NEW YORK (AP) — The person who not too long ago pleaded responsible to New York’s Gilgo Seaside serial murders informed his ex-wife whereas in jail that he killed most of his feminine victims within the basement of the household’s dilapidated dwelling, the newest episode of an NBC documentary sequence reveals.
His ex-wife, Asa Ellerup, stated in a teaser for the episode airing Thursday that Rex Heuermann additionally informed her that the eight girls he has admitted to killing had been his solely victims.
Ellerup says later within the teaser that he informed her that he killed seven of them within the basement of the household’s home in Massapequa Park on Lengthy Island whereas she was away.
“I stated to him, ‘So Mr. Heuermann, I perceive that you’re confessing to me on these murders. Are you able to please inform me what number of of those girls did you kill’?,” she stated within the 90-second clip. “He stated, ‘Eight’.”
Ellerup stated she deliberately didn’t use her former husband’s first title as a solution to “put a wall up” between the 2.
“When he began speaking, it began feeling like that’s the Rex I do know,” she stated. “However I didn’t need to see that one. I wished to see the one I wanted to see.”
The newest and final installment of “The Gilgo Seaside Killer: Home of Secrets and techniques” might be out there on NBC’s streaming service Peacock. One other documentary, “Killing Grounds: The Gilgo Seaside Murders,” additionally comes out Wednesday on Amazon’s streaming service, Prime Video.
Ellerup’s legal professional, Robert Macedonio, declined to debate what different new particulars are revealed within the new episode of the Peacock documentary, the primary three episodes of which aired final June.
“This has been a particularly emotional and painful course of for the household to endure and are available to phrases with the allegations that Rex Heuermann was the Gilgo Seaside serial killer,” he stated in an e mail. “Ms. Ellerup would love the main focus to stay the place it belongs — on the victims and their households, who’ve suffered immeasurable and lasting losses.”
Vess Mitev, a lawyer for the couple’s two grown youngsters, Victoria and Chris, stated the 2 “echo the feelings of their mom, and need solely to maneuver ahead as greatest they’ll, given this remarkably darkish chapter of their lives.”
Heuermann’s attorneys didn’t reply to an e mail looking for remark.
Earlier episodes of the documentary confirmed the household struggling to reconcile their reminiscences of the architect, who had an workplace in Manhattan, with the portrait of the killer described by authorities.
Ellerup, who divorced Heuermann after his arrest in 2023, steadfastly defended her ex-husband’s innocence throughout these earlier episodes. However her daughter finally conceded her father “almost definitely” dedicated the brutal killings that bedeviled investigators and drew intense curiosity from true-crime watchers for years.
The saga got here to an in depth earlier this month when Heuermann, 62, of Massapequa Park, admitted in Riverhead court docket to murdering seven girls and in addition killing an eighth he had not but been charged with over a 17-year span.
Heuermann stated in court docket he strangled the ladies, lots of them intercourse staff, and dismembered a few of their our bodies earlier than dumping them on a desolate parkway not removed from Lengthy Island’s Gilgo Seaside, some 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Manhattan.
He’ll be sentenced in June to life in jail with out the opportunity of parole.
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