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A TAXI driver has revealed new details about what may have been an interaction between accused serial killer Rex Heuermann and his alleged victim Shannan Gilbert.
The sex worker’s body was recovered in 2011 on Gilgo Beach, a remote area that’s a short drive from Heuermann’s home in Massapequa Park, New York.
The unnamed cab driver claimed she came across the accused killer twice over the span of several weeks in 2009, according to an affidavit obtained by The U.S. Sun.
John Ray, an attorney for some of the Gilgo victims, alongside Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison, read aloud from the disturbing affidavits at a news conference Wednesday, Fox 5 New York reported.
One night, the driver’s dispatcher sent her to pick up a woman at the Sayville Motor Lodge, a now shuttered motel about 55 miles east of New York City.
The caller had specifically requested a female driver.
After arriving, the motorist waited several minutes. She flashed her lights at the motel room and honked her horn.
Eventually, a large man came out. The driver later identified him as Heuermann.
“He appeared to have a bit of a belly,” she said.
“He ran to the side street. He tried to block his face with his arms.”
Shortly thereafter, the woman who had called the cab emerged from the hotel room.
The driver believes this person was Gilbert.
She was able to identify the woman because of her signature “droopy” eye and details she provided about her family.
“She was crying and shaking,” the motorist said.
“She said that we had to get away from there.”
Gilbert then explained why she was so startled.
She alleged that Heuermann, who she met on Craigslist, called her out to Long Island and promised to take care of her, her family, and her boyfriend.
He handed her an envelope, but when Gilbert opened it she realized it was filled with cut up paper.
The two eventually got into a confrontation.
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“She saw a rage in his face,” the taxi driver said.
“She said that he shook her and that he was aggravated.
“He got aggressive so she ran into the bathroom and locked herself in there. She said he banged on the door.”
The motorist said she spoke to Gilbert in front of the motel and at the Ronkonkoma train station, where she was dropped off.
After the driver got called to pick up another passenger Gilbert waited for her train inside a different cab.
The driver claimed she encountered Heuermann again at a Ronkonkoma bar in October 2009.
“When I arrived at the bar, I observed an extraordinarily large man, wearing an army-like fatigue jacket, crouching down on a very small street next to the bar,” she recalled.
He claimed he was a police officer who worked in Brooklyn.
Although the driver didn’t remember their planned destination, she said she and the accused serial killer quickly got into a verbal altercation.
“We’re going for a long ride in the woods,” he told her.
Heuermann got upset when the woman said she would need to check in with her dispatcher about this first.
“He insisted he wanted to kill me,” she said.
“I heard him click a gun.”
The dispatcher heard what was going and told Heuermann he had put in a call to the police.
The driver eventually stopped the car and refused to move.
She told Heuermann she wouldn’t press charges is he got out of the car.
He eventually left the vehicle and asked a different motorist for a ride, but they refused.
The taxi driver said the accused killer walked to a nearby wooded area and that the dispatcher heard him fire two shots.
As the motorist left the area, she came across a police officer and told him what happened.