Rex Heuermann ‘traumatized’ by arrest, lawyer says

Accused Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann was “traumatized” after his bust for the depraved Gilgo Beach murders, according to his attorney.

Suffolk County criminal defense attorney Michael Brown told ABC News Tuesday that he noticed the 59-year-old father of two’s distress when he met him to enter not-guilty pleas at his arraignment Friday.

Other than that, “nothing struck me as unusual about him,” the attorney said of the 6-foot-4 suspect who has been likened to an “ogre.”

“He was articulate, he was intelligent, he was soft-spoken,” Brown said of the 59-year-old architect who had up to 300 guns stashed in his Massapequa Park home, where he allegedly exhaustively read articles about the killing spree and searched for brutal child pornography videos.

The attorney met his client again later in the county jail, he said of the suspect, who’s been kept under suicide watch.

Brown repeated his earlier claim that “there is nothing” to suggest the Manhattan architect “is involved in these incidents,” even as the lawyer contended he had “been convicted in the media already and the media public opinion.”

He dismissed the prosecution’s case — which includes alleged DNA matches and disturbing calls and online searches with burner phones — as mere “circumstantial evidence.”

“I haven’t heard anything about an eyewitness who saw anything,” he said, even though cops put the breakthrough down to a witness reporting someone matching Heuermann’s description driving a distinctive first-generation Chevy Avalanche like one he owned.

“I haven’t heard anything about a confession,” added the attorney.

Brown now fears the headlines, many detailing ever-widening searches for other possible crimes as well as terrifying run-ins with the suspect, will make it impossible for the accused killer to get a fair trial.

“When you have a high profile case like this, initially you have to be concerned about getting a jury that hasn’t been biased, that hasn’t convicted him, just based on what they’ve read in the newspapers and what they’ve heard on social media,” the attorney said.

“So that’s going to be a challenge.”

The attorney previously described the accused serial killer as a “hardworking” professional who “is a loving husband to his wife of over 25 years and an involved and dedicated father to his daughter and stepson.”

Brown told ABC that he hadn’t yet spoken to talk to Heuermann’s family members — who Suffolk County Commissioner Rodney Harrison has said are “shocked,” “embarrassed” and “disgusted” at the “animal” he’s accused of being in his secret “double life.”