Man charged in Gilgo Beach, Long Island serial killings

[palta]

Jul 20, 2023 21:15:05 GMT sputnik said:

it's also weird that he was so meticulous in his work at an architectural firm, and apparently did well and yet his house was a dilapidated mess. you'd think someone in his line of work would at least have a nice house?

'en casa de herrero, cuchillo de palo' lol

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[beeyotch]

Has anyone watched Lost Girls? I watched it recently because of its relation to this case and was wondering if they ever found who killed Shannan Gilbert? That Dr. who ran the "wayward girls" house? Didn't he own the property and marsh where her body was found? I wrongly assumed that her murder was by the LISK also.

[greysfang]

Wife of Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect and her attorney open up about the family’s experience since Rex Heuermann’s arrest
By Elizabeth Wolfe and Jessica Xing, CNN
Updated 11:06 AM EDT, Tue August 1, 2023

The wife of Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect Rex Heuermann and her attorney told CNN she had “no idea” about her husband’s alleged actions and the flood of public attention has been “extremely overwhelming” for the mother and her two children.

The days since Heuermann’s arrest have been “chaotic” for his wife, Asa Ellerup, and the couple’s children, as investigators have scoured every crevice of the family’s New York home and the property has been swarmed by media and curious onlookers, Ellerup’s attorney, Bob Macedonio, said on “CNN Primetime” on Monday night.

Ellerup doesn’t have a bed to sleep in, she told the New York Post on Monday. “My children cry themselves to sleep,” she said.

“I had three cats. Litter boxes were a strew, thrown on top of everything. My pictures were thrown all over the place,” Ellerup told the Post. “My couch was completely shredded.”

Heuermann is expected in court Tuesday for his first hearing since his initial court appearance. The hearing comes three weeks after he was arrested and charged with murder in the killings of three of the “Gilgo Four,” a group of women whose remains were found along a short stretch of Long Island’s Gilgo Beach in 2010.

He has pleaded not guilty in the killings of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Lynn Costello. “I did not do this,” his court appointed-attorney, Michael Brown, said Heuermann told him.

Heuermann, 59, is also the prime suspect in the disappearance and killing of the fourth victim, according to a bail application from prosecutors, but has yet to be charged in that case.

Since then, Ellerup has filed for divorce from Heuermann – to whom she has been married for 27 years – and returned to the family’s home, which her attorney said has been “torn up” by investigators.

Investigators uncovered “quite a lot of evidence” as they spent more than a week poring over the suspect’s home, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney has said. In addition to collecting a “massive amount of material” – including about 279 weapons – they also used a backhoe and ground-penetrating radar to search the yard, he said.

The family is still taking stock of what items have been taken by investigators, Macedonio said.

“Everything in the house was turned upside down,” he added. “Dresser drawers were emptied out. The bathroom tub – which was a vinyl tub – was actually cut open. The floors were ripped up. The couches and the mattresses have been removed.”

Due to piles of debris left by authorities, the family “barely had any walking space to get into the house,” Macedonio told CNN’s Laura Coates.

“We did get another chair out from the basement and upstairs so me and my son can sit and talk. He’s so distraught and doesn’t understand, and as a mother, I have no answers for him,” Ellerup told the Post.

“But I said, ‘We’re together. That’s really what matters right now. That you and me are sitting here together and we will get through this.’”

CNN has reached out to the Suffolk County Police Department and New York State Police for comment.

Authorities have said Ellerup and the children were out of town when the killings occurred.

Now, Ellerup is requesting privacy as the family grapples with their new reality.

“I am pleading with you all to give us space so that we may regain some normalcy in our neighborhood,” the wife said in a statement to CNN.

The spotlight on the family has attracted onlookers who show up at the home “just to get a glimpse of what’s going on at the house,” Macedonio said.

Ellerup has been in touch with Heuermann since his arrest, the attorney said, though he did not provide further details.

The wife and children have also received support, Macedonio said, including from the daughter of serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson, the so-called “Happy Face Killer.”

“It’s been extremely overwhelming for her and the children trying to piece life back together to what it was two and a half weeks ago,” Macedonio said. “I don’t know if they’re ever going to return to normalcy, but day by day she’s getting better.”

Investigating other possible murders
Authorities are “actively investigating” whether Heuermann may have had more alleged victims, Suffolk County Deputy Police Commissioner Anthony Carter previously told CNN.

Investigators have looked into properties Heuermann owns in South Carolina and Nevada.

“I don’t think any of us ever anticipated going that far and looking at any missing persons or any murders that may have occurred along the Eastern Seaboard,” Suffolk County Sheriff Errol D. Toulon Jr. said.

Though authorities had been looking into a possible link between Heuermann and the 2006 unsolved killings of four sex workers near Atlantic City, New Jersey, Suffolk County police said Monday that they now believe Heuermann is not connected to those cases.

www.cnn.com/2023/08/01/us/rex-heuermann-wife-gilgo-beach-killings-home/index.html

If you go to the link there are pics of the house all torn up and boxed up from the police search.

[shellee]

I feel so bad for her and the kids. How is she supposed to get her house back in order? Sad story all around.

[trixie]

I saw some online posts saying she is totally tone-deaf for whining about her messy house when 4 women are dead.

I do feel bad for her too, assuming she has no involvement, but I doubt the police give a shit, and I don't think she should hold her breath waiting for a clean up crew to show up.

It sucks that they hauled away all of the mattresses and couches so they don't even have anywhere to sleep but the floor I guess.

[sputnik]

^^^
I think it's perfectly valid for her to feel the way she feels, and I feel bad for her as well. I really hate that kind of petty bullshit thinking though, it's so judgy and moralistic and pointless. this idea that people aren't allowed to be upset because someone else has it worse. She's not responsible for those murders just because she's married to the guy, and sure she wasn't one of his victims but finding out your spouse is a goddamn serial killer is fucking traumatic, and then having the police come and tear up your home is a huge violation. She has every right to feel the way she feels.

[lindsaywhit]

^^^ Yup. Everything Sput said.

[kittylady]

Jane Doe #7 has finally been identified. Her name was Karen Vergata and she was 34 when she disappeared in 1996. Her legs and skull were found in two different locations. Her torso has never been recovered.

[no1novice]

Aug 3, 2023 14:28:32 GMT sputnik said:

^^^
I think it's perfectly valid for her to feel the way she feels, and I feel bad for her as well. I really hate that kind of petty bullshit thinking though, it's so judgy and moralistic and pointless. this idea that people aren't allowed to be upset because someone else has it worse. She's not responsible for those murders just because she's married to the guy, and sure she wasn't one of his victims but finding out your spouse is a goddamn serial killer is fucking traumatic, and then having the police come and tear up your home is a huge violation. She has every right to feel the way she feels.

I heard an interview with Kerri Rawson (Dennis Raider's daughter - specifically not using his moniker as she said the media rairly uses her name when writing about her) and she was very eloquent about how they knew nothing about his "other life".

[o0amber0o]

I mean they cut into her bathtub ffs, I think she has every right to be upset. Totally agree with what Sput said, this "my pain is worse than yours because it's mine" mentality is obnoxious.

There's a killer that Bailey Sarian covered, and I don't remember who it was - I can figure it out if someone is interested, but he basically had a chop house in his garage that his wife had no clue about. She was told to not go in it and she complied with his request, at one point a woman was dead in the garage for a week or something when they were away on vacation.

[lindsaywhit]

Aug 4, 2023 21:21:04 GMT o0amber0o said:

I mean they cut into her bathtub ffs, I think she has every right to be upset. Totally agree with what Sput said, this "my pain is worse than yours because it's mine" mentality is obnoxious.

There's a killer that Bailey Sarian covered, and I don't remember who it was - I can figure it out if someone is interested, but he basically had a chop house in his garage that his wife had no clue about. She was told to not go in it and she complied with his request, at one point a woman was dead in the garage for a week or something when they were away on vacation.

Hah! If my husband had given me this instruction when we still lived together I would have hired a locksmith within the hour. 

[kittylady]

Aug 5, 2023 11:56:55 GMT lindsaywhit said:

Aug 4, 2023 21:21:04 GMT o0amber0o said:

I mean they cut into her bathtub ffs, I think she has every right to be upset. Totally agree with what Sput said, this "my pain is worse than yours because it's mine" mentality is obnoxious.

There's a killer that Bailey Sarian covered, and I don't remember who it was - I can figure it out if someone is interested, but he basically had a chop house in his garage that his wife had no clue about. She was told to not go in it and she complied with his request, at one point a woman was dead in the garage for a week or something when they were away on vacation.

Hah! If my husband had given me this instruction when we still lived together I would have hired a locksmith within the hour. 

Bloke has a mancave in the form of our spare room. I rarely venture in there out of choice but if he deliberately told me to stay out of there without a reasonable explanation I wouldn't even bother waiting for a locksmith - I'd be full Jack Nicholson on that shit.

[o0amber0o]

TBF it was a mid-century young marriage type deal - I found the video if anyone is interested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qCld8mtSNs

I forgot about the shoe bit LOL

[greysfang]

Wow!

Police conduct another search on Gilgo suspect Rex Heuermann’s home

Updated May 20, 2024, 11:54 a.m. ET

Their bodies were discovered on ​isolated sandy stretches along Ocean Parkway between 2010 and 2011​, but ​their slayings remained unsolved for ​more than a decade.

Cops reopened the case in early 2022 and identified Heuermann as a suspect in the grisly murders in about two months.

Heuerma​nn has been held at the Riverhead Correctional Facility in Suffolk County since his arrest.

Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon told People magazine last week that the hulking accused killer is confined to a 60-square-foot cell and is kept largely separated from other inmates.

Toulon said Ellerup, who avoided her troubled ex for months, now visits him at the jail about once a week.

He said Heuermann has slowly adapted to life behind bars.

“In the beginning​, he was a little bit more starry-eyed as to his surroundings,” the sheriff told the outlet. “Life has transformed over the last several months.

“He receives visits, he makes phone calls, and he doesn’t congregate with the rest of the population because of the crimes he’s accused of.”

Toulon said Heuermann, who is allowed one hour of exercise in the jailhouse yard, spends most of his time reading, watching TV or reading over documents from his murder case.

Residents told The Post on Monday that they are upset by all the renewed local upheaval.

“None of us were expecting this this morning! It’s very upsetting,” said a woman who lives nearby.

“They’ve already done this. What prompted them to do it again?” she said of authorities.

Tavella added, “It’s getting ridiculous.

“Get it, and get out of here,” he said of probers seeking evidence. “It was just starting to get back to normal. I thought this was over! They were here so long. You’d think they found everything that they could find.”

nypost.com/2024/05/20/us-news/police-conduct-another-search-on-gilgo-suspect-rex-heuermanns-home-report/

[kittylady]

May 20, 2024 21:40:30 GMT greysfang said:

Wow!

Police conduct another search on Gilgo suspect Rex Heuermann’s home

Updated May 20, 2024, 11:54 a.m. ET

Their bodies were discovered on ​isolated sandy stretches along Ocean Parkway between 2010 and 2011​, but ​their slayings remained unsolved for ​more than a decade.

Cops reopened the case in early 2022 and identified Heuermann as a suspect in the grisly murders in about two months.

Heuerma​nn has been held at the Riverhead Correctional Facility in Suffolk County since his arrest.

Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon told People magazine last week that the hulking accused killer is confined to a 60-square-foot cell and is kept largely separated from other inmates.

Toulon said Ellerup, who avoided her troubled ex for months, now visits him at the jail about once a week.

He said Heuermann has slowly adapted to life behind bars.

“In the beginning​, he was a little bit more starry-eyed as to his surroundings,” the sheriff told the outlet. “Life has transformed over the last several months.

“He receives visits, he makes phone calls, and he doesn’t congregate with the rest of the population because of the crimes he’s accused of.”

Toulon said Heuermann, who is allowed one hour of exercise in the jailhouse yard, spends most of his time reading, watching TV or reading over documents from his murder case.

Residents told The Post on Monday that they are upset by all the renewed local upheaval.

“None of us were expecting this this morning! It’s very upsetting,” said a woman who lives nearby.

“They’ve already done this. What prompted them to do it again?” she said of authorities.

Tavella added, “It’s getting ridiculous.

“Get it, and get out of here,” he said of probers seeking evidence. “It was just starting to get back to normal. I thought this was over! They were here so long. You’d think they found everything that they could find.”

nypost.com/2024/05/20/us-news/police-conduct-another-search-on-gilgo-suspect-rex-heuermanns-home-report/

I wonder if his wife starting to visit him and the new searches are connected? Maybe he's started giving details to her?