Victims Advocate,Freelance Podcast Writer, Justice Seeker & Criminal Enthusiast.
Threading Justice W/Humanity.
*In a world where you can be anything, be KIND
Mirror to Heaven.
Rome’s Hidden Miracle
The ceiling of Sant’Ignazio di Loyola isn’t curved…
It’s completely flat. Andrea Pozzo’s 17th-century trompe-l’œil masterpiece tricks your eyes into seeing infinity.
Pure magic.
🍓 Most people don't know this:
strawberries aren't actually berries.
In fact, bananas and tomatoes are true berries but strawberries aren't.
And those tiny "seeds" on the outside? They're actually individual fruits.
Meet Doug.🦔Found in a trench at a building site, he was caked in mud, exhausted and unable to climb out.
By the time he reached us, he was dehydrated and very hungry. After a gentle check-over and some much-needed fluids, Doug didn’t hesitate when his first meal was offered… 😊
Rex Heuermann corresponds with serial killer, reads grisly novels in jail, Suffolk sheriff says
Rex A. Heuermann is an avid reader of grisly novels who still gets weekly visits from his ex-wife and has corresponded with a convicted murderer in the three years he has been the most notorious person living in a Long Island jail.
The admitted Gilgo Beach serial killer has become a solitary figure behind bars, a large man trying to make his world as small as possible, jail officials said. He has not befriended other inmates, officials said. He does not chitchat with correction officers. He does not attend religious services, support groups or classes. His only vice appears to be the cookies he buys from the jail commissary.
His disposition has also not changed since he arrived at Suffolk County’s Riverhead Correctional Facility, where Heuermann has spent more than 1,000 days in voluntary segregation after his arrest on July 13, 2023, and since April 8, when he pleaded guilty to strangling eight women during a 17-year killing spree, Suffolk Sheriff Errol D. Toulon Jr. said in an exclusive interview with Newsday at the Riverhead jail in May.
"He’s shown no emotion this entire time that he’s been incarcerated," said Toulon, the official entrusted with keeping Heuermann safe in a facility that also serves hundreds of other prisoners and where Heuermann is awaiting sentencing. "No remorse, no, ‘What am I doing here?’ No, ‘I didn’t do this.’ No head against the bars, no head in his hands. He’s been very stoic."
Heuermann, 62, pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and acknowledged he had also killed an eighth in a case that shocked Long Island and the nation, both for the cruelty of the crimes and the shortcomings of Suffolk County law enforcement in the early years of the investigation. Suffolk Supreme Court Justice Timothy Mazzei is expected to sentence him to life in an upstate prison, without the possibility of parole, on June 17 in Riverhead.
"He will go off in a bus and come home in a body bag," Toulon said.
In April, he pleaded guilty to the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Amber Lynn Costello, Jessica Taylor, Valerie Mack and Sandra Costilla, and admitted to the uncharged killing of Karen Vergata.
Macabre fiction and thrillers
Heuermann was a Manhattan architect with a family. Now he spends most of his time in a 6-by-9-foot cell, the sheriff said.
"This is the weirdest individual I’ve ever dealt with in 44 years in this business," Toulon said, rolling out Heuermann's routine and hidden jail life.
For exercise, the Massapequa Park resident walks by himself in the jail’s recreation yard. "He won’t play basketball, he won’t do dips, he won’t do pushups," Toulon said. "I don’t think he’s that athletic."
Heuermann likes to read mostly macabre fiction and thrillers, according to Toulon. The titles of the books he has checked out of the jail’s library during his incarceration are chilling.
Some of the titles he has read include "Blood on the Beach," by Robin Stevenson and Sarah N. Harvey, "Portrait in Death," by J.D. Robb, "Secret Prey," by John Sandford, "The Dead Girl," by Melanie Thernstrom and "Heart of Evil," by Heather Graham.
"He’s not reading books about self-help," Toulon said.
Heuermann has received very little mail during his incarceration, but one correspondent does stick out: Keith Hunter Jesperson, the "Happy Face Killer," who is serving a life sentence in Oregon for killing eight women. Jail officials do not read inmates’ mail, so it’s not known what the two killers have discussed.
"It just goes to show this network of killers in the United States that wants to communicate with each other because of the horrific crimes that they have committed," Toulon said.
John Travolta practiced the "You Should Be Dancing" solo for 9 months.
He threatened to quit the movie if they used a stunt double. That’s pure "main character" energy.
The #FBI offers a reward of up to $25,000 for info leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the deaths of longtime friends Carnell E. Sledge and Katherine C. Brown on June 4, 2019, in Fairview Park, Ohio: https://t.co/HaYnxagaPG
Not all DNA testing is the same. Because DNA evidence is finite, every decision matters. The way DNA is tested and the resulting data is used can determine whether a case is solved or reaches a dead end. #dnasolves
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