Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Suspect Owes $70K In NYC Wage Theft Case

NEW YORK CITY — Turns out the suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer may have been a real stingy boss.

At least that's the accusation from a new wage theft lawsuit filed against Rex Heuermann in Manhattan.

Heuermann owes a former employee at his Midtown architecture firm nearly $70,000 in back wages, according to the suit filed Tuesday by state labor officials.

The civil lawsuit pales in comparison to Heuermann's primary legal concern: his charges in the killings of Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Lynn Costello and Megan Waterman, and prime suspect status in the death of Maureen Brainard-Barnes.

All four women were sex workers whose bodies were found along Ocean Parkway in Long Island's Gilgo Beach.

The serial killings long went unsolved until authorities this summer accused Heuermann, 59, of Massapequa Park, of being behind them. He has pleaded not guilty to six murder counts.

Heuermann had worked as an architect and building facilitator in New York City, where his company did work in the Empire State Building, a Wall Street tower owned by Donald Trump and numerous other projects.

The lawsuit states Heuermann's firm — RH Consultants & Associates — underpaid an executive assistant by roughly $21,000 from February 2017 to March 2018.

All told, Heuermann owed $85,000 when civil penalties, damages and interest were added, according to court documents. He paid up roughly $16,000 under a 2021 settlement agreement, but stopped once he was arrested this year, documents show.

The suit aims to collect the remaining nearly $69,000 he owes, according to records.