Former President Trump engaged Gilgo Beach serial murderer suspect Rex Heuermann for a $200,000 architect position at one of his most prized Wall Street properties.
A 2018 filing with the New York City Department of Buildings reveals that the Trump Organization employed the alleged serial murderer in 2018.
Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Had Prominent Clients
RH Consultants & Associates was hired for a project at the 72-story Trump Building on Wall Street, in the financial district of Manhattan. The filing indicates that the architect's firm was engaged for a "renovation of office space on the 17th floor to include minor partition and plumbing modifications."
The estimated total cost of the project was slightly more than $205,000. The documentation lists Steve Lafiosca as the Vice President of Property Management for The Trump Organization under the owner's information.
Once the highest building in the globe, the 1930 structure was acquired by the former president for less than $8 million in 1995. Other clients of Rex Heuermann's Manhattan enterprise, which he founded in 1994, include Target, Footlocker, Nike, and Cipriani, among others.
Architecture, interior design, and building department expediting are provided as services.
Thirteen years after the discovery of four bodies draped in camouflaged burlap sacks on Gilgo beach, Heuermann was dramatically apprehended in Midtown Manhattan outside his Fifth Avenue office on Thursday.
Eleven bodies, including that of an infant, have been discovered along the same stretch.
He is charged with murdering Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello, three of the Gilgo Beach victims. He entered a not-guilty plea.
He is also considered the main suspect in the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, the fourth victim. Authorities have not ruled out charging him with additional homicides due to the fact that her body was bound and concealed in dense underbrush along a remote coastal highway, and they have not ruled out charging him with additional murders.
Since his detention a week ago, investigators have been searching his Long Island home for evidence and removing it. In a workshop, this most recently consisted of a shredded, soiled shirt and a set of handcuff keys.
Sixth day of forensic investigators scouring the 'dungeon-like' Massapequa Park residence of the 59-year-old architect. One investigator was observed by DailyMail.com carrying a list of some of the evidence discovered inside.
The list included a rope kept in a vault, a shredded shirt with a stain kept in a bag, and handcuff keys kept on a ledge beneath a workbench.
It is unknown when these specific items were removed from the residence or if they are connected to the investigation, but officers have been searching the property for 'trophies' that may be associated with the victims. Sunday, the police removed more than 200 weapons from the residence.
Lawyer Says Rex Heuermann was 'Traumatized'
According to his counsel, Heuermann was "traumatized" after his arrest for the heinous Gilgo Beach murders. Michael Brown, a Suffolk County criminal defense attorney, told ABC News on Tuesday that he observed the 59-year-old father of two's distress when he met him Friday to enter not-guilty pleas at his arraignment.
"He was articulate, intelligent, and soft-spoken," Brown said of the 59-year-old architect who allegedly stored up to 300 firearms in his Massapequa Park home, where he also allegedly read numerous articles about the killing rampage and searched for violent child pornographic videos.
The attorney met his client again in the county jail, where the suspect was kept under suicide watch, according to the attorney.
Brown reiterated his earlier claim that "there is nothing" to indicate that the Manhattan architect is "involved in these incidents," while his attorney argued that he had "already been convicted in the media and in the media's public opinion."
He dismissed as "circumstantial evidence" the prosecution's case, which included alleged DNA matches, disquieting conversations, and online inquiries using burner phones.
Brown now fears that the headlines, many of which describe ever-expanding searches for other potential crimes and horrifying encounters with the suspect, will prevent the accused serial killer from receiving a fair trial.
The attorney previously characterized the accused serial killer as a "hardworking" professional who "is a loving spouse of over 25 years to his wife and an involved and devoted father to his daughter and stepson."
Brown told ABC he had not yet spoken with Heuermann's family members, who Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison said are "struck," "embarrassed," and "repulsed" by the "animal" Heuermann is accused of being in his covert "double life."
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