“I’m friendly with everybody around here but she didn’t talk to anyone,” Ms. Musto said.
There was speculation but little insight into Mr. Heuermann’s relationship with his wife and his family life. Their closest neighbors said they did not know them well and not one neighbor recalled anyone outside the family ever being allowed — or wanting to go — inside the house.
The couple’s son’s name remained unclear. Their daughter, Victoria, 26, worked with Mr. Heuermann at his Manhattan firm.
Ms. Musto’s daughter, Taylor, 27, said she grew up and played with Victoria as a child.
“She was always quiet. She would ask me to come over,” Taylor Musto said. This did not sit well with Taylor’s mother.
“I didn’t want her in that house,” Frankie Musto said.
“It could be that he just had two personalities,” said her husband, Bob Musto, a 40-year resident.
According to the authorities, Mr. Heuermann took pains to hide his activity from his wife.
When one victim, Megan Waterman, was reported missing in June 2010, Ms. Ellerup was in Maryland, the authorities said. She was in New Jersey in September 2010 when Amber Lynn Costello vanished, and in Iceland in July 2009 when Melissa Barthelemy was last seen.
Some serial killers are able to keep their secret “the same way some men are able to have a second family on the side and no one knows,” said James Alan Fox, a professor at Northeastern University who has been studying serial killers for more than 40 years. “It’s something they do in their own free time, and how would the family know?”
Hurubie Meko and Erin Nolan contributed reporting.
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