New article in The NY Times — I gifted the article so it shouldn’t be behind a paywall
Apparently the family paid for groceries with food stamps, which is interesting considering RH had his own pretty successful architecture firm.
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Cashiers at the supermarket knew them as a quiet, cheerless family that shopped several times a week. Ms. Salmeri said she watched their children grow up over the past 25 years. One thing remained constant, she said:
Mr. Heuermann never accompanied them.
“He never came with them,” she said. “I’m not sure what that says about them.”
[RH’s wife] looked depressed, Ms. Salmeri said, and
the family often paid with food stamps, unusual at this store.
[…]
The Mustos, like other neighbors, called Mr. Heuermann’s family reclusive and enigmatic. On a tight-knit block, they did not socialize. Their unkempt house stood out almost as an extension of their nature.
To Ms. Musto, [RH’s wife] did not seem concerned with appearances either. “It could be middle of the afternoon and she looked like she just rolled out of bed,” she said.
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I’m friendly with everybody around here but she didn’t talk to anyone,” Ms. Musto said.