CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace has choice words for the notorious BTK serial killer, who apparently takes credit for accused Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann’s mode of operation.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, Dennis Rader, who was arrested in 2005 after killing 10 people in Kansas, claims that Heuremann is a copycat, after hearing details surrounding the Gilgo Beach murders.
Rader told Fox News Digital that said he spotted numerous similarities between himself and Heuermann, who was arrested in Manhattan on July 13 for the deaths of three women found at Long Island’s Gilgo Beach in 2010.
Heuermann, a 59-year-old married architect with two children, had been living unnoticed in a Massapequa Park home, near the former Nassau County Police Academy, while commuting to Manhattan for work.
“I was arrested age 59. Married, two kids,” Rader said in a letter to Fox News Digital. “Husband, dad longtime a serial killer, stalker, used electronic devices, lives in a neighborhood undetected.”
Police arrested Rader after he eluded and taunted investigators and the media for years. His trail of digital evidence is what eventually helped police capture him. He then nicknamed himself “BTK.” which stands for “bind, torture, kill.”
Heuermann’s digital trail, in part, helped police catch him. Police also found “torture porn” in his posession, while the Gilgo Beach victims were found tied up and wrapped in burlap sacks.
“BTK, Shut your pie hole!” Grace said. “I’ve heard enough of you. You are a serial killer and I don’t care what you have to say and I don’t want to hear it. ”
Grace also touched on earlier reports that investigators found a soundproof room inside Heueremann’s home. Officials later said that although no soundproof room was found in the residence, they did find a vault with numerous guns inside.
“Whether it’s called a vault or a soundproof room, in my mind, is irrelevant,” Grace said. “What is relevant, is what, if any evidence, is found in that locked room.”
As CrimeOnline previously reported, Heuermann was arrested July 13 for the deaths 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.
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.
He remains behind bars at the Suffolk County Correctional Facility in Riverhead, without bail. Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon said Heuremann is in an isolated cell alone and appears to be “comfortable.”
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[Feature Photo: Dennis Rader/Police Handout; Rex Heuermann/Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office via AP]
