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"Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann is getting fan mail from other notorious psychos while he cools his heels in the Suffolk County lockup — including one high-profile maniac, The Post has learned.

Heuermann, 62, who pleaded guilty Wednesday to strangling eight sex workers to death over the past three decades, has no friends while living in “voluntary isolation” at the county jail — but has his share of infamous pen pals including one notorious killer “out in the west,” Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon said.

“He was receiving letters from other incarcerated individuals throughout the country — almost like a pen pal,” Toulon said. “We’re not allowed to read these letters, but we can see on the incoming correspondence, on the envelope.”

Toulon wouldn’t say who those creepy pen pals were, but a report by the Daily Mail this week said one is “Happy Face Killer” Keith Jesperson, who is locked up for killing eight women between 1990 and 1995.

Jesperson said he advised Heuermann “not to go to trial” following the hulking architect’s 2023 bust, and urged him not to waste time going through a high-profile trial, the outlet said.

“He was done,” Jesperson told the Mail. “[I told him] that his best way forward was to make a deal to plead guilty in exchange for a better place to do his life — what life he has left.”

Jesperson has meddled in other high-profile murder cases, including trying to get University of Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger to bunk with him at the Oregon State Penitentiary for his own safety.

Last year, he wrote podcaster and former prison minister Keith Rovere that Kohberger would be safer by his side, a bizarre screed later shared with Fox News.

“His best hope is to be transferred (sic) to here, the max prison in Oregon, to be away from those who want to make a name for themselves by killing him,” Jesperson wrote.

Toulon wouldn’t say just how many letters Heuermann has gotten from other killers, but said the hulking 6-foot-4 former architect with a recent weight-related “oozing” foot problem is not getting any love letters while he waits to be sentenced to three life terms in June.

The Massapequa Park schlub is a loner behind bars, kept apart from other inmates and leaving only for court dates and solitary walks around the prison yard, the sheriff said.

“When Rex comes out of his cell all inmate movement in this entire facility ceases,” Toulon said. “He has religious services brought in, mental health brought to him. He does seek out the Catholic faith.”

He said Heuermann has also been putting on weight — likely from the jailhouse commissary and not from the regular fare served to inmates — and does little to lose his massive gut.

“He doesn’t do exercises on machines or play basketball,” Toulon added. “He does laps around the yard. It’s a big court area. About 30 times around is a mile.”"

https://nypost.com/2026/04/09/us-news/gilgo-beach-serial-killer-rex-heuermann-is-pen-pals-with-famous-psychos-behind-bars-sheriff/

Who is putting money into his books?

"A piece of evidence that would've been presented had the case gone to trial is a rolled up Bounty paper towel recovered from Waterman's mouth, Tierney said.

Waterman, 22, went missing in June 2010 and her remains were found in December 2010 in Gilgo Beach, according to Suffolk County police.

The paper towel had a particular pattern that Bounty created specifically for the box store BJ's Wholesale Club, and that pattern was only in circulation in 2010, Tierney said.

When searching Heuermann's home, investigators found a BJ's receipt for Bounty paper towels, and "the SKU [stock-keeping unit] number was for a Bounty paper towel with that same pattern," Tierney said.

"And so we were able to show that this Bounty paper towel was purchased by the defendant," Tierney said. "And inside his desk drawer was a square of that same paper towel that matched perfectly and that he had kept in his office since 2010."

That paper towel square was a "memento" for Heuermann, Tierney said, adding that prosecutors "would have utilized [that] at trial to link him to the commission of that particular murder.""

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gilgo-beach-murders-paper-towel-142100015.html

So he kept the paper towel square from June 2010 till he was arrested in July 2023. That pattern was in circulation from the beginning of 2010 to the end of 2010.

"District Attorney Ray Tierney is now asking Heuermann a series of questions.

He is asking Heuermann mostly yes or no questions.

Tierney asks if he caused the death of Melissa Barthelemy and how. "Strangulation," Heuermann says.

He confirms that he left her body on the beach.

Heuermann has little emotion on his face as he is asked whether he murdered each of the eight women and left their bodies near the beach."

_Some of the family members of the victims are wiping away tears as he speaks._

"It's a strange setting in the courtroom, as District Attorney Tierney continues to ask Heuermann a series of yes or no questions.

He asks him whether he killed each victim by strangulation, and whether he bound the women in the same way.

Heuermann continues to answer each question with mostly "Yes", not registering any emotion as he looks directly at the district attorney.

Meanwhile, occasional cries from relatives of the victims in the first few rows can be heard.

It is unclear if Heuermann will say anything beyond the mostly yes or no questions prosecutors are asking."

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ce3d796w0d4t