Rex Heuermann, an architect who has been charged in a string of killings on Long Island, has allegedly been years behind on paying several thousand dollars in taxes, frequently filed lawsuits claiming he was hurt in car accidents, and is still a resident of his childhood home.
Rex Heuermann, who authorities allege murdered at least three people, revealed in a 2018 deposition that he lived in the same house he grew up in, a few miles across the water from the beach where bodies were discovered more than a decade ago.
According to court records, Rex Heuermann filed four lawsuits in New York courts between 2014 and 2022 against drivers he claimed had hit him with their cars, causing “serious and permanent personal injuries.” While the other three lawsuits were resolved or put to rest, the most recent one is still unresolved.
Rex Heuermann detailed his life and job in an April 2018 deposition in one of the cases, indicating that he resided at his childhood home in the Long Island town of Massapequa Park with his wife of 22 years, daughter, and stepson.
When questioned if he participated in sports during the deposition, Rex Heuermann responded, “Really, the only sport I competed in was competition rifle.
It appears that Rex Heuermann has struggled to pay his taxes for more than ten years. Rex Heuermann was the target of six tax liens the IRS filed in Nassau County between 2010 and 2021, according to documents from that county.
Rex Heuermann and his wife, Asa Ellerup, are currently owed more than $81,500 in personal income tax to the state, according to the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance. The tax bills have accumulated since November 2020.
The technical and even tedious work Rex Heuermann has done as an architect is described in other court documents. According to a letter he submitted to an attorney, Rex Heuermann evaluated water damage on a Manhattan building last year and provided an analysis of recommended waterproofing. Emails he sent in 2017 while arranging a restoration project in the Bronx are revealed in records filed in another case.
Fire inspectors ordered two dozen families to leave a Harlem apartment building that Rex Heuermann had been paid to refurbish in September 2007 after it was deemed unsafe, according to a story from the New York Daily News at the time. According to the Daily News, the New York City Buildings Department commissioner stated that the department was looking into whether Rex Heuermann had misrepresented the building as being vacant.
On city documents pertaining to the building that states it would be unoccupied during construction, Rex Heuermann is listed. Despite conducting audits of numerous projects where Rex Heuermann served as the architect of record in 2007, the buildings department, according to a representative for the department, did not uncover “any pattern of false filings nor significant disregard for DOB regulations,” and no disciplinary action was taken.