Wife of Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Huermann has been battling breast and skin cancer for
The wife of the Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann has breast and skin cancer and now plans to sue over the search that destroyed her home.
Lawyers for Asa Ellerup, 59, released new images of inside her family home after the police spent more than a week scouring for evidence.
In a press conference on Friday, Ellerup’s lawyers said they would file a notice of claim over the search because their civil rights have been violated.
Heurmann is accused of killing Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Lynn Costello, who disappeared in 2009 and 2010.
Asa Ellerup, the wife of Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann, has been battling breast and skin cancer for years
Disgraced architect Heurmann is accused of killing Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Lynn Costello, who disappeared in 2009 and 2010
Melissa Barthelemy, 24, was the first body discovered, while Megan Waterman, 22, from Maine was found in December 2010
Maureen Brainard-Barnes was 25 years old when she went missing (left). Amber Lynn Costello was 27 years old. Their bodies were found near Barthelemy’s the same day
He is the main suspect in the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, who vanished in 2007.
Brainard-Barnes’ body was bound by a belt that was stamped with the initials ‘WH’ or ‘HM’ – which police said could match relatives of Heuermann.
Macedonio previously said that the family found their Massapequa Park home in total disarray and belongings scattered on the floor as investigators scoured for evidence.
Ellerup previously told DailyMail.com that she doesn’t ‘want to walk down the street’ and hears what those who live nearby say about their home.
‘The neighbors want the house gone,’ she said. ‘They want it bulldozed.’
Ellerup filed for divorce to ‘protect herself’ from any future lawsuits and has spoken with her husband in jail, her attorney revealed Monday.
She said that some neighbors had been charitable, as a Gofundme started by Melissa Moore, the daughter of the Happy Face Serial Killer Keith Hunter Jesperson, which has raised over $20,000.
Ellerup has been largely quiet since her husband was taken into custody on July 18, 10 years after the bodies of his alleged victims were found on Gilgo Beach.
A ‘major excavation’ took place at Heuermann’s Massapequa Park home. Pictured are State Police investigators gathering evidence at the scene
Brainard-Barnes’ body was bound by a belt that was stamped with the initials ‘WH’ or ‘HM’ – which police said could match relatives of Heuermann
A forensic photographer is seen bending over the tray of objects excavated from the back yard of Heuermann’s house. Prosecutors say ‘nothing of note’ was discovered in the back yard
She has not been charged and is not believed to have been involved in any way in her husband’s alleged crimes.
Prosecutors say Ellerup, who is Icelandic, was out of town every time her husband killed. After he was charged, she was seen filing divorce papers at a Long Island courthouse.
The couple have two adult children – a daughter Victoria Heuermann, 26, who worked at her father’s Manhattan architecture firm, and a son Christopher Sheridan, 33, who has special needs.
The new pictures and images come after attorney John Ray called a surprise press conference, in which he is expected to call Ellerup a ‘suspect’ and not a victim in the Gilgo Beach murders.
It is currently unclear why Ray is taking this stance, but he previously claimed that he thought a ‘female accomplice’ was involved in the killings.
Vergata’s legs were found in a plastic bag at Davis Park on Fire Island’s Blue Point Beach nearly two decades prior on April 20, 1996. Her skull was then found off Ocean Parkway in 2011
Investigators have identified a seventh victim in the Gilgo Beach murders – known as ‘Jane Doe 7’ or ‘Fire Island Jane Doe’ – as Karen Vergata, 34. She is pictured in a school photo
Heuermann last appeared in court on August 1, and appeared dishevelled as the prosecution handed his lawyer Michael Brown four hard drives worth of evidence.
The judge banned the release of four, two terabyte hard-drives of evidence which have been handed to attorneys and investigators, but which will not become public.
Heuermann will return to court in September. Speaking after the hearing, Brown sparred with the media and insisted on his innocence.
‘He told me he didn’t do this,’ he said, before bemoaning the size of the evidence file and how long it will take to go through it.
‘The DA has a whole office… I’m just one guy. Just to pore through the discovery is an enormous task but we’re going to do it, we’re prepared to do it.
‘Whether it’s one year or a year and a half, whenever that day comes we’re looking forward to defending this case,’ he said, adding that he would try to have the trial moved out of Suffolk County.
‘This case is one we are going to try in the courtroom.’
Heuermann was arrested in connection to the murders of three women whose bodies were found dumped in burlap sacks on Gilgo Beach
Ellerup’s attorney says they tore through every inch of the home during their investigation and left it a mess
It comes after investigators identified a seventh victim in the Gilgo Beach murders – known as ‘Jane Doe 7’ or ‘Fire Island Jane Doe’ – as Karen Vergata, 34, who went missing in 1996.
They said Vergata lived in Manhattan, worked as an escort. and was never reported missing.
District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney declined to comment on whether Heuermann is connected to Vergata’s murder but emphasized he has not been charged.
The newly identified victim’s legs were found in a plastic bag at Davis Park on Fire Island’s Blue Point Beach nearly two decades prior on April 20, 1996.
Her skull was then found off Ocean Parkway, near Tobay Beach in Nassau County; her torso and hands were never recovered.
Police said they developed a DNA profile from Vergata’s remains in August 2022 after the Gilgo task force was created. That October the FBI was able to identify the remains with genetic genealogy using a swab from one of her relatives.
It comes after case investigators added the profile of teen girl from the Bronx, Judith Ramona Veloz, who vanished in 1993 to the national missing persons database last October – months before they arrested Heuermann.
Heuermann was linked to one of the killings through mitochondrial DNA profile from a pizza crust and a used napkin that he discarded from his Midtown Manhattan office
District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney declined to comment on whether Heuermann is connected to Vergata’s murder but emphasized he has not been charged. Heuermann seen in sketch from his August 1 hearing
Victoria Heuermann, 26, and step-brother, Christopher Sheridan, 33, said they are ‘not foreclosing on’ seeing their father in his Suffolk County incarceration, but will also not rush into making a decision
Veloz was 19 when she went missing from Manhattan nearly 20 years before the Gilgo Beach Four and other remains in the area were discovered.
The suspected serial killer is being looked at for crimes across the US, with Suffolk County and the FBI leading the investigation.
Cops are probing whether he operated in the Atlantic City area, and have been interviewing jailed sex workers who interacted with him.
The investigation now covers four states – Heuermann owns a time-share in Las Vegas and a property in South Carolina – and police are investigating if he could be connected to any unsolved killings there.
Officers executed search warrants at his home in Chester, South Carolina, and recovered a green Chevrolet Avalanche truck they believe is connected to the suspect and one of the murders and transported it back to New York.
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