EXCLUSIVE Gilgo Beach suspect's wife's very intimate reason she went back to live in spine-chilling 'murder house'

Daily Mail​

12 hours ago

The wife of Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann has revealed her romantic reason for wanting to return to the home where he allegedly murdered seven women.
In a clip from the new Peacock docuseries 'The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets,' exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com, Heuermann's family members are seen coming back to the Massapequa Park property in the aftermath of the police raid.
The 61-year-old suspect was arrested in July 2023 on suspicion of being the depraved serial killer who had terrorized Long Island and evaded capture for more than a decade.
Following his arrest, the family's home was transformed into a crime scene, with law enforcement descending on the property for evidence linked to the murders.
In the exclusive clip, the accused killer's wife Asa Ellerup and their adult children Victoria and Christopher are seen surveying the chaos and damage left behind.
Victoria, who worked with her father at his Midtown Manhattan architecture firm, complains that the mess feels like cops are 'trying to leave us for dead.'
'When we got back home after they raided it, it was not recognizable,' she says.
'No beds, no clothes, our bathroom sink was broken. They should have actually deemed our house uninhabitable.'
She adds: 'It was as if they were trying to leave us for dead.'
But, despite the mess - and the haunting secrets the house may hold - Ellerup reveals why she wanted to move back in.
'We needed to come home. We have a lot of sentimental stuff in the house,' she says.
'And I still feel Rex is here,' she adds.
Ellerup's sentimental view of her husband of two decades comes as she refuses to believe he could be the infamous Gilgo Beach serial killer.
Elsewhere in the new docuseries, she gushes over her husband, calling him 'my hero' and 'wonderful' and describing the first time she visited him in prison as like going 'on a first date.'
She insists authorities have 'the wrong man' for the heinous crimes.
'I know what bad men are capable of doing,' she says.
'I've seen it, and I've heard it from other men. Not my husband. You have the wrong man.'
The series marks the first on-camera interviews the family has done - and the first footage from inside the home where the killings are alleged to have taken place.
In the exclusive clip obtained by DailyMail.com, the footage shows the family members among piles of their belongings as they discuss some items being broken and another being 'pulled out of the wall.'
At one point, the camera hones in on an old doll in a display case, a Satanic poster and a mug emblazoned with 'Rex.'
Photos also show mountains of boxes and household items strewn around the home and a panel cut out of the bathtub.
'The kids they were crying themselves to sleep before we actually got into the house,' Ellerup says.
'We were all doing it. Fear anxiety, guilt, all of those emotions are going like a rollercoaster, rolling, rolling and rolling and rolling.'
Heuermann has lived in the home in Massapequa Park his whole life, with Ellerup moving in when the couple wed in 1995.
He is now charged with the murders of seven women over a two-decade reign of horror running from 1993 to 2011.
All the victims were working as sex workers when they vanished.
Their bodies were then found dumped along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach as well as other remote spots on Long Island.
Some of the victims had been bound, while others had been dismembered and their remains discarded across multiple locations.
Since Heuermann's arrest, prosecutors have unveiled a trove of evidence against him, including hairs belonging to him and his family members found on some of the victims, cellphone data placing him in contact with some victims, and a chilling 'planning document' where he allegedly intricately detailed his kills.
He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Fears that a serial killer or killers were at large on Long Island began back in May 2010, when Shannan Gilbert vanished in bizarre circumstances one night.
The 24-year-old, who was working as a sex worker, had gone to see a client in the Oak Beach Association community when she made a terrifying 911 call, saying that someone was trying to kill her.
During a search for Gilbert in December 2010, officers came across the body of Melissa Barthelemy in the marshes by Gilgo Beach.
Within days, three more women's bodies - Amber Costello, Maureen Brainard-Barnes and Megan Waterman - had been found.
The four victims, who became known as the Gilgo Four, had been dumped within a quarter mile of each other, some of them bound and wrapped in burlap.
Over the following months, the remains of seven other victims were found.
Gilbert's body was found last. Investigators maintain that she was not a victim, but died by accidental drowning after she fled into the dense thicket that night.
The Gilgo Beach serial killer case went unsolved for more than a decade - hampered by a corrupt police chief, James Burke, who was ultimately jailed for beating a man who stole sex toys from his police cruiser.
In July 2023 - following the launch of a new taskforce - Heuermann was dramatically arrested as he left his office in midtown Manhattan.
He was initially charged with the murders of three women: Costello, Barthelemy and Waterman.
Since then, he has been charged with the murders of four more victims: Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Sandra Costilla, Jessica Taylor and Valerie Mack.
Costilla had never been linked to the Gilgo Beach serial killer case until Heuermann was hit with charges for her murder in 2024.
Her murder expands the timeline that the accused serial killer is alleged to have been actively preying on victims to more than 30 years ago.
Melissa Barthelemy (top left), Amber Costello (top right), Megan Waterman (bottom left), and Maureen Brainard-Barnes (bottom right) became known as the 'Gilgo Four'
Sandra Costilla (left) was murdered in 1993, making her the earliest known victim. Karen Vergata's (right) remains were identified in 2023. Heuermann has not been charged in connection to her death
Valerie Mack (left) disappeared in 2000 and parts of her body were discovered in Long Island that November. Jessica Taylor (right) vanished in 2003 with some of her remains being found in Manorville that year
Heuermann had been linked to the murders following a tip about a pickup truck.
According to a witness, Costello had disappeared after going to see a client who drove a green Chevy Avalanche in September 2010.
He also matched the description of the client seen by the witness.
Hairs belonging to Heuermann, Ellerup and Victoria were found on some of the victims, according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors said investigators have also found a chilling 'planning document' on a hard drive in the basement of Heuermann's family home including a section detailed 'PREP' and noting that 'small' women were preferred.
Heuermann has not been charged in connection to the deaths of the other four victims found along Ocean Parkway: Karen Vergata, Tanya Jackson and her two-year-old daughter Tatiana Dykes, and an unidentified victim, known only as 'Asian Doe.'
Jackson - a US Army veteran - and her infant daughter were finally identified this April, having for years been known only as 'Peaches' and 'Baby Doe.'