Asa Ellerup, the wife of accused Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann, returned to the couple’s Massapequa Park home this week and was stunned at the destruction left behind by the nearly two weeks investigators spent meticulously searching the residence.
Ellerup, 59, filed for divorce shortly after Heuermann’s arrest for the murders of three of the four “Gilgo 4,” women found dead and buried in burlap sacks on Gilgo Beach in 2010, as CrimeOnline reported. He is the prime suspect in the death of the fourth. She spoke with The New York Post after she and her two children were allowed to return to the house.
“My children cry themselves to sleep. I mean, they’re not children,” she said. “They’re grown adults but they’re my children, and my son has developmental disabilities, and he cried himself to sleep.”
Ellerup said her return to the house with Christopher Sheridan, 33, and Victoria Heuermann, 26, was shocking. “[The police] walked up, they went into the vehicles, and out the door, they went,” she said. “Out. They left. And when I got into the house I might have had a few steps of walking space between my front door and the kitchen.”
The family found a single chair in the rubble left behind.
“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.”
Photos from inside the house so boxes piled high and trash left everywhere.
“I had three cats. Litter boxes were a strew, thrown on top of everything. My pictures were thrown all over the place,” Ellerup said. “My couch was completely shredded. I don’t even know if there’s any parts to the couch.”
She told The Post she took foam out of a hard shell Pelican case to make a space to lie down. And the police trashed her greenhouse outside.
“I had a greenhouse, and I like planting seeds and my greenhouse … they lifted it up. They stuck it, it’s high. You know, they threw it on top of a whole bunch of stuff. It’s a $3,000 greenhouse.”
Ellerup’s attorney, Bob Macedonio, said they’re making an itemized list of the damage and missing items. “We’ll be in touch with the DA’s office, ” he said.
Heuermann, 59, is due back in court on Tuesday for a brief hearing. He has pleaded not guilty.
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[Featured image: Asa Ellerup/Facebook and Rex Heuermann/Suffolk County Police Department via AP]
