Post by Admin on Sept 25, 2023 23:41:13 GMT
When Your Boss Turns Out to Be a Serial Killer
Examining serial killers past and present and how marginalized groups tend to be their most likely victims.
www.truthdig.com/articles/when-your-boss-turns-out-to-be-a-serial-killer/
When Mary Shell, a 40-year-old TV show producer, saw the headlines about her old boss, Rex Heuermann, she practically thought she was hallucinating. Heuermann was the head of a prominent, Manhattan-based architecture firm where Shell had spent a few years ferrying paperwork in her 20s and he had just been arrested in connection to corpses found in Gilgo Beach, Long Island.
“It was so surreal that it felt unreal,” she tells Truthdig, and she thought that “Maybe it’s someone with the same name as him?”
But the mugshot confirmed that her former boss was the prime suspect in a series of murders that had flummoxed law enforcement for decades.
Between 1996 and 2011, 11 bodies were found buried in Gilgo Beach. In that time, investigators with the Suffolk County Police Department made little headway. The victims who were identified had worked as escorts, which some observers suggest didn’t inspire urgency within the department. Robert Kolker, who wrote the 2013 book “Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery,” recently wrote: “If the victims had been successful and well-educated, like the victims of David Berkowitz, the serial killer known as Son of Sam, all of Long Island might need to be in a panic,” he writes. “But everyone could relax. Sex workers didn’t seem to deserve the same consideration.” TMZ reports that the police chief, James Burke, himself frequented escorts. Burke was arrested this week for attempting to solicit a sex act.
rest in link.
Examining serial killers past and present and how marginalized groups tend to be their most likely victims.
www.truthdig.com/articles/when-your-boss-turns-out-to-be-a-serial-killer/
When Mary Shell, a 40-year-old TV show producer, saw the headlines about her old boss, Rex Heuermann, she practically thought she was hallucinating. Heuermann was the head of a prominent, Manhattan-based architecture firm where Shell had spent a few years ferrying paperwork in her 20s and he had just been arrested in connection to corpses found in Gilgo Beach, Long Island.
“It was so surreal that it felt unreal,” she tells Truthdig, and she thought that “Maybe it’s someone with the same name as him?”
But the mugshot confirmed that her former boss was the prime suspect in a series of murders that had flummoxed law enforcement for decades.
Between 1996 and 2011, 11 bodies were found buried in Gilgo Beach. In that time, investigators with the Suffolk County Police Department made little headway. The victims who were identified had worked as escorts, which some observers suggest didn’t inspire urgency within the department. Robert Kolker, who wrote the 2013 book “Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery,” recently wrote: “If the victims had been successful and well-educated, like the victims of David Berkowitz, the serial killer known as Son of Sam, all of Long Island might need to be in a panic,” he writes. “But everyone could relax. Sex workers didn’t seem to deserve the same consideration.” TMZ reports that the police chief, James Burke, himself frequented escorts. Burke was arrested this week for attempting to solicit a sex act.
rest in link.