Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann confessed to his ex-wife Asa Ellerup weeks in the past that he killed seven girls of their residence | EUROtoday

Rex Heuermann, who not too long ago confessed to murdering eight girls, admitted to his ex-wife that he killed seven of his victims within the basement of their Long Island residence, in keeping with a brand new documentary.

In a teaser clip from the Peacock sequence The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of SecretsAsa Ellerup, who was married to Heuermann on the time of the murders, recounts a tense dialog along with her “nervous” ex-husband shortly earlier than his stunning responsible plea on April 8.

“I stated to him, ‘So Mr. Heuermann, I understand that you are confessing to me on those murders,” she says in the clip. “Can you tell me how many of these women did you kill?,’” Ellerup pushes.

“He said, ‘eight.’”

Ellerup’s lawyer, Bob Macedonio, questions her in regards to the quantity, asking “Who was the eighth? Because he’s charged with seven.”

“I didn’t ask,” she replied.

The clip doesn’t state when the dialog befell, however Ellerup, who filed for divorce from Huermann after his 2023 arrest, described him as being “very nervous – very, very nervous” as he ready to talk along with her. She says he insisted the eight girls he confessed to killing had been his solely victims.

Ellerup says that as a way to have the dialog she “put a wall up” — by utilizing formalities and calling him “Mr. Huermann,” as if he wasn’t her husband of 27 years.

“When he started talking, it started feeling like ‘that’s the Rex I know,’” Ellerup says. “But I didn’t want to see that one, I wanted to see the one I needed to see.”

Heuermann, 62, an architectural marketing consultant, was arrested in July 2023. Investigators linked him to the killings by means of DNA proof recovered from a discarded pizza crust outdoors his Manhattan workplace.

Earlier this month, he pleaded responsible to murdering seven girls – Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Amber Lynn Costello, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Jessica Taylor, Sandra Costilla and Valerie Mack – ending a case that had baffled investigators for greater than a decade.

Huermann additionally admitted in courtroom that he “caused the death” of Karen Vergata, a Manhattan mom of two, who disappeared in 1996. Her cranium was discovered on Ocean Parkway in 2011 however her identify was not launched till 2023. Heuermann was by no means charged in Vergata’s demise. He admitted to her homicide as a part of his plea deal. Heuermann admitted to strangling all the girls and dismembering a few of them.

According to Ellerup, Heuermann advised her that many of the killings occurred inside their Massapequa Park residence whereas she and their kids had been away.

“He said yes, they were killed in his room downstairs, all except one,” she says. “He said I wasn’t home during all of them.”

Most of the victims’ stays had been later found alongside the desolate space of Gilgo Beach.

The documentary’s closing episode, set to be launched Thursday, contains interviews with members of the family, a psychotherapist who handled Heuermann, and a former FBI profiler.

The venture has drawn criticism after stories that the household was paid greater than $1 million for his or her participation.

In an announcement, Ellerup’s lawyer stated: “This has been an extremely emotional and painful process for the family to endure and come to terms with the allegations that Rex Heuermann was the Gilgo Beach serial killer. Ms. Ellerup would like the focus to remain where it belongs – on the victims and their families, who have suffered immeasurable and lasting losses.”

Prosecutors stated the killings spanned from 1993 to 2010, with our bodies found alongside Ocean Parkway throughout a seek for a lacking lady, Shannan Gilbert.

Heuermann admitted to strangling the victims and disposing of their stays throughout Suffolk County. He is predicted to obtain a number of life sentences at his upcoming sentencing on June 17.