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Gilgo Beach Murders Published July 19, 2023 6:55pm EDT

Rex Heuermann's wife pictured for

first time as she files for divorce from
Gilgo Beach serial slaying suspect
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Asa Ellerup filed for divorce from husband Rex Heuermann on Wednesday, her lawyer tells Fox
News Digital

By Michael Ruiz | Fox News

Probe of Gilgo Beach murders expands to South Carolina

Fox News' Nate Foy reports the latest on the investigation of Rex Heuermann.

MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. — Asa Ellerup, the wife of suspected Long Island serial killer Rex
Heuermann was pictured for the first time Wednesday, the same day she filed for divorce
,

and less than a week after New York police arrested her husband on a half-dozen cold
case murder charges.

Her Islip-based lawyer Bob Macedonio told Fox News Digital that they had filed a
summons and complaint for divorce as he entered the Suffolk County Jail in Yaphank —
where Heuermann is being held on suspicion that he killed three women and hid their
bodies in the brush at Gilgo Beach, about 45 miles east of New York City.

"This is all still a whirlwind," Macedonio said. "Her and her children's lives have been
completely turned upside-down."

GILGO BEACH MURDERS: SOUTH CAROLINA NEIGHBORS SAY SECRECY SURROUNDS

SUSPECT REX HEUERMANN, ‘ODD’ BROTHER

Asa Ellerup and Victoria Heuermann walk through a Best Buy parking lot on Tuesday. (Dario Alequin for Fox News Digital )

Just over an hour after Suffolk County police arrested Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect,
on Thursday near his office on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, authorities arrived at the family
home in Massapequa Park and informed his wife and adult children of the accusations,
Macedonio said.

Then they seized the family's passports, computers, phones and iPads, Macedonio said.

GILGO BEACH SUSPECT REX HEUERMANN STALKED EX-COP AFTER TRAIN

ALTERCATION, RIDER SAYS

Rex A. Heuermann, an architect in his late 50s who lived a 20-minute drive from Gilgo Beach in Massapequa Park, New
York, appears in what investigators decribe as "selfie" photographs taken from the fictitious Springfieldman9 AOL account,
as part of a bail application by the Suffolk County District Attorney's office on Friday. (Suffolk County Court/Handout via
Reuters)

"They were home and the cops came in, and they were completely blindsided, and they
told them what was going on," he said.

Police have kept possession of the house for almost a week, roping off the block as
investigators continued to process the scene — where they recovered hundreds of guns
and other evidence, including a portrait of a battered woman. They also searched
Heuermann's property in South Carolina and seized two Chevrolet Avalanche pickup trucks
— the same make identified as a suspect vehicle in the disappearance of one of the Gilgo
victims.

Asa Ellerup and Victoria Heuermann walk through a Best Buy parking lot on Tuesday. (Dario Alequin for Fox News Digital )

Heuermann pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of first- and second-degree murder in the
deaths of Melissa Barthelemy, 24; Megan Waterman, 22; and Amber Costello, 27.

GILGO BEACH MURDERS: THE INVESTIGATION IN PHOTOS

They were killed between June 2007 and September 2010 and found wrapped in
camouflaged burlap off Ocean Parkway in December 2010.

Heuermann is also the prime suspect in the death of a fourth victim Maureen Brainard- ,

25.

Asa Ellerup and her daughter Victoria Heuermann cross the road on Monday. They are the wife and daughter of accused
Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann. (Dario Alequin for Fox News Digital )

A task force with members from multiple law enforcement agencies allegedly linked
Heuermann to the crime scene with a witness statement in Costello's disappearance and
through phone records and a DNA sample collected from a box of pizza the suspect
tossed in a New York City trash can.

GILGO BEACH MURDERS: NEW YORK STATE POLICE, FBI IMPOUND EVIDENCE FROM
SOUTH CAROLINA

Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said last week that police also found
Heuermann's wife's DNA on some of the victims — but she was out of town during each of
the murders and has not been named a suspect.

Asa Ellerup and her daughter Victoria Heuermann cross the road on Monday. They are the wife and daughter of accused
Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann. (Dario Alequin for Fox News Digital )

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Her husband allegedly met sex workers on the internet and through dating apps and lured
them out — then killed them and dumped their bodies on a remote stretch of Ocean
Parkway about 45 miles east of New York City.

Police discovered the four women's remains while searching for another missing woman,
Shannan Gilbert, who vanished after calling 911 in another beach community on the same
parkway.

Counter-clockwise from left: Amber Lynn Costello, 27; Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25; Megan Waterman, 22; and Melissa
Barthelemy, 24, disappeared after meeting with a client on Craigslist. The remains of the women were found in December
2010 at Gilgo Beach on Long Island, New York. (Suffolk County Police Department)

Heuermann is due back in court Aug. 1.

He faces up to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole if convicted.

Fox News' Julia Bonavita contributed to this report.

Michael Ruiz is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to michael.ruiz@fox.com and
on Twitter: @mikerreports

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