Rex Heuermann is seen on Google Street view pictures in NYC

Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann is seen on Google Street view pictures in NYC months before his arrest

• Rex Heuermann, 59, could be seen on Google Maps street view chatting with an unidentified woman in June 2022
• He apparently wore the same light blue shirt he wore in surveillance images released by the police and carried the same bag he had when he was arrested 
• Heuermann is now charged with the murders of three women whose bodies were found in burlap sacks on Long Island’s Gilgo Beach 

Suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann was caught on Google Maps street view cameras months before his arrest.

Heuermann, 59, could be seen chatting with an unidentified woman in June 2022 on East 36th Street near his midtown Manhattan office.

The architect appeared to be wearing the same light blue dress shirt he wore in surveillance images released by the police, and seemed to be carrying the same over-the-shoulder brown bag he had on him when he was arrested Thursday night.

In the photos, Heuermann is standing next to a young woman, who has her arms folded outside a Manhattan smoke shop.

Heuermann is now behind bars, charged with the murders of Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy and Amber Costello, who were all found dead in burlap sacks on Long Island’s Gilgo Beach. He has pleaded not guilty.

Police say they plan to also charge him with the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, a fourth woman found dead on the beach in 2010. He is also being investigated for the murders of six other women whose bodies were found near Gilgo Beach in 2011.

Rex Heuermann, 49, was caught on Google Maps street view outside his Manhattan office last year standing next to an unidentified young woman

The architect stood chatting with the woman on East 36th Street near his midtown Manhattan office

He appeared to be wearing the same light blue dress shirt he wore in surveillance images released by the police, and seemed to be carrying the same over-the-shoulder brown bag he had on him when he was arrested Thursday night

In the photos, Heuermann is standing next to a young woman, who has her arms folded outside a Manhattan smoke shop

Authorities say Heuermann used burner phones and multiple email accounts to search for sites depicting sexual violence, to reach sex workers and to keep up with the investigation of the murders.

He also allegedly used fake names for email accounts and phones ‘to conduct thousands of searches related to sex workers, sadistic, torture-related pornography and child pornography.’

Many of the search terms, prosecutors allege, focused on violent sexual acts involving minors.

Heuermann is charged with three murders attributed to the Gilgo Beach serial killer, and is the prime suspect in a fourth victim’s murder

Police also said Barthelemy’s burner phone was also used to make ‘taunting phone calls’ to her family members in the days after her disappearance, in which a male voice admitting to killing and sexually assaulting her.

All of the women he is charged with killing were strangled, but Suffolk County police say they worried Heuermann would strike again if they didn’t take him off the streets. 

‘He had an arsenal in a vault that he had downstairs. It’s concerning, regarding the guns being registered or legal or not, that’s something we’re still taking a look at,’ Suffolk County DA Ray Tierney said in an interview on CNN This Morning.

Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison also told FOX News on Monday: ‘Anytime somebody has that type of arsenal we have some concerns.’

He added that at 6ft 6 inches and weighing 275lbs, Heueremanm would have dominated the woman he is accused of murdering. 

‘He is an ogre,’ Harrison said of the suspect, who remains in jail awaiting his next court appearance. 

Heuermann’s wife Asa and their adult children are cooperating with the police investigation. 

Suffolk County Deputy Police Commissioner Anthony Carter also told CNN ‘anything is possible’ when it comes to charging Heuermann with more murders. 

He added that it was an ‘adrenaline rush’ to finally see him arrested on Thursday after watching him for more than a year. 

‘I knew that this person was a demon. The fact that we are able to bring some closure and some peace to the families as well as take a violent person off of the streets is rewarding, I think, for everyone.’ 

Among items of evidence seized from Heuermann’s home on Monday was what appeared to be a grenade

New York state police have removed a massive haul of weapons from suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann’s Long Island home on Sunday

The alleged serial killer also seemed to have kept sample price lists for weapons 

Forensics teams continue to remove evidence from Rex Heuermann’s home in Massapequa Park, Long Island 

Over the weekend, police searched two storage units in Amityville, a neighboring town, that belonged to Heuermann. 

And on Monday, police removed what looked like a grenade from his property in Massapequa Park. 

Heueremann had 200 guns in his home, according to police, and other weapons. 

An interior designer who spoke exclusively with DailyMail.com has told how the architect once became skittish when she tried to measure a room he said was filled with guns.

‘I didn’t understand why he was being so weird about it, and now I’m thinking “What was he hiding?” ‘ Katherine Shepherd said. ‘It was a big room. What was happening in that room? Is that where he took the women?’

Shepherd, 47, who worked with Heuermann for five years, spent three hours assessing his Massapequa Park, New York home for a renovation project in 2005 – just one of several close interactions she had had with him that have kept her awake at night since his arrest last week.

She described how she had developed a friendly, working relationship with the architect, sharing that Heuermann even once took her to a firing range in the Bronx where he taught her how to fire a 9mm handgun.

Shepherd said she would also regularly travel with Heuermann to job sites as a freelance interior designer.

At the time she found him smart and mostly friendly, but slightly socially awkward. 

She now likens him to a real-life Dexter, the Showtime character who led a double life as a serial killer.

‘He’s just like Dexter,’ she told DailyMail.com. ‘You’d never know if you met him. Dexter was also super normal and then he had that other side.’ 

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