Estranged wife of accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann visited him in jail
NEW YORK — Accused Gilgo Beach killer Rex Heuermann spent some time with his estranged wife in a jail visiting room, his spouse’s divorce lawyer confirmed Thursday.
Asa Ellerup, 59, who shared a home with Heuermann up until his July 13 arrest, visited the accused serial killer at the Suffolk County Jail in Riverhead, Long Island, Wednesday, according to her lawyer, Bob Macedonio.
“Yes, Asa did visit Rex at the jail yesterday. For about an hour. I have no further comment,” Macedonio told the New York Daily News.
Ellerup filed for divorce six days after the 59-year-old architect was busted for the cold-case murders of three Long Island sex workers, Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy and Amber Costello.
At his last court hearing Sept. 27, Heuermann’s lawyer Michael Brown said he still communicates with his wife and two children from jail.
Brown did not immediately return a message seeking comment Thursday.
“As per policy we do not release the names of visitors, but I can confirm that Rex Heuermann received a visit yesterday,” Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Victoria DiStefano said in a statement Thursday.
“Rex Heuermann is allowed the same visitations that all other inmates are entitled to. Visits are 1 hour and visitors are allowed to embrace once at the beginning and end of the visit. All inmates are searched after visits.”
Ellerup told reporters in August that investigators left the family’s Massapequa Park house in shambles during their 12-day search for evidence of the 2009 and 2010 murders.
“The people in this neighborhood, they want this house gone,” she said. “They want it bulldozed, you understand? They want it gone.”
Prosecutors have said in court filings that Ellerup was traveling when Heuermann is believed to have hunted his victims.
She was in Iceland in July 2009 when Barthelemy, 24, went missing from her Bronx home, and was visiting Maryland in June 2010 when Waterman, 22, was videotaped leaving a hotel with a client, believed to be her killer. Ellerup was traveling to New Jersey when Costello, 27, disappeared in September 2010.
