A profession legal whose scrap with a disgraced Lengthy Island police chief ended the cop’s profession tried to get a jailhouse sit-down with Gilgo Seashore killer Rex Heuermann — a determined bid to attempt to implicate the ex-cop within the grisly murders, The Put up has realized.
Ex-junkie Christopher Loeb was viciously crushed by former Suffolk County Police Chief Jimmy Burke in 2012 after stealing the cop’s dildo and porn stash, sending the controversial cop to jail — and he mentioned he stays satisfied the previous chief was by some means concerned with Heuermann’s monstrous crimes.
“I’ve motive to imagine it is a coverup to guard others,” Loeb mentioned in a press release Sunday. “After I broke in Burke’s truck, the murders miraculously stopped. I didn’t break into Rex’s truck. I broke into Burke’s truck and he’s positively concerned.”
Burke has by no means been in any approach implicated or recognized as a suspect within the Gilgo Seashore murders.
However Loeb, who’s at present behind bars and has three open legal instances on assault, strangulation and grand larceny fees, gained’t let it go, insisting that “Burke is concerned.”
Suffolk County Sheriff Erroll Toulon confirmed final week that Loeb did attempt to speak to Heuermann in jail.
“Christopher Loeb tried to come back and go to or talk with [Heuermann],” Toulon mentioned in an unique interview final week. “He’s the one with Jimmy Burke, the previous chief of division, who former Chief Burke assaulted him and led to his downfall.
“He tried to speak with him,” the veteran sheriff mentioned. ” Sure. He needed to try to go to him. He needed to come back and go to Rex Heuermann.”
Toulon, who mentioned Heuermann declined the request, didn’t say why Loeb might have needed to talk with the hulking serial killer, who admitted final week that he strangled and butchered eight intercourse staff between 1993 and 2010 earlier than dumping the our bodies.
Burke, a loose-cannon cop who botched the Gilgo Seashore investigation for years, was as soon as rumored as a possible suspect however was by no means formally named and was ultimately cleared of any involvement.
His profession got here to an abrupt finish after Loeb was arrested on Dec. 14, 2012, at his mom’s home in Smithtown, the place cops allegedly discovered a stash of stolen property from a number of autos, together with Burke’s.
In keeping with court docket information,they “included his gun belt, magazines of ammunition, a field of cigars, a humidor and a canvas bag that contained different objects, intercourse toys and grownup pornography.”
Burke flew right into a rage and pounded Loeb whereas he was handcuffed, and later pressured cops beneath his command to lie concerning the incident — however the ruse didn’t cease him from getting busted.
Burke was by no means tied to the murders, however he was hit with federal civil rights fees in addition to state fees and served greater than two years in jail on assault and obstruction of justice convictions.
He was launched in 2019 however busted once more in 2023 for soliciting intercourse.
In the meantime, Heuermann is scheduled to be sentenced to 3 life phrases in jail with out probability of parole on June 17 following his surprising responsible pleas final week.
The Massapequa Park killer has had different curious encounters whereas awaiting sentencing, together with fan letters from different well-known psychopaths, with “Comfortable Face Killer” Keith Jesperson reportedly amongst them.
Extra reporting by Brandon Cruz
