Long Island serial killer Rex Heuerman, who pleaded guilty earlier this month to the murders of eight women, told his wife he killed seven of them in their home, according to an excerpt from an upcoming documentary episode released Monday.
Mr. Heuermann’s wife, Asa Allerup, who has divorced him, told her lawyer in the Peacock documentary, “The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets,” that when Mr. Heuermann agreed to talk to her about the murders, “he seemed very nervous – very, very nervous.”
“I said to him, ‘So, Mr. Heuermann, I understand that you are confessing to me about these murders,'” she says. “‘Can you please tell me how many of these women you killed?’ He said eight.”
“They said I was not home during all of that,” says Ms. Ellerup, who is in her 60s and who, according to prosecutors, was on vacation with her children when the crimes occurred.
His attorney, Bob Macedonio, asks him if a woman was murdered in his home in Massapequa Park on Long Island.
“She said yes, they were killed downstairs in her room, all but one,” says Ms. Ellerup.
Most of the women’s remains were found at or near Gilgo Beach on the south shore of Long Island, about a half-hour drive from the Heuerman home.
Part It is not known when the conversation between Ms. Ellerup and her then-husband took place. This episode will be released on Thursday. This is the finale of a four-part series.
Mr. Heuerman, 62, an architectural consultant with a successful practice in Manhattan, was arrested in July 2023. Ms. Ellerup filed for divorce a few days after his arrest.
A few months later, Peacock, the NBCUniversal-owned streaming service, struck a deal to pay Mr. Heuerman’s family to participate in a documentary series leading up to the end of his trial, angering some victims’ families.
There will be no trial: Mr. Heuerman, who faced seven murder charges and initially claimed his innocence, pleaded guilty on April 8 to all seven plus an eighth, with whom he had not yet been charged. He said that he had strangled all the women.
He is expected to be sentenced to several life terms in prison.
Mr Macedonia said in a statement on Monday night: “This has been an extremely emotional and painful process for the family to endure, and to accept the allegations that Rex Heuerman was the Gilgo Beach serial killer. Ms Allerup would like the focus to remain the same – on the victims and their families, who have suffered immeasurable and lasting loss.”
corey kilgannon Contributed to the reporting.
