The younger brother of suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann killed a New York police captain in a drunken crash in which he was also “coked up,” The Post has learned.
Craig Heuermann, 57, was 22 in 1988 when he crashed through the central median of the Southern State Parkway close to the Massapequa Park home where his brother still lives, court records show.
He slammed head-on into a car driven by city Housing Authority police Capt. Winnion Buskey, 51, who was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a Newsday report at the time.
Heuermann was also hospitalized for a cut face, and then released into police custody, the report noted.
He later pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide and driving while intoxicated, according to a ruling in a lawsuit filed by Buskey’s family.
Craig Heuermann was going about 61 mph during the 9:25 a.m. smash — and was already in an “intoxicated and ‘coked-up’ condition at the time,” Judge Frank Rossetti noted of the police findings in the case.
The findings were used to dismiss a lawsuit that sought to blame city officials for the conditions of the road that locals dubbed “Blood Alley.”
The younger brother of suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann killed a New York police captain in a drunken crash in which he was also “coked up. Rex Heuermann Consultants & AssociatesThe “argument that the State should have reasonably foreseen such a driver is simply without merit,” Rossetti ruled in 1993.
“The cause of this accident was the negligent driving by an intoxicated driver,” he said of the younger Heuermann brother.
“The evidence showed Mr. Heuermann had a blood alcohol level of .20, twice the legal limit … and a blood cocaine level of .05 milligrams.
“Obviously, this was a man who should not have been driving,” the judge concluded.
The Heuermann brothers grew up in the ramshackle house on First Avenue where the accused suspect still lives. Edmund J CoppaBuskey had been en route to a bowling alley in Howard Beach, Queens, to join members of the housing unit’s bowling league at the time of the fatal crash.
Who is Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann?
A suspected serial killer has been arrested over the notorious Gilgo Beach murders in Long Island, The Post can confirm.
Rex Heuermann, 59, a married dad of two and architect at a New York City firm, has a home on 1st Avenue in Massapequa Park, sources told The Post.
His arrest is tied to the “Gilgo Four,” four women — Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, Amber Lynn Costello, 27, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25 — found wrapped in burlap within days of each other in 2010.
The body of Barthelemy was first found along Ocean Parkway on Dec. 11, 2010, sparking fears of a serial killer in the area.
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By spring 2011, the number of bodies had climbed to 10, including eight women as well as an unidentified man and toddler.
Heuermann’s arrest comes after Suffolk County’s new police commissioner created a special Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation Task Force in February 2022.
After pleading guilty, Heuermann, then 22, started a three-year prison sentence for criminally negligent homicide at a since-closed minimum-security prison in Gabriels in upstate New York.
He was paroled in August 1990, months after his initial review was denied, according to state corrections records obtained by The Post.
Rex Heurmann was arrested in the unsolved case tied to at least 10 sets of human remains that were discovered since 2010 in suburban Long Island. Getty ImagesHe was out in time to be listed in a wedding announcement for his brother, serving as best, at the ceremony for his first marriage in 1990.
The Heuermann brothers grew up in the ramshackle house on First Avenue where the accused Gilgo killings suspect still lives — just across the bay from where the strewn bodies of his alleged victims were found in 2010.
Rex Heuermann, 59, bought the house from their mother in 1994, the same year he started his architecture business on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan.
Craig Heuermann appears to have moved to the Carolinas at least 30 years ago. Attempts to contact him by phone were unsuccessful Friday.
