Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect Rex Heuerman is a ‘marked man’ and will be attacked if removed from protective custody, an inmate has warned.
Philip Walker told the New York Post from the Suffolk County Correctional Facility that Heuerman, 59, was not safe in the general prison population.
Heuerman, who is accused of killing three women and suspected of killing a fourth, is currently being held in a separate section of the facility.
According to Walker, a large number of people inside the prison came from Long Island, where Gilgo Beach is located, and knew about the murders.
He said: ‘I don’t think people would be very happy if he was in the population. I don’t think it would be good if he was transferred to the population. I can see someone doing something with him.
‘Crimes against women and girls, especially their murder, are frowned upon here. Many of us have sisters, daughters, mothers. No one likes those who have committed such crimes.’
Heuerman, 59, was dramatically taken into custody on the street earlier this month on suspicion of some of New York state’s most gruesome and unsolved murders.
According to Walker, the entire Suffolk County Jail pictured here went into lockdown when he had to move around the jail.
Doshi added that most people in the county jail were from Long Island and knew about the Gilgo Beach murders.
According to Walker, the entire prison went into lockdown when Heuerman was moved around.
He added: ‘When they took him to the yard, everything stopped, medical, whatever. We all know it’s for him.’
Heuerman was dramatically arrested earlier this month outside his Fifth Avenue farm in midtown Manhattan, 13 years after the discovery of four bodies on Gilgo Beach, all wrapped in camouflage burlap sacks.
In total, 11 bodies, including a child, were found along the same stretch.
He is accused of killing three Gilgo Beach victims – Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello. He pleaded not guilty.
He is also considered the prime suspect in the death of a fourth woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes.
Her body was found wrapped and hidden in thick underbrush along a remote beach highway, and authorities have not ruled out further murder charges.
Melissa Barthelemy, top left, Amber Costello, top right, Megan Waterman, bottom left, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes. Long Island authorities vow to continue investigating Gilgo Beach killings after an architect was charged with the deaths of three of the 11 people.
A fleet of forensic investigators has been combing the 59-year-old architect’s ‘dungeon-like’ Massapequa Park home since his arrest.
DailyMail.com spotted an investigator carrying a note with some of the evidence found inside
Among the items on the list were a rope in a vault, a torn man’s shirt with stains in a bag, and handcuff keys on a shelf under a workbench.
It’s unclear when those specific items were cleared from the home or if they were tied to the investigation, but officers are searching the property for ‘trophies’ that may be linked to the victims.
Police recovered more than 200 caches of weapons from the house last Sunday.
Neighbors previously said the suspected serial killer was always terrifying, leading some adults to instruct their children to avoid their suburban home.
Heuerman, pictured here, is also considered the prime suspect in the death of a fourth woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes.
Suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuerman left a torn, stained shirt and handcuffed keys in a workshop at his Long Island home.
A fleet of forensic investigators search through the 59-year-old architect’s ‘dungeon-like’ Massapequa Park home
Forensic investigators continue to comb through Human’s possessions
A neighbor, Étienne Devilliers, said Wednesday that Heuermann peeked over their fence to watch his wife sunbathe when they first entered.
He said that at first he thought Heuerman was ‘just being friendly’, but later the conversation between the two was ‘unpleasant’, although he was always ‘friendly and pleasant’ after the incident.
He described Human’s wife as ‘equally odd’ and ‘very withdrawn’ and mostly kept to herself.
The investigation into Heuerman now spans at least three states, including South Carolina where he owns property and Nevada where he owns a condo in Sin City.
Earlier this week it was revealed that Heuermann’s wife, Asa Ellerup, had filed for divorce in New York, which was described as ‘uncontested’.