This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Bruske.

There's a certain kind of silence that comes with suburbia, the kind where nothing seems

out of place. Lawns are trimmed, the porch lights flicker on right at dusk, and the people

behind those windows live lives that look perfectly ordinary

until you find out one of them might have been living a double life one half pta meetings

and grocery lists the other half bodies buried off ocean parkway that's a paradox of

Rex Heerman and the allegations against him.

The man accused of being the Gilgo Beach killer didn't look like a monster.

He looked like the guy designing your kitchen remodel.

The one who waved to the neighbors and shoveled his sidewalk.

That's what makes him so terrifying because the evil, if you believe the evidence, wasn't hiding

in the shadows.

It was hiding in plain sight.

So today, let's walk into the mind of someone like Hewerman.

Let's try to understand what kind of psychology it takes to build a life that splits so cleanly down the middle.

It's not an excuse for the behavior.

Again, it's trying to understand the mind.

Because that's how you get places.

Trying to understand.

Husband, father, architect, at one side, alleged sadist and murderer on the other.

The truth is, people like this rarely think of themselves as evil.

They think of themselves as in control.

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