Here is the photo of accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann with his Long Island high school drama club.
An Alfred Berner High School yearbook photo shows a gangly Heuermann, 59, standing awkwardly while surrounded by members of the Massapequa Park school’s drama club.
The future accused serial slayer is seen with a mop of hair on the second row of the snap, smiling while wearing a jean jacket and his glasses.
Paul Richards, who graduated from Berner High with Heuermann in 1981, said that he had a few classes with the Long Island architect and recalled his former classmate as having largely “kept to himself.”
“Rex was quiet, passive and shy,” Richards told The Post.
“I feel bad for his wife and children, tragic for them.”
The married father of two, who lives in Massapequa Park, was arrested Thursday and charged with three of the Gilgo Beach murders. He is considered a prime suspect in the killing of a fourth Gilgo victim.
Heuermann pleaded not guilty Friday to first- and second-degree murder charges.
Who is Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann?
A suspected serial killer has been arrested over the notorious Gilgo Beach murders in Long Island, The Post can confirm.
Rex Heuermann, 59, a married dad of two and architect at a New York City firm, has a home on 1st Avenue in Massapequa Park, sources told The Post.
His arrest is tied to the “Gilgo Four,” four women — Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, Amber Lynn Costello, 27, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25 — found wrapped in burlap within days of each other in 2010.
The body of Barthelemy was first found along Ocean Parkway on Dec. 11, 2010, sparking fears of a serial killer in the area.
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By spring 2011, the number of bodies had climbed to 10, including eight women as well as an unidentified man and toddler.
Heuermann’s arrest comes after Suffolk County’s new police commissioner created a special Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation Task Force in February 2022.
Among investigators’ evidence were cellphone records, analyses of burner phones, Google searches and Heuermann’s DNA from a half-eaten pizza linking him to the three women’s deaths.
