When a home is not a home anymore due to a man’s failure to protect the family and put them in a heartbreaking situation. The wife of the Gilgo Beach serial killer reminisces over the wreckage of their home after her husband’s arrest.
Gilgo Beach serial killer wife and children devastated after being arrested at their home (Photo: Metro UK)
The wife and children of the serial killer
According to their mother, the two children of accused serial killer Rex Heuermann “cry themselves to sleep” as she describes their horror at his claimed acts and their bewilderment at locating their home turned upside down by detectives.
Asa Ellerup, 59, the estranged spouse of Heuermann, told the New York Post on Monday that she and her family had been shocked by the recent events and had been astounded by the condition of their home after police had spent 12 days looking for evidence.
Heuermann was detained on July 13 and accused of killing three sex workers whose bodies were discovered on a beach on Long Island in 2010. On July 19, less than a week later, Ellerup filed for divorce. The couple had two kids: a boy with special needs, Christopher Sheridan, 33, and a daughter, Victoria Heuermann, 26, who worked for her father’s Manhattan architecture firm.
Serial killer pleaded not guilty
After the family home was searched, Ellerup said that her family’s possessions, which are currently stacked in boxes or otherwise scattered across their floors, serve as a continual reminder of Heuermann’s alleged crimes.
Ellerup told ABC News that her kid, who has developmental delays, now spends the night in a chair because of the circumstance.
Heuermann was detained in Manhattan earlier this month and accused of killing Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello, whose bodies were discovered in December 2010 draped in burlap on the South Shore of Long Island. In addition, authorities identified him as the “prime suspect” in the slaying of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, a fourth lady who was found dead in the same location. But he entered a not-guilty plea.
