The suspect’s neighbors were long wary of the mysterious architect. One, Mike Schmidt, said he would often shares beers with another neighbor and point at Heuermann’s home and remark: ‘He probably has bodies in there,’ according to the Times.
Schmidt said that last Halloween, he finally resolved to break years of tradition by taking his children to trick-or-treat at Heuermann’s home, where he lived with his wife, daughter and stepson. The home that the suspect lived in as a child.
He said that hulking architect opened the door to the kids and gave them each a plastic pumpkin packed with candy. Schmidt added that when he told his wife where the sweets came from, she made him throw them out.
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