RIVERHEAD, N.Y.— Asa Ellerup, the ex-wife of convicted Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann, said through her attorney Friday that the 62-year-old architect "got what he deserved" when a New York judge hit him with the maximum possible sentence this week for a string of murders between 1993 and 2010."She believes the sentence is appropriate for his crimes, and obviously he got what he deserved," said Ellerup's attorney, Bob Macedonio.
"You can’t kill eight people.She’d never condone any of that."Heuermann has not yet been in contact with his ex-wife or children since being transferred out of the Suffolk County Jail Thursday, Macedonio said.
He was being processed at Green Haven Correctional Facility in Stormville, New York, but it was not immediately clear where he will serve his sentence.FOLLOW FOX TRUE CRIME ON FACEBOOKGilgo serial killer Rex Heuermann appears inside a courtroom for sentencing at Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, N.Y., on June 16, 2026.(James Carbone/Newsday)Ellerup infamously revealed that she now sleeps in the room where her ex tortured and killed seven of the eight victims in the latest episode of "The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets" docuseries on Peacock."The brutal truth is that Rex Heuermann said he dismembered the bodies in this room," she says in the episode.
"That is the brutal truth.OK.
Now.There's me.
I'm in this room.And I'm here because I do feel spiritual.
I am trying to say spiritually, in my own way, that I am really sorry for what these victims went through."Judge Timothy Mazzei ripped into the hulking Heuermann at sentencing Wednesday, calling him a "coward" and "small man" for the "despicable" murders of eight women, all around 100 pounds and 5 feet tall.GILGO BEACH SERIAL KILLER REX HEUERMANN SLAMMED AS ‘SMALL MAN’ AS JUDGE GIVES MAX SENTENCE FOR MURDER SPREE"Mr.Heuermann, as Mr.
Tierney said, I know that you're sorry you got caught.I assume that you're sorry for what you've done to your wife and chi...