailyMail.com: ‘We have not been contacted by any other agencies. But we are reviewing the case and investigating any potential links or matching timeframes regarding Aaliyah Bell’s disappearance with Rex Heuermann.’
Law enforcement sources also told CBS NEWS detectives are now looking into unsolved murders across the country to see if they are linked to Heuermann, 59. Cops say He was behind the deaths of three sex workers in 2010 who were buried at Giglo Beach. He is the prime suspect in a fourth killing.
Police were seen searching the property for ‘trophies’ that may be linked to the victims for a seventh day on Thursday. Investigators are also looking at his time share in Las Vegas and a property he owned in South Carolina.
DailyMail.com previously spotted one investigator carrying a note listing some of the evidence found inside, including a rope kept in a vault, and handcuff keys in a shelf underneath a work bench.
Investigators have also been searching two storage units connected to Heuermann and on Wednesday several boxes were spotted outside one. Blue tarp and white tents have been erected outside the unit to close off the scene.
Police have also revealed Heuermann may have ties to Atlantic City in New Jersey, and they have expanded their investigation into a fourth state.
Cops are probing whether he operated in the area, and have been interviewing jailed sex workers who interacted with him.
‘He had reached out to them for sex,’ Sheriff Errol Toulon from the Suffolk County police department told Good Morning America about the prostitutes officials have talked to. ‘They took the calls but did not meet with him.’
The update from law enforcement comes after it was revealed the Gilgo Beach killings have similarities to murders in the area by the ‘Eastbound Strangler,’ who killed four sex workers by strangling them near Atlantic City.
