Billy Baldwin Says He Went To School With Gilgo Beach Killing Suspect

MASSAPEQUA PARK, NY — Billy Baldwin, actor and brother of Alec Baldwin, tweeted Friday morning that he went to high school with Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect Rex Heuermann.

"Woke up this morning to learn that the Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect was my high school classmate Rex Heuermann," Baldwin said, adding that he was from the Class of 1981 at Berner High School in Massapequa.

"Married, two kids, architect," Baldwin wrote. "'Average guy… quiet, family man.'" Mind-boggling… Massapequa is in shock."

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Heuermann, of Massapequa Park, was taken into custody by Suffolk County, Nassau County, and state police News 12 reported.

Since 2011, at least 11 sets of remains have been found along Ocean Parkway. Police have searched for a serial killer ever since.

On Friday, law enforcement swarmed a small red house in the suburb about 40 miles east of midtown Manhattan. Dozens of neighbors watched, along with police and media, as investigators in protective suits gathered outside the front porch, which The Associated Press described as being in disrepair, with its roof propped up by 2-by-4s.

Neighbors told Patch and AP the home belonged to a family that had long kept to themselves.

“I passed the house all the time. I never really [saw] anybody outside," a 20-year-old neighbor told Patch, who has lived in the neighborhood for more than 15 years. He did not want be identified. "It’s just a house you don’t go to. Trick or treating, you just stay away. You just know that there’s danger there. Parents were always like, ‘Don’t go up the street too far.’”
Nikki Hall, who lives nearby, told Patch: “It’s crazy to think that going food shopping we could have passed him. Just thinking of that alone gives me the creeps.”

She added: “I never thought something like this would have happened in this area. You hear about these things, and you hear about these cases, but you never think it’s going to be this close to home.”