Some people have a knack for making friends, others for making bodies disappear.

This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske.

They say skeletons in the closet stay there for a reason.

But sometimes just when a family is already drowning in scandal, one more falls out and lands with a thud.

That's exactly what happened with the Hewerman family.

By now, you've probably heard the name Rex Hewerman, the unassuming architect accused of being

the Gilgo Beach serial killer. His arrest in 2023 sent shockwaves through Long Island and beyond.

But just when the world thought it had uncovered the darkest secret in

the Hewerman bloodline, another one surfaced. Because Rex wasn't the only one with horrifying

allegations attached to his name. A closer look at his extended family revealed something,

chilling. His cousin, a respected Lutheran pastor, had been accused of systematic child abuse that spanned

nearly a decade. His name was Reverend Kenneth Hureman, and the accusations against him weren't

vague whispers. They were part of a lawsuit filed in a court of law. Kenneth had been dead for

months before this story broke. If he had lived just a little longer, the headlines would

have come for him too. This is the story of a pastor who allegedly used his religious authority

to pray on a child, how the church ignored the victim's cries for help, and how in the end,

the world only learned about his dark past because of a completely unrelated

serial murder case. Kenneth Heuerman was exactly the kind of man people don't question.

A pastor at St. Michael's Lutheran Church in Camillus, New York, he spent decades behind the pulpit,

delivering sermons about morality, sin, and redemption. A trusted figure,

a respected leader. The kind of man who presided over baptisms and funerals, but according to a

lawsuit filed in 2019, behind the scenes, he was something else entirely. The allegations came from

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