Exclusive | Wife of accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann says hes her hero and reveals creepy take on first jailhouse visit
The wife of accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann says he’s her “hero’’ — and that it was like falling in love with him all over again when she first saw him behind bars.Asa Ellerup, 61, said during an explosive interview in the upcoming Peacock docu-series, “The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets” that she is convinced cops have the wrong guy — and that her “wonderful” husband isn’t the monster who killed and mutilated seven sex workers on Long Island over nearly 30 years.“I know what bad men are capable of doing,” she told the show, which begins airing Tuesday.“I’ve seen it, and I’ve heard it from other men.
Not my husband.You have the wrong man.”“I want him to come back home to me,” Ellerup said.
“They’re trying to sit there and tell me that, but I have no knowledge of what they keep talking about.‘Oh, you must have known.’ Know what? My husband was home here.
He’s a family man, period.”Heuermann, a hulking Manhattan architect, was arrested in July 2023 at his Midtown office and charged with the cold-case murders of three young sex workers.Suffolk County prosecutors later also charged him with the murder and mutilation of four other victims, all also sex workers whose bodies were dumped along Ocean Parkway over nearly 30 years.He allegedly kept news clips of the brutal slayings in his basement.Despite a mountain of evidence, including DNA matches to all the victims, among them hairs from Ellerup and the couple’s daughter, Victoria, the accused fiend’s wife continues to believe her husband is innocent.Adopted by Icelandic immigrants, Ellerup met a “tall, dark, handsome” Heuermann when she was an 18-year-old working at a Long Island 7-11, she said, adding that the pair formed an immediate bond.Ellerup said she was molested at 16 by a classmate, tried to commit suicide and was forced to hide in a dumpster for hours at 19 to foil a kidnapping attempt — making the hulking Heuermann her savior.S...