Daughter of missing mom thinks she was with Rex Heuermann

The family and friends of a missing South Carolina woman reportedly fear she was last with suspected Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann — a possibility being investigated by police.

Julia Ann Bean’s daughter immediately recognized Heuermann, 59, when shown a photo of the suspected killer who owns a home in the Palmetto State, family friend Hiedi Kovas told the US Sun.

“I have chills…I’ve seen him,” the daughter replied in text messages viewed by the outlet.

“That was the last man I saw her with personally,” she texted of the night her then-36-year-old mom went missing in June 2017.

“She knew him right away,” Kovas also told Pix 11 of Bean’s daughter, who was not identified by either outlet.

“She recognized him right away. She said that was the last person she ever saw with her mom.”

Kovas told Pix 11 that she reported what Bean’s daughter told her to officials late Sunday, where she also posted a video to social media.

“We’ll be looking into it on our end,” Scott Bonner of Sumter County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to the outlet.

The grieving daughter last met her mother at a nail salon where she arrived in a dark truck driven by a man she now believes to be Heuermann, but who introduced himself with a different name, the family friend said.

Heuermann was first linked to the Gilgo Beach killings by his distinctive dark Chevrolet Avalanche truck.

The daughter was reportedly not aware of Heuermann or the Long Island serial murders he is accused of until last week, when Kovas reached out after noticing that the Gilgo Beach victims resembled her missing friend. That’s when she noticed the likeness, Kovas said.

Kovas also shared several updates on Facebook, including an emotional statement from outside the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office.

“I’m here, Julie Bean,” Kovas said in the video. “I’m not going anywhere, and I’m not giving up.”

Heuermann reportedly planned to retire to the Palmetto State, where he owned a secluded property in Chester County, about a 90-minute drive from where Bean went missing.

He only brought it recently, but his brother has lived in the same area since at least 2000, according to property records.

Shortly after the architect’s July 13 arrest for the killing of at least three women between 2008 and 2010, South Carolina officials assisted in gathering evidence from the hideaway – including the Chevrolet Avalanche that initially linked Heuerman to the infamous murders.

Heuermann is currently in custody in Suffolk County. He pleaded not guilty to three counts each of first- and second-degree murder.