Gilgo Beach Murders Suspect Rex Heuermann's Wife Makes Bizarre Admission About Her First Jail Visit
The alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer, Rex Heuermann, has received praise from his wife, Asa Ellerup.
In an interview for an upcoming Peacock series, which focuses on the crimes her husband is accused of, Ellerup described him as her "hero."
She also claimed that the police got the "wrong man," seemingly suggesting that Rex Heuermann isn't guilty of murdering seven sex workers on Long Island over nearly three decades.
Nearly two years have passed since Rex Heuermann was first arrested in connection with the cold-case murders of three young sex workers and later charged in the deaths of four additional victims, who were also sex workers.
As part of the police investigation, several pieces of evidence were found linking the Manhattan architect to the crimes, including DNA matches to the victims and newspaper clippings about the murders.
However, what many now view as an open-and-shut case is believed by the accused's wife, Asa Ellerup, to be a case of mistaken identity.
Speaking during a bombshell interview in the upcoming Peacock docu-series "The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets," the 61-year-old boldly claimed that her "wonderful" husband isn't capable of the crimes he is being accused of.
"I know what bad men are capable of doing," she said in a clip from the show (via the New York Post). "I've seen it, and I've heard it from other men. Not my husband. You have the wrong man."
In the interview, Ellerup also spoke lovingly about her husband and reflected on some of the moments they spent together before his arrest.
"He's my hero," she said about Heuermann. "There were times where he was working, but I'd call him, and he would come by and pick me up."
The 61-year-old also recalled visiting him in prison and how her first jail visit came with mixed feelings of excitement and nervousness.
"I haven't seen him in all this time, and when I went down there, I was excited, and like I was, I don't know, I guess on a first date. You're nervous, you're scared. You don't know how the date is gonna go," Ellerup said.
Since then, those visits reportedly became more frequent, about once a week. However, according to the mother of two, she has been afraid to be truly open with him due to her paranoia that their conversations might be recorded.
Elsewhere in the interview, Ellerup described her husband as a devoted family man, contrary to the narrative that paints him as a serial killer.
"I don't believe he did this. I don't see what everybody else is saying. I don't see phone calls to sex workers," she said. "I picked him up from the train station every single day. He was home here on the weekends. He smoked a cigar in the garage."
Elleruo continued, "If he told me that he went out to Lowe's to pick something up and he was gone for an hour, no freaking way is this man going out soliciting sex from a sex worker, killing them and dumping them on Gilgo Beach."
Even though Heuermann could face a life sentence if convicted, Ellerup remains hopeful that everything will ultimately work out.
"I want him to come back home to me," the mother of two stated. "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."
She added, "He's a family man, period."
The murders Heuermann is being accused of occurred between 1993 and 2010, with their bodies found along Ocean Parkway in December 2010.
He was initially charged with the murders of Amber Costello, Melissa Barthelemy, and Megan Waterman, and later with the deaths of four more victims: Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Sandra Costilla, Jessica Taylor, and Valerie Mack.
Heuermann has pleaded not guilty to all the charges, a move that suggests he is determined to fight for his innocence.
For now, a trial date is yet to be set, and Heuermann remains in detention at the Riverhead Correctional Facility in Suffolk County, New York.

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