Crime & Safety
Woman Shares Chilling Encounter With Accused Gilgo Killer: Report
The woman told the New York Post that Rex Heuermann would "pop out" everywhere she went at Brady Park earlier this month.

MASSAPEQUA PARK, NY — A woman revealed a chilling encounter she said she had with Rex Heuermann — the man charged with murder in the Gilgo Beach serial killings — earlier this month at a Massapequa park.
The woman, who identified herself only as Ally, said she saw Heuermann at Brady Park, near his First Avenue home in Massapequa Park.
“He had very dirty clothes on. He popped right out of the woods. Everywhere I went in the woods he would pop out," the woman told the Post.
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He approached her twice on July 3, she said.
"The first time he came up behind me I felt like breathing behind me," she said.
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The 25-year-old woman told the New York Post the interaction left her so shaken that she filed a police report.
Heuermann appeared in court Friday on six murder counts in connection with the serial killings, which date back more than a decade. He pleaded not guilty.
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