Gilgo Beach killer Rex Heuermann shipped out of Long Island as ex-wife gives blunt parting message
Good riddance.The ex-wife of Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann said Thursday that he got what he had coming — even as the hulking brute was shipped upstate to start serving a life sentence for butchering eight sex workers.“She believes Rex got what he deserves,” Bob Macedonio, the lawyer for the killer’s former spouse, Asa Ellerup, told The Post.“She believes the sentence was 100% appropriate and her thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families.”Heuermann, 62, was sentenced to three life terms in Suffolk County court Wednesday after pleading guilty to strangling his victims to death between 1993 and 2010, torturing and dumping the bodies.The confessed killer was taken from the Suffolk County jail on Thursday morning transferred to the Green Haven Correctional Facility in Dutchess County, the county sheriff’s office and state officials said.
“Rex Heuermann is currently undergoing admission processing at Green Haven Correctional Facility, one of the department’s designated intake facilities,” a rep for the state Department of Correction and Community Supervision said in an email.Authorities have not revealed which prison will ultimately be Heuermann’s forever home.The 6-foot-4 Massapequa Park architect confessed to killing eight women and dumping their bodies along desolate stretches of Long Island, where they were found starting in December 2010.The cases remained unsolved until the investigation was reopened in 2022 and led to Heuermann’s arrest the next year — partly thanks to DNA from a pizza box he tossed in the trash.In April, Heuermann confessed to killing Amber Lynn Costello, 27; Megan Waterman, 22; Melissa Barthelemy, 24; and Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, who were famously known as the “Gilgo Four” — as well as Valerie Mack, 24; Jessica Taylor, 20; and Sandra Costilla, 28, the first victim killed in 1993.He also copped to killing Karen Vergata, 34, whose 1996 murder had not been linked to him.All but one...