Accused Gilgo Seaside serial killer Rex Heuermann is due again in courtroom on Lengthy Island for a bail listening to Tuesday, the day after his estranged spouse shared the affect of his arrest and the continuing investigation is having at the circle of relatives.
Heuermann, 59, used to be arrested on July 13 and charged with homicide in reference to the deaths of 3 girls — Amber Lynn Costello, 27, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, and Megan Waterman, 22 — discovered on Gilgo Seaside in 2010. He’s additionally the top suspect within the killing of 25-year-old Maureen Brainard-Barnes.
On Monday, his estranged spouse Asa Ellerup, 59, mentioned throughout an unique interview with the New York Put up that her two grownup kids “cry themselves to sleep” after his arrest.Â
“My kids cry themselves to sleep,” she advised the Put up, referencing her 33-year-old special-needs son, Christopher Sheridan, and her 26-year-old daughter, Victoria Heuermann, who are living in combination of their Massapequa Park house. “I imply, they are now not kids. They are grown adults, however they are my kids, and my son has developmental disabilities, and he cried himself to sleep.”
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Rex Heuermann is charged with homicide within the deaths of 3 girls and is the top suspect within the killing of some other lady. (Suffolk County Sheriff’s Place of job by way of AP)
She additionally mentioned investigators wrecked her Lengthy Island house throughout their seek for proof in reference to the killings, leaving her with no mattress to sleep in. She additionally suffers from anxiousness, she defined.
Victoria Heuermann mentioned she feels “now not human” after the house used to be wrecked, the Put up reported.
Ellerup’s legal professional, Bob Macedonio, clarified: “She intended what they have achieved to them and the circle of relatives isn’t even human. They had been simply entire animals. They handled them like animals.”
Macedonio mentioned Ellerup, who filed for divorce after Rex Heuermann used to be taken into custody, used to be “blindsided” by means of her husband’s arrest.
“She used to be in entire surprise. Totally stuck by means of wonder,” Macedonio mentioned, consistent with the Put up.
Suffolk County Police and New York State Police tore up the Heuermann house looking for frame portions, even digging up the yard.
Ellerup described the home as unlivable however mentioned,”It is the handiest factor I were given.”
“I aroused from sleep in the midst of the night time, shivering,” she added.
“We did get some other chair out from the basement and upstairs so me and my son can sit down and communicate. He is so distraught and does not perceive, and as a mom, I don’t have any solutions for him,” she advised the Put up. “However I mentioned, ‘We’re in combination, That’s truly what issues at the moment. That you just and me are sitting right here in combination, and we can get thru this.'”
Asa Ellerup and Victoria Heuermann input their house in Massapequa Park, New York on Thursday, July 27, 2023. (MEGA for Fox Information Virtual )
Police ended their seek remaining week, permitting Ellerup and her kids to go back house for the primary time.
“[Cops] walked up, they went into the cars and out the door they went,” Ellerup mentioned. “Out. They left. And once I were given into the home I would possibly have had a couple of steps of strolling house between my entrance door and the kitchen.”
“I had 3 cats. Clutter containers had been a strew, thrown on best of the whole lot,” she endured. “My photos had been thrown in all places. My sofa used to be utterly shredded. I don’t even know if there is any portions to the sofa.”
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Police take away pieces, together with cardboard containers, from the house of Rex Heuermann in Massapequa Park, NY, Thursday, July 20, 2023. (Mega for Fox Information Virtual)
“I had a greenhouse and I really like planting seeds and my greenhouse, they it, they lifted it up,” she added. “They caught it, it’s prime. You realize, they threw it on best of a complete bunch of stuff. It’s a $3,000 greenhouse.”
In step with Macedonio, police modified the locks at the area so the circle of relatives needed to download new keys.
Ellerup mentioned investigators broken one of the most circle of relatives’s non-public assets, together with some that have been treasured.
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Macedonio mentioned the circle of relatives continues to be within the technique of taking inventory of the wear to the house.
“We simply were given again from the place of abode,” he mentioned. “We are making an itemized checklist of all issues. Since she simply returned house we do not know the level of the wear or what’s lacking. We’re going to be involved with the DA’s administrative center.”
Rex Heuermann pleaded now not accountable on July 14 and his circle of relatives has now not visited him since his arrest.
