Gilgo Beach serial 殺し屋 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う Rex Heuermann 'hid in plain sight' - but was he に引き続いて in the footsteps of 悪名高い monsters like Ted Bundy, Dennis Rader and John Wayne Gacy who all lived 二塁打 lives?

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Two weeks ago, Manhattan architect Rex Heuermann 逮捕（する）d headlines after he was 逮捕（する）d under 疑惑 of 存在 the 悪名高い Gilgo Beach serial 殺し屋.?

But 支援する in his Massapequa Park home, his wife Asa Ellerup, 59, their daughter Victoria, 26, and stepson, Christopher Sheridan, 32, were left in shock. How could the man they knew be 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d with such heinous 罪，犯罪s?

Friends of Heuermann have （人命などを）奪う，主張するd he showed 'no red 旗s', にもかかわらず the 59-year-old 直面するing 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s of 殺人ing three 売春婦s and 存在 the prime 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う in a fourth whose remains were 設立する 近づく the others on Gilgo Beach in Long Island.?

Each weekday, Heuermann would catch the Long Island Rail Road to Manhattan to 長，率いる to his office on Park Avenue South. And when he was not at work, he was often seen tinkering around his run-負かす／撃墜する 所有物／資産／財産 by neighbors.?

But, for two weeks each year, Heuermann had '十分な 統治する'?to do as he pleased when his wife and children traveled to her native アイスランド. に引き続いて his headline-grabbing 逮捕（する） on July 14, his family have said they are now left 'disgusted' and 'shocked'.?He uermann's family isn't alone.?

After １０年間s of 悪名高い 逮捕（する）s,?the everyday lives led by serial 殺し屋s have drawn morbid public fascination while leaving their 荒廃させるd 親族s reeling.?

Here, DailyMail.com takes a look at the nightmarish 二塁打 lives and mundane everyday 職業s that 許すd some of America's most conniving - and 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd - 殺し屋s to 避ける （犯罪，病気などの）発見 and hide in plain sight for years:

Rex Heuermann, 59, is an architect who caught the Long Island Rail Road each weekday from Massepequa Park to his office in Manhattan. For two weeks each year, his wife and children went to アイスランド in which time he had '十分な 統治する' to do as he pleased, f riends have said

Heuermann's wife, Asa Ellerup, 59, and stepson, Christopher Sheridan, 33, are pictured on their porch two weeks after his 逮捕（する）. Ellerup's lawyer said she was 'disgusted' and 'shocked' by the 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s against him

Asa Ellerup and her two children, Victoria, 26, and Christopher, 33, 削減（する） solemn 人物／姿／数字s as they arrived 支援する at their Massepequa Park home in Long Island this week

Ted Bundy - The elusive ripper with a young family

As one of the most 悪名高い serial 殺し屋s in American history, Ted Bundy's 罪，犯罪s have horrified for 世代s.?He 自白するd to 殺人，大当り more than 30 women and girls through the 1970s, and 捜査官／調査官s believe he may have killed 上向きs of 70.??

But for much of the time he was carrying out his grisly 殺人s, he also had a fianc? and stepdaughter 支援する home.?

His partner, Elizabeth Kloepfer, was a self-述べるd lonely アル中患者 選び出す／独身 mother when she met Bundy in a Seattle 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 in 1969. She had recently moved from Ogden, Utah, and jumped at the chance to start a new life with him.?

She 即時に 攻撃する，衝突する it off with the charismatic and handsome 殺し屋, and after introducing him to her daughter Molly, the trio seemed to live for a while in unsuspecting 国内の bliss.?

'I 手渡すd Ted my life and said, "Here, take care of me"' she wrote in her 1981 調書をとる／予約する,?The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy. 'He did in a lot of ways, but I became more and more 扶養家族 upon him.'?

While 気が進まない to question his 活動／戦闘s and 完全に unaware that he was one of the most 残虐な 犯罪のs in the nation, Kloepfer 認める that she was emotionally manipulated by Bundy throughout their 関係.?

'When I felt his love, I was on 最高の，を越す of the world; when I felt nothing from Ted, I felt that I was nothing,' she wrote.?

Serial 殺し屋 Ted Bundy built a 評判 as a charming family man, while 内密に butchering dozens of women and girls. He is pictured with his fianc? Elizabeth Kloepfer and her daughter Molly, who he helped raise

Bundy was in a six-year 関係 with 選び出す／独身 mother Kloepfer, before his erratic and 疑わしい 行為 led to their undoing?

Bundy's fianc? said にもかかわらず his manipulative nature, the 殺し屋 seemed to care for her and her daughter Molly (pictured) 'in a lot of ways'

He had a knack for talking his way out of 疑わしい 行為, such as 運動ing for hundreds of miles to '（疑いを）晴らす his 長，率いる' or 所有するing 武器s like knives and ice 選ぶs in his car and desk.?

But by 1974, five years after the couple m et, the noose began 強化するing around Bundy's secret life. News 報告（する）／憶測s 現れるd about a 一連の 強姦s and 殺人s across Washington 明言する／公表する, and 捜査官／調査官s were 公然と looking for a 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う 指名するd 'Ted' who drove a matching Volkswagen to his.?

Bundy pictured in 保護／拘留 after escaping from 刑務所，拘置所 in Colorado in 1977

While his home life helped keep up the facade, Bundy was known to use several other 策略 to remain above 疑惑 as 犠牲者s piled up across several 明言する／公表するs in the 中央の-1970s.

Many who knew him over the years said he was able to change his personality on a 薄暗い, going from 冷淡な and callous to charming and witty if needed.??

Bundy also had a 評判 の中で 法律 施行 for his ability to change his 外見 easily, and さまざまな mugshots of the serial 殺し屋 through his many 逮捕（する）s show him with a variety of purposefully altered looks.?

With his 的 犠牲者s 存在 攻撃を受けやすい young women, Bundy would use his g ood looks and charm to 誘惑する them to secluded?areas, often 納得させるing them by pretending to be 負傷させるd or in need of help.??

Unlike some 殺し屋s who hid behind mundane 職業s, Bundy relied on the superficial, although he did 顕著に work for a short time for a 自殺 hotline.

However, Bundy's 二塁打 life 最終的に turned into his undoing. In 1975, Kloepfer went to the police with her growing 疑惑s about her fianc?, after realizing his erratic 行為 seemed to link up with many horrific 未解決の 殺人s in the news.?

Bundy was able to carve out a seemingly idyllic family life for over half a １０年間 while still carrying out his 殺人s?

Bundy later married Carol Ann Boone in 1982 from behind 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業s, and the couple 株d daughter Rose until his 死刑執行 in 1989

Bundy and his second wife Carol Ann Boone pictured in 刑務所，拘置所 in Florida with their daughter Rose

Bundy was known as a charming and charismatic individual who had the ability to 劇的な change his look, which also helped him 避ける 逮捕（する） for many years

While it helped him for years, the （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） she 供給するd about his 行為, personality and movements 最終的に helped lead 法律 施行 to his 逮捕（する）.?

Behind 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業s, Bundy echoed his former life as he controversially 結婚する ded Carol Ann Boone in 1982. The two 株d a daughter, Rose, before she 離婚d him in 1986, three years before he was 遂行する／発効させるd in Florida.?

Dennis Rader - The sadistic stamp collecting dad

Dennis Rader stands apart の中で serial 殺し屋s for the length of time he was able to remain undetected, 持続するing a?family man facade for １０年間s before the 隠す finally slipped.?

From 1974 to 1991, Rader 殺人d at least 10 people, 含むing two children, in Wichita, Kansas. He gave himself the 愛称 'BTK', stood for '貯蔵所d, 拷問, kill', and terrorized the area for years with taunting letters sent to police and 地元の マスコミ.

And while Heuermann used a 対応して cruel 手段 of mocking his 犠牲者s' families instead of 当局, the similarities between the two sadists 延長する far その上の.?

Rader himself even drew comparisons earlier this month, 令状ing in a letter from behind 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業s that their 平行の lives - and 罪，犯罪s - 事実上 make them 'clones.'

'I was 逮捕（する）d age 59. Married, two kids,' Rader wrote in the letter, to Fox News. 'Husband, dad longtime a serial 殺し屋, stalker, used electronic 装置s, lives in a 近隣 undetected.'?

Dennis Rader?殺人d at least 10 people, 含むing two children, in Wichita, Kansas from 1974 to 1991

The 'BTK' 殺し屋's daughter Kerri Rawson has been open with her struggles to comprehend his 殺人s, but said she has forgiven him while cutting all 接触する

Rawson (pictured) has written two 調書をとる／予約するs about coming to 条件 with her father's 罪，犯罪s

Rader 支えるd his everyday 前線 by 持つ／拘留するing a humdrum 職業 for ADT 安全 任命する／導入するing home 安全 alarms. The 役割 gave him eerie 接近 to people's homes and an intricate understanding of personal 安全, which he would use in his 罪，犯罪s such as cutting the phone lines before creeping inside.?

He worked at the company from 1974 to 1988 as panic swept the Wichita, Kansas area, and he often 任命する／導入するd alarms for homeowners terrified of the 悪名高い BTK 殺し屋.?

Rader stands apart の中で 悪名高い serial 殺し屋s for the length of time he was able to remain undetected. He baffled 捜査官／調査官s for years when he stopped 令状ing the taunting letters, and was only caught when he 再開するd in 2005.

For １０年間s before his 逮捕（する）, the former 空気／公表する 軍隊 staff sergeant l ived a seemingly uneventful lifestyle with his wife Paula Dietz and their two children in their Wichita home.?

He had met his wife in church, and he went on to tick all the boxes as an 普通の／平均（する） American dad by becoming a stamp collector, church board 大統領，／社長 and Boy Scout 軍隊／機動隊 leader.??

Discovering their beloved husband and father was the man who had been terrorizing the 明言する／公表する 荒廃させるd the family, and, like Kloepfer, his daughter Kerri 解放（する）d 調書をとる／予約するs about how she （機の）カム to 条件 with reality.?

Rader was married to his wife Paula Dietz, pictured on their wedding day in 1971, for 34 years before she discovered he was a 残虐な serial 殺し屋

Rader began 殺人，大当り four years before the birth of his daughter Kerri (left), and continued until she was 12-years-old?

While terrorizing Wichita, Kansas in the 1970s, Rader held a variety of milquetoast 役割s that built hid image as a 基準 family man, 含むing as a Boy Scout 軍隊／機動隊 leader, church 大統領，／社長, and stamp collector

Rader's daughter said he was often 'even-keeled' but had a temper that would 爆発する out of the blue. He is pictured August 2005 at h is 宣告，判決ing

Her father's 殺人s began four years before she was born, and continued in nightmarish secrecy through her childhood until she was 12.?

'Most of the time my father was even-keeled and 警告する,' Kerri told ABC News?in 2019.?

However, she?公式文書，認めるd that her father had a temper that could 爆発する out of the blue. 'The 重要な to 生き残るing life with dad? Watch the マリファナ closely,' she wrote in her 調書をとる／予約する, A Serial 殺し屋's Daughter: My Story of 約束, Love, and 打ち勝つing. 'Turn 負かす／撃墜する the heat, and know when to get out of its way before it blows.'?

His 殺人s stopped in 1991, but he remained on the run until he seemingly got bored of his mundane life, and some have posited that he grew 失望させるd that he never received 'credit' for the 悪名高い slayings.?

In 2005, he decided to?start 令状ing mocking letters 脅すing to 再開する 殺人，大当り, which was 報道によれば spurred when he saw a news 報告（する）／憶測 about the 30th 周年記念日 of his first 殺人s.?

He would often lead police and 新聞記者／雑誌記者s on scavenger 追跡（する）s with 手がかり（を与える）s for more （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状）, but this led to his undoing as 警官，（賞などを）獲得するs were finally able to snare him by tracing him from the 再開するd letters.?

John Wayne Gacy - The 殺し屋 clown with a knack for politics?

Unlike some 残虐な 殺し屋s who hide behind their unsuspecting 親族s, 悪名高い '殺し屋 clown' John Wayne Gacy 好意d his career as a pretense for innocence.?

While he is best known for his terrifying 味方する gig as a children's birthday clown, Gacy was also a successful construction 請負業者 and politico in the Chicago Democratic Party.?

The image of John Wayne Gacy as a children's birthday clown has terrified for １０年間s, but he also held 役割s in the Chicago Democratic Party and was a successful construction 請負業者?

Gacy pictured with First Lady Rosalynn Carter on May 6, 1978, in an image which she 本人自身で 調印するd: 'To John Gacy. Best Wishes.' This image was taken six years after his first 殺人 and seven months before his final 逮捕（する）

The Chicago 請負業者's loud personality made him popular in his community and he was known to often host parties

Gacy killed at least 33 men and boys between 1972 and 1978, many of whom were young 労働者s looking for a 職業 at his construction 会社／堅い PDM 請負業者s.?

Gacy pictured in his final 逮捕（する） mugshot on December 21, 1978, after 存在 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d with 殺人

にもかかわらず some men who interacted with Gacy in 私的な 述べるing him as creepy and pushy, Gacy built a glowing 評判 in the community of Norwood Park 郡区, Illinois.?

He was a 尊敬（する）・点d building 請負業者 teeming with （弁護士の）依頼人s in the area, and he 雇うd 非常に／多数の high schoolers looking for their first 職業.?

However, his 労働者s were also his 的 犠牲者 pool, and he would 誘惑する them to his home under the guise of their 役割.?

One 手段 Gacy was known to use was to pretend to show the boys a 魔法 trick 伴う／関わるing a pair of 手錠s, before slapping them on and trapping them in his home.?

Dozens of 団体／死体s were 設立する in the crawlspace under his home after his 逮捕（する）, but Gacy was able to remain above 疑惑 thanks to his 評判. He was so 確信して in his ability to remain undetected, that he even held parties at his home and backyard while the remains rotted below.?

Gacy built a 評判 as an upstanding and very 伴う／関わるd member of the community, which 許すd him to remain above 疑惑 for years

He was known to host extravagant 主題d parties in his home, which was filled with the 団体／死体s of his 犠牲者s?

に引き続いて his 逮捕（する）, many of those who knew Gacy 設立する it hard to believe the fun-loving host and political 支持する was o ne of the nation's worst serial 殺し屋s. He is pictured in an undated photograph from one of his many 主題d parties

Gacy was so 確信して in his ability to remain undetected that he held 非常に／多数の parties in his home, which was later discovered to held the remains of dozens of young boys and men

To 高める his facade as an upstanding member of the community, Gacy also 追求するd politics and became a 信頼できる 民主党員.?

He became a Democratic 管区 captain in his Chicago 郊外 for much of the 1970s, and the metro's importance to the 国家の party led Gacy to 会合，会う First Lady Rosalynn Carter in this 役割 in 1978 - just seven months before his final 逮捕（する）.?

The two took a now-famous photograph of their 会合, which Carter 調印するd: 'To John Gacy. Best Wishes. Rosalynn Carter.'?

His 主題d parties in his backyard, such as Hawaiian and 著作権侵害者-主題d bashes, were hotly 心配するd in the area, and に引き続いて his 逮捕（する） many couldn't believe the fun-loving host they knew was a 残虐な 殺害者 of young boys and men.?

Richard Cottingham - The IT tech 殺し屋

While one of the lesser-known serial 殺し屋s in America, Richard Cottingham remains a prime example of how a sadistic maniac can 持つ／拘留する 負かす／撃墜する a humdrum 職業.?

He became known as the 'Torso 殺し屋' or the 'Times Square 殺し屋' after leaving 非常に／多数の hotel rooms in the Big Apple hotspot in grisly 条件. He was 罪人／有罪を宣告するd of 18 殺人s, and （人命などを）奪う，主張するs to have killed over 100 women between 1967 and 1980.

Richard Cottingham left a 追跡する of horror in hotel rooms filled with mutilated 団体／死体s in a 13-year spree, while also working as an IT 専門家技術者

Cottingham remains behind 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業s in New Jersey, where he has 自白するd to a number of 冷淡な 事例／患者s in 最近の years

Cottingham has 認める his fascination with the macabre started at the age of 10, and he （人命などを）奪う，主張するs to have committed his first 殺人s while still a 十代の少年少女.

After 卒業生（する）ing as an unremarkable student, the 殺し屋 entered the 全労働人口 in a Manhattan mailroom at 主要都市の Life, where his father was a 副／悪徳行為-大統領，／社長, in 1964.

In 1966, the year before his first 確認するd 殺人, Cottingham landed the everyday 職業 that would lead many to 解任する him.?

He became a computer 操作者 for Blue Cross Shiel d 協会, a 職業 he held as he butchered countless women and girls in New York and New Jersey until he was 逮捕（する）d in 1980.?

顕著に, the serial 殺し屋 株d his office for a time with 悪名高い New York 殺し屋 Rodney Alcala, who has been linked to eight 殺人s and 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd of up to 130. However, there isn't any 証拠 to 示唆する the two 殺し屋s were familiar.

The 殺し屋 （人命などを）奪う，主張するs to have committed his first 殺人s as an adolescent. He worked in the mailroom for 主要都市の Life after 卒業生（する）ing in 1964, before working in IT for 13 years until his 逮捕（する）

Cottingham pictured on the first day of his first 殺人 裁判，公判 in Hackensack, New Jersey on September 28, 1982

One of his 非，不，無-murderous former co-労働者s 明らかにする／漏らすd that Cottingham would even discuss his grisly 殺人，大当りs in the office as they made headlines in New York.?

解任するing the 殺し屋's conversations on Netflix docuseries '罪，犯罪 Scene: The Times Square 殺し屋', the 同僚 said Cottingham 発言／述べるd at one of the 罪，犯罪s in the news and exclaimed: 'What 肉親，親類d of sick son of a b**** could do this?'

While he didn't 事業／計画（する） the family man image that 殺し屋s such as BTK tried hard to do, Cottingham was married in 1970, and he had three children.?

The 殺し屋 明らかに didn't create a happy 世帯, as his wife would とじ込み／提出する for 離婚 after eight years 特記する／引用するing 'mental cruelty' and 'abandonment'.?

As his 殺人，大当りs 増大するd, Cottingham would go on to leave women headless and armless in hotel rooms, which he would often then 始める，決める on 解雇する／砲火／射撃. Many of his 犠牲者s have remained 身元不明の 'Jane Doe' because of the 欠如（する） of 証拠 he would leave.?