North Westchester resident Dominique Michelle Vidal said in a statement Tik Tok Just a few months earlier, she had met the burly man who police named as the prime suspect in three Long Island murders and was a suspect in a fourth.
Vidal said she wasn’t surprised after the weird and uncomfortable meeting with Hoyleman.
Shelman is accused of killing Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello and burying their bodies in the grass on Gilgo Beach in Suffolk County. He is also a suspect in the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes.
The women, who went missing between July 2007 and September 2010, were found in December 2010 during police K9 training.
In a TikTok video posted after Heuermann’s arrest, fellow artist Vidal described him as “sweaty, weird, and not very talkative.”
She wasn’t surprised when the man she said had been talking about himself was arrested for murder.
After one meeting, Vidal ran into Hoyleman at a bar in New York City, where she said he talked about himself as if he had written a script and stuck to it.
He also asked her if she listened to podcasts and wondered if she was interested in true crime. When Vidal replied that she had been but found it too distressing, he brought up the Gilgo Beach murders and asked her if she had heard of it.
When she said yes, Schulman went on to say that it happened in his neighborhood, described the discovery of the body and spoke about the crime.
She later left the group, in part because of Schulman, who sent her voicemails and tried to keep in touch. She posted one of the voicemails on TikTok and offered to post his photo in a group setting.
“I can’t stop thinking about bar meetings,” she said on TikTok. “I’m devastated. He’s a very strange person, an unpopular person, a weirdo.”
Schulman has pleaded not guilty to the crimes, but Suffolk County Police and the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office are confident they have caught their own and are continuing to investigate the other bodies found at the site (10 in total, plus an infant). Same area as Gilgo Beach.
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