Gilgo Seashore serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann’s estranged spouse says her two kids ‘cry themselves to sleep’ after his arrest – and divulges their Lengthy Island dwelling has been left a wreck by cops’ 12-day search
Accused serial killer Rex Heuermann’s two kids ‘cry themselves to sleep’, their mom has stated – describing their horror at his alleged deeds and their shock at discovering their dwelling turned the wrong way up by investigators.
Asa Ellerup, 59, filed for divorce from Heuermann on July 19 – lower than per week after his arrest.
Heuermann was arrested on July 13 and charged with the homicide of three intercourse staff whose our bodies have been discovered on a Lengthy Island seashore in 2010.
Ellerup was away from dwelling when the ladies are believed to have been killed.
The couple have two kids – a daughter Victoria Heuermann, 26, who labored at her father’s Manhattan structure agency, and a son Christopher Sheridan, 33, who has particular wants.
Ellerup on Monday stated they’d all been left traumatized by the occasions of the previous few weeks, and shocked by the state of their home after police spent 12 days searching for evidence.
Asa Ellerup, 59, stated on Monday that the household had been left in shock by her estranged husband Rex Heuermann’s arrest on July 13
Ellerup is seen together with her son Christopher Sheridan. She stated the 33-year-old, who has particular wants, was ‘so distraught and would not perceive’
Victoria Heuermann, 26, labored at her father’s architectural agency
Ellerup and the 2 grownup kids have moved again into the Massapequa, Lengthy Island, dwelling
She stated that after her dwelling was turned the wrong way up and brought aside, she doesn’t have a mattress to sleep in.
‘I awoke in the course of the evening, shivering,’ she instructed The New York Post.
‘Nervousness.
‘My kids cry themselves to sleep. I imply, they are not kids. They’re grown adults however they’re my kids, and my son has developmental disabilities and he cried himself to sleep.’
Victoria Heuermann instructed family she was feeling ‘not human’.
Ellerup’s lawyer, Bob Macedonio, defined: ‘She meant what they’ve performed to them and the household shouldn’t be even human. They have been simply full animals. They handled them like animals.’
Heuermann, 59, was arrested on July 13 and charged with the homicide of three girls, present in 2010 at a seashore close to his dwelling
The house of Rex Heuermann was first searched by police after his arrest on July 13
Police remained on the scene for 12 days
New York State Law enforcement officials are seen carrying an unlimited array of proof out of Rex Heuermann’s dwelling in Massapequa Park, NY, on July 17
Ellerup stated she was shocked on the state of her home after the police left.
‘I had three cats. Litter packing containers have been a strew, thrown on high of every little thing. My footage have been thrown in every single place,’ she stated.
‘My sofa was fully shredded. I do not even know if there’s any components to the sofa.
‘There was a Pelican case in my home which had garments in it, and inside a Pelican case they’ve foam. I used to be capable of take two items of froth and put it collectively so I might lay down.
‘My yard, I am unable to even clarify it.
‘I had a greenhouse and I like planting seeds and my greenhouse, they it, they lifted it up. They caught it, it is excessive. You recognize, they threw it on high of an entire bunch of stuff. It is a $3,000 greenhouse.’
She stated her son’s guitar was damaged, and her daughter’s Dungeon and Dragons playing cards taken.
The locks have been modified, so the household wanted to get new keys.
They’re now making a listing of the injury, and talking to the district lawyer’s workplace.
The suspect’s home sits immediately north of Gilgo Seashore throughout the South Oyster Bay
An aerial view of the realm close to Gilgo Seashore and Ocean Parkway on Lengthy Island
The primary sufferer, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, was found by Suffolk County Police on December 11, 2010. The physique of Megan Waterman, 22, was discovered two days later
Maureen Brainard-Barnes was 25 years outdated when she went lacking (left). Amber Lynn Costello was 27 years outdated. Their our bodies have been discovered close to Barthelemy’s the identical day
Ellerup, who was married to Heuermann for over 20 years, stated that she had no selection however to reside in the home.
‘It is the one factor I received,’ she instructed the paper.
‘We did get one other chair out from the basement and upstairs so me and my son can sit and speak. He is so distraught and would not perceive, and as a mom, I’ve no solutions for him.
‘However I stated, ‘We’re collectively. ‘That is actually what issues proper now. That you just and me are sitting right here collectively and we are going to get by way of this.”
Macedonio stated Ellerup was ‘blindsided’ by her husband’s arrest.
‘She was in full shock. Utterly caught without warning,’ the lawyer stated.
Heuermann is due again in court docket on Tuesday for a quick listening to.