Alleged Gilgo beach serial killer Rex Heuermann, 61, had a strange relationship with his parents, his longtime friend told The Post.
The architect, now charged with murdering seven sex workers between 1993 and 2010, lived in the same house where he was born in Massapequa, Long Island, and kept it exactly as it had been when he was a child.
“I keep thinking, where is the root? It’s something when he was young, maybe he could have been rejected by the girls in high school. But that happens to most guys anyway,” speculated David Jimenez, who appears in new Peacock documentary “The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets.”
“I wonder, if you look at a picture of his mother, did she look like these ladies? These victims were all, y’know, petite.
“Does he have a hatred, indirectly, for his own mother or his father he’s projecting here?” Jimenez continued.
Heuermann’s mother, Dolores, is now 95 and believed to still be alive, but no pictures of her have ever surfaced. His father, Theodore Heuermann, died in 1975 aged 50. Classmates have previously said Heuermann was bizarrely close to his “controlling” mother and was a “momma’s boy.”
Heuermann lived in the house with his wife, Asa Ellerup – who divorced him after almost 30 years shortly after he was arrested for the alleged murders in 2023 – and their two children from 1994 onward.
Neither Heuermann’s family or his friend had any idea he could be involved in the murders, which he has pleaded not guilty to, before his arrest.
“He ruled that house like the old 1950s style family. Traditional, he was very secure, very much a man, but in a very secure, masculine way, not in an obnoxious way.
“He looked after his wife and kids. He would protect [Asa]. He would look out for her when she was suffering from many of the physical ailments she has, especially later in life,” said Jimenez.
“I think that he has split personality, because the only side I ever saw of was as assured, smart, together, you know. When I heard all the details, DNA and everything that came out, I was shocked,” he added.
Heuermann’s trial has yet to begin. “The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets” is available to watch now on Peacock.