Rex Heuermann Can't Connect Himself to Gilgo Beach Crimes
About this episode
The episode explores Rex Heuermann's claims of dissociation from his crimes and features insights from psychotherapist Shavaun Scott.
Rex Heuermann sits in his cell at Suffolk County Correctional Facility and looks at crime scene photos of the eight women he killed. He studies the dump sites. He looks at what was done to the bodies. And then he says something that should make every person following this case sit up straight — he says he can't connect the person who did those things to himself. He tries. He looks at the photos and tries to bridge the gap between the man who dismembered women in his basement and the man sitting in the cell. And he says he can't do it. The two worlds don't merge. That claim — coming from a man who timed his body dumps with a stopwatch, who built a four-day ritual around each killing, who got his disposal time down from two minutes to thirty-seven seconds — raises a question that sits at the center of this entire case. Is he telling the truth? Is Rex Heuermann genuinely unable to connect his two selves? Or is this one more performance from a man who John Douglas called a malignant narcissistic sadistic psychopath — a man whose narcissism is so total that even in confession, he's still curating how the world sees him? The documentary also revealed that Rex agreed to cooperate with…
People in this episode
Host: Hidden Killers Podcast
Guest: Shavaun Scott
Topics covered
- Rex Heuermann
- Gilgo Beach crimes
- psychology of killers
- dissociation
- true crime analysis
Keywords
- Rex Heuermann
- Gilgo Beach
- true crime
- psychopath
- dissociation
- FBI
- Shavaun Scott
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: FBI, Suffolk County Correctional Facility
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