Is Asa Ellerup suffering from anxiety? Gilgo Beach murders suspect Rex Heuermann’s wife says children ‘cry themselves to sleep’
LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK: Rex Heuermann's estranged wife claimed that after his shocking arrest, her two children "cry themselves to sleep" leaving their Long Island home in utter disarray. Rex Heuermann is accused of killing multiple people at Gilgo Beach.
Asa Ellerup, 59, revealed in an exclusive interview with The Post on Monday that she had been plagued by anxiety due to the investigators' 12-day destruction of her Massapequa Park home in their quest for proof of the alleged murders.
'My children cry themselves to sleep'
She claimed that the damage was so severe that she is without a bed to sleep in. A still-shocked Ellerup said, "I woke up in the middle of the night, shivering, Anxiety." She added, "My children cry themselves to sleep. I mean, they're not children. They're grown adults but they're my children, and my son has developmental disabilities and he cried himself to sleep."
Victoria Heuermann, her daughter, has stated that she feels "not human" as a result of the mess that has been left behind. Ellerup's attorney, Bob Macedonio, responded when asked what she meant, "She meant what they've done to them and the family is not even human. They were just complete animals. They treated them like animals."
Even though the house appears uninhabitable, Ellerup claimed, "It's the only thing I have. She said, "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. She added, "But I said, 'We're together," Ellerup said. "'That's really what matters right now. That you and me are sitting here together and we will get through this."
The imposing architect was detained and charged on July 13 with three gruesome cold-case killings, forcing Ellerup, her special needs son Christopher Sheridan, 33, and her 26-year-old daughter Victoria Heuermann to leave their ranch-style home abruptly.
About the suspected serial killer
Rex Heuermann, a married father of two and suspected serial killer from New York City, was detained in connection with the long-unsolved Gilgo Beach murders. The arrest is connected to the so-called "Gilgo Four," four women who were discovered wrapped in burlap days apart in late 2010.
The discovery of more than ten sets of human remains between December 2010 and April 2011 along Suffolk County's Ocean Parkway, close to Gilgo Beach, sparked a lengthy investigation that ended with the arrest. The majority of victims were small, hazel- or green-eyed sex workers. However, there were two exceptions: a young Asian man and a girl who was only two years old, as per reports.
