NEW YORK (AP) — The daughter of accused Gilgo Seaside serial killer Rex Heuermann believes he “most likely” dedicated the notorious killings in New York at the same time as her mom steadfastly defends her ex-husband’s innocence in a brand new documentary launched Tuesday.
The admission from Victoria Heuermann isn’t made on digital camera however by means of a press release from producers close to the tip of “The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets,” a three-part documentary on NBC’s streaming service Peacock.
“A week before the series release, Victoria Heuermann told the producers that based on publicly available facts that have been presented and explained to her, she now believes her father is most likely the Gilgo Beach killer,” reads a press release on the shut of the ultimate episode of the documentary, which was produced by musician 50 Cent’s manufacturing firm, G-Unit Movie and Tv.
Bob Macedonio, an legal professional for Heuermann’s now ex-wife, Asa Ellerup, stated in a press release after the documentary’s launch that “time will only tell” whether or not his consumer will ever settle for that her husband could have been a serial killer.
Heuermann’s lawyer didn’t instantly reply to an electronic mail looking for remark.
The Manhattan architect has been charged with killing seven ladies, most of them intercourse staff, and dumping their our bodies on a desolate parkway not removed from Gilgo Seaside on Lengthy Island, some 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Manhattan.
He has pleaded not responsible and is due again in Riverhead courtroom June 17 as a choose continues to weigh whether or not to permit key DNA proof into the trial.
Within the documentary, Victoria Heuermann struggles to reconcile her childhood reminiscences with the portrait of the killer described by authorities.
She says her father was across the household “90% of the time” and was by no means violent towards any of them.
On the identical time, Victoria Heuermann acknowledged there have been occasions when he stayed residence whereas the household went on trip and that she was round 10 to 13 years outdated when the killings occurred. Prosecutors say Heuerman dedicated a few of the killings within the basement whereas his household was out of city.
“Whether or not I believe my dad did it or not, I’m on the fence about that,” stated the now 28-year-old. “Part of me thinks he didn’t do it, but at the same time, I don’t know, he could have just totally had a double life.”
Ellerup, for her half, maintained she noticed no “abnormal behavior” of their almost three a long time of marriage.
She dismissed a pc file prosecutors declare is a “blueprint” of his crimes as “absurd.”
The doc includes a sequence of checklists for earlier than, throughout and after a killing, reminiscent of a “body prep” guidelines that features amongst different gadgets a notice to “remove head and hands.”
Ellerup additionally shrugged off different proof prosecutors have enumerated in courtroom paperwork, together with an unlimited assortment of bondage and torture pornography discovered on digital units seized from their residence, and hairs linked to Heuermann that had been recovered on a lot of the victims’ our bodies.
On the identical time, she revealed that in July 2009, across the time one in all his alleged victims went lacking, Heuermann immediately renovated a toilet whereas she and their two kids had been on trip for weeks to go to her household in Iceland. However she famous her former husband finally joined the household for his or her remaining week of their journey.
“My husband, he’s a family man. He’s my hero,” Ellerup stated. “What I want to say to him is, ‘I love you, no matter what.’”
Ellerup divorced Heuermann after his arrest in 2023. However within the documentary, Victoria Heuermann says the separation was for monetary causes to guard the household’s belongings.
Certainly, the mom and daughter have been commonly attending courtroom hearings with their legal professional. The filmmakers even captured them talking to Heuermann by telephone from jail.
A Peacock spokesperson stated Ellerup was paid a location price and a licensing price to be used of household archive supplies, though the funds can not go towards the defendant or his protection funds.
The household, which additionally contains Ellerup’s grownup son from a previous marriage, is planning to place up its notoriously ramshackle home in well-to-do Massapequa Park on the market as they appear to maneuver to a property they personal in South Carolina.
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