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Nearly thirty years ago, firefighter Etienne de Villiers and his family moved into a house on Long Island, unaware that an alleged serial killer was lurking right next to them.
Neighbor architect Rex Heuermann was arrested last summer and has been charged with six murders, and more are not ruled out once the investigation is complete. The oldest murder Heuermann is accused of occurred in 1993, two years before Etienne became his neighbor.
Now Etienne has spoken to the media about the incident. He said that Heuermann would not be described as a good thin man. Etienne’s wife liked to sunbathe in the garden and Heuermann had early on made a habit of staring at her while Etienne was working and trying to get her to chat with him.
“Every time she was out there and I was on duty at the fire station, Rex would stand by the fence and talk to her. She finally told me that she was really sick.”
Etienne then went to his neighbor and had a conversation with him about the behavior.
“I was chatting to him and he just said, ‘Oh no, I’m not staring, I’m just too high’… but I said ‘Rex, do it, stop it’.”
But Hoylmann did not allow himself to be told off and continued to stare at Etienne’s wife. Finally, the friendly fireman had to actually threaten his neighbor. Then he finally stopped.
“Not only did he stop, he wasn’t even mad. I was a little surprised that he didn’t like me. He just said okay, I’ll stop, and then he did it immediately.”
After that, the neighbors had a pretty good relationship. They weren’t friends, but they weren’t enemies either. Etienne said he was the only person in the neighborhood who had a friendly relationship with Hoylmann.
Three years after Etienne and Heuermann became neighbors, Heuermann married Asgar Gudbjörg Ellerup. Asgar had a son from a previous relationship, and two years after the wedding, Asgar and Rex’s daughter Victoria was born.
Etienne retired in 2004 but has struggled with PTSD since the fall of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. He is satisfied with his life’s work and has dedicated his life to saving lives. He said it was certainly strange that he lived next to a serial killer during this time. What is horrifying is that the women Hoylman was accused of killing were petite and beautiful. Etienne’s wife fits that description.
“She was petite, thin, a real bombshell. So now if you stop and think that people who were murdered looked like my wife, that’s suspicious.”
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