A New York woman who had the displeasure of meeting accused Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann says he wouldn’t stop talking about the Gilgo Beach murders and became agitated when she wouldn’t go home with him.
Nicole Brass, a former escort now working as a hairstylist, revealed in an interview on “CUOMO” that she went on a date with Heuermann in 2015 and felt “weirded out” by him during a restaurant date after she declined to go back to his home in Nassau County, as CrimeOnline previously reported.
Heuermann is now accused of killing three women in Long Island’s Gilgo Beach over a decade ago, but at the time, Brass had no idea he was involved. While on their date, according to Brass, he extensively discussed the Gilgo Beach killings.
“It didn’t seem like a true crime fan who just wanted to talk about it. His body language kind of changed and his eyes were, like, as if he was in (a) different place, like he was picturing it all over again,” Brass told Chris Cuomo.
“The way he talked about it seemed like somebody who really wanted to be able to brag about what they did but can’t.”
At one point during the date, according to Brass, the accused killer began talking about the burlap used to bound the victims’ bodies.
“(At one point) I said, ‘Who do you think it is, hypothetically?’ and he tried to put the blame on somebody and kind of relate it to the burlap sacks, just, I guess, to make me feel more comfortable,” Brass said.
“He almost kind of made the victims, like, seem like people who didn’t matter. So so I don’t know. I feel like he was just like, well, they were all escorts anyway, kind of saying or like, just little things like that.”
Heuermann is charged with the death of three of the four women known collectively as the “Gilgo Four.” The bodies were found within days of each other on Gilgo Beach in December 2010. All four women were buried in burlap sacks.
Heuerman has been charged with six counts of murder in the deaths of Melissa Barthelemy, 24; Megan Waterman, 22; and Amber Lynn Costello, 27; and is the prime suspect in the death of 25-year-old Maureen Brainard-Barnes.
Brainard-Barnes was abducted in 2007, Barthelemy in 2009, and Waterman and Costello in 2010. They were dubbed the “Gilgo Four” and their bodies were found wrapped in burlap sacks.
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[Featured image: Rex Heuermann/Suffolk County Police Department via AP]
