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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Accused Serial Killer Rex Heuerman's Flirty Nickname

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

He's accused of being a serial killer, but some of his co-workers gave him a nickname, Sexy Rexy.

Reportely, Rex Heuerman was the 'perfect' co-worker and 'life of the party.  Now more potential new witnesses have come forward with information connecting  Heuermann to the Long Island Serial Killer murders.

One of the witnesses worked in a bank during the day and drove a taxicab at night. She signed an affidavit that she picked up Shannan Gilbert from a Sayville motel, but when she got the order from dispatch, was told the person she was picking up was so afraid she was hiding in a locked bathroom.

The rider would only come out if the taxi driver flashes her lights and beeps the horn.   The cab driver says she showed up to the motel, flashed her lights, and beeped her horn but nobody came out of the motel. However, she did see "a giant man' fitting the description of Rex Heuermann come out of the motel.  When the girl finally comes out, she is crying.

The driver believes this person was Shannan Gilbert

Another witness claims Heuermann and his wife were swingers, and Karen Vergata took part in a party at Heuermann's home. A third potential witness contacted attorney John Ray and says she remembers being picked up by Rex Heuermann. She says he threatened her with a gun. 

The fourth potential new witness claims she was a sex worker for many years, including the time the killings occurred. She said Heuermann was a serial user of sex workers, and he would sometimes have them come to his house, with his wife upstairs,

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

  • John Ray - Attorney for the family of Shannan Gilbert
  • Dr. Joni Johnston – Forensic Psychologist and Private Investigator (performs risk and threat assessments on violent offenders); Author: “Serial Killers: 101 Questions True Crime Fans Ask”
  • Robin Dreeke – Behavior Expert & Retired FBI Special Agent / Chief of the FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program; Author: “Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agents Manual for Behavior Prediction;” Twitter: @rdreeke 
  • Dr. Kendall Crowns – Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth), Lecturer: University of Texas Austin and Texas Christian University Medical School
  • Mary Murphy – Investigative Reporter, PIX11 News, New York City (WPIX TV); Recipient of 30 New York Emmy awards; Facebook: Mary Murphy Mystery, Instagram: @marymurphypix, Twitter: @MurphyPIX 

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.8

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

0:11.4

Rex Hewerman.

0:13.2

The name will live forever in infamy along names like Ted Bundy, BTK,

0:20.0

buying torture, kill, Dennis Raider, Timothy McVeigh, Charles Manson,

0:27.6

oh gosh, I could go on. Rex Hiramon, the alleged Long Island serial killer awaiting trial, we know what he did to his victims.

0:42.2

Horrific, horrific, horrific murders after horrific, horrific, horrific, sex torture while his wife

0:50.0

and children were out of town in a basement dungeon, then burying them so he could look at

0:58.5

their graves every day when he went to work on Long Island there at Gilgo Beach.

1:03.7

In the last hours, we find out about a whole other side of Rex Hewerman.

1:09.3

And that is tonight's Friday night special. And it is very,

1:15.1

very special. I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. I want to thank you for being with us.

1:21.7

Rex Heerman. Cops say he is the Long Island serial killer.

1:30.3

I believe he can be connected and will be connected to many, many other dead bodies.

1:38.3

But for tonight, for our Friday night special, we learned Rex Heurman was the quote, I hope you're sitting down,

1:45.3

the quote, perfect coworker and the, quote, life of the party at work get togethers, the life

1:54.6

of the party. We also learn Rex Eurman, the serial killer, had a, quote, sexy nickname.

2:05.2

Okay.

2:06.3

Rex Heuraman had a, quote, sexy nickname.

2:12.7

Okay, nothing is sexy about this guy.

2:16.6

If you look at the faces of all the women, he allegedly murdered.

2:24.0

One, two, three, four, five.

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