Crime & Justice

How Happy Face Killer’s Kid Is Helping Gilgo Suspect’s Wife

‘WAKING NIGHTMARE’

The daughter of the “Happy Face Killer” has set up an online fundraising campaign for the wife of serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann.

Pilar Melendez
Pilar Melendez 

Senior National Reporter

Crime scene tape hangs near the residence of architect Rex Heuermann, who was arrested in connection with serial killings more than a decade ago in Gilgo beach, in Massapequa Park, New York, July 19, 2023.
Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
Pilar Melendez

Pilar Melendez

Senior National Reporter

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