Gilgo Beach suspect’s neighbor reveals ‘tense’ conversation they had after he caught him ogling his wife while she sunbathed

• Etienne Devilliers, 68, has lived next door to Heuermann since the 1990s 
• He says he had to ‘threaten’ him to get him to stop ogling his wife  

Gilgo Beach murder suspect Rex Heuermann creeped out his neighbor’s wife by ogling her over the fence while she sunbathed, her husband said today. 

Etienne Devilliers, 68, has lived directly next door to Heuermann and his family since the 1990s. 

A former NYFD fire fighter, he told Fox News in an interview today how Heuermann used to make his wife feel uncomfortable during the summer months by staring at her and trying to start conversations while she sunbathed.

Devilliers confronted him and the pair had an ‘unpleasant’ exchange, he said. 

‘My wife would sunbathe in the backyard occasionally, but he would stand over the fence because he was a tall guy. 

Etienne Devilliers, 68, has lived directly next door to Heuermann and his family since the 1990s. He recalled Heuermann peering over the fence to stare at his wife while she sunbathed when he was at work as a firefighter 

‘He would constantly say he was six-four, 250 pounds, and he would try to start conversations with her.

‘My wife finally told me a few times that she was getting creeped out a bit by him. I had a conversation with him. It wasn’t pleasant. It wasn’t a pleasant conversation. We spoke pretty harshly, but he didn’t get aggressive or anything. After that, he never did it again,’ he said. 

Heuermann did not become confrontational, he said, and left his wife alone. 

‘When I had that altercation with him, I basically threatened him to stop leering at my wife. He backed off. The violence thing I didn’t see coming because he didn’t come off violent. I mean, he was strange to look at, enormous. 

‘But he never became more violent to me or to anybody that I could tell,’ he said.

He described Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect, as ‘odd’ with no friends. 

‘He was strange and odd. People would stay away from his house. I mean, they would literally cross the street because the house was such a mess,’ he said. 

Heuermann’s house is shown, left, while Devilliers’ home is on the right 

The white fence that divides the two homes can be seen here. Crime lab teams continue to dig up Heuermann’s yard

There is an ongoing police presence i the neighborhood 

Devilliers said the entire neighborhood is now in ‘shock’ about the allegations. 

He was stunned to learn how many weapons he kept – over 200 – at his home. 

‘I saw a group of people carrying in a box that must have weighed a ton. And he told me it was a metal door for the basement. 

‘But apparently now the detective that came to my house… he said that it was a safe, into the wall of the basement. So he told me the door was to lock up his guns, but I had no idea.’ 

He added that he feels sorry for Heuermann’s special needs stepson who recently got his first dog. 

‘He is a sweet kid,’ he said, noting that Heuermann and his ‘odd ball’ wife use him to do the yard work. 

Victoria, his adult daughter, is also a ‘sweet and quiet’ kid, Devilliers said.  

So far, Heuermann has been charged with murdering Megan Waterman, Amber Costello and Melissa Barthelemy. Police however say they are ‘confident’ they will soon charge him with the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barners 

In addition to his cluttered home, Heuermann kept two storage units in Amityville. They were searched yesterday and today 

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