A Westchester interior designer said that she had a disturbing conversation with the accused Gilgo Beach serial killer mere months before he was arrested for allegedly carrying out the grizzly crimes, at one point laughing about the fact that “anyone could be the killer.”
Dominique Vidal spoke on TikTok video published Saturday about how she had been hanging out at a bar in Manhattan as part of a networking group with Massapequa Park resident Rex Heuermann, 59, when the now-accused murderer brought up the slayings while the two were discussing true crime podcasts.
“He asked me if I know – I’m not making this up at all – about the Gilgo Beach murders,” Vidal said. “I’m like, ‘Yeah, of course I know.’ And he goes on to tell me, ‘Yeah, that’s a serial killer that was never caught in my hometown, my neighborhood where I live. The guy killed like 10 people and might still be out there.'”
Vidal said she responded with a joke.
“’Yeah, you never know who you’re talking to. Anybody could be a serial killer. I could be a serial killer,’” she said. “And he laughed at that. And I just cannot stop running that conversation over and over in my head, and I’m really disturbed.”
Rex Heuermann’s Massapequa Park home. Photo Credit: Chris Boyle
Appearing distressed in the video, Vidal noted that she was not taken aback when she found out that he was accused of the Gilgo Beach killings.
“I can tell you right now that me and my boyfriend are not surprised that he is a serial killer. Just everything about him: his mannerisms, how full of himself that he was, how odd he was. He was always very sweaty and not very nice to talk to and creepy,” she said. “I’m still processing all of this, thinking over and over again about how I shook his hand, and how his hand felt, and I’m listening to the voicemails on my phone from him, and I’m going over his e-mails, and I’m looking at the photos of all of us at the Christmas party and the photos of him at our networking meetings in the conference room. And I’m just seeing this monster hiding in plain sight. And it all makes so much sense.”
“He was so full of himself,” she added. “I just thought he was an architect who thought he was like God’s gift to this world, but no, he’s literally a serial killer.”
On Thursday, July 13, Heuermann was arrested as a suspect in the Gilgo Beach case; he was charged the following day in the murders of three of “the Gilgo Four” victims: Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy, and Amber Costello. Authorities say he may have been involved with the deaths of additional victims connected to the case as well.
