Rex Heuermann was initially arrested in 2023 and charged with the murders of Amber Lynn Costello, Melissa Barthelemy, and Megan Waterman. Then, in January 2024, he was additionally charged with the homicide of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, earlier than extra homicide fees for Jessica Taylor, Sandra Costilla and Valerie Mack got here later within the 12 months. He has pleaded not responsible throughout the board and awaits trial.

The suspected serial killer’s spouse, Asa Ellerup, is likely one of the foremost interview topics in Peacock’s The Gilgo Seaside Killer: Home of Secrets and techniques docuseries — out in the present day — and provides her POV on the horrific crimes her husband is accused of committing.

Ellerup first seems within the second episode of the 3-part collection, as she first remembers their household dwelling being raided when her husband was first arrested.

“The night time of the raid, they drove us over to the resort and so they received us a room. They received a cop 24 hours outdoors, keeping track of me,” she recalled. “I watched the information, they had been taking baggage and baggage of stuff out of the home. My head, it is spinning.”

Ultimately, they returned to the house — the place prosecutors suspect Heuermann might have really killed a few of his victims — to search out it a wreck from the search and seizure. “We would have liked to come back dwelling,” stated Ellerup, saying the had been biking by emotions of “concern, nervousness, guilt … all going like a curler coaster” on the time.

“They’ve lots of sentimental stuff in the home and I nonetheless really feel Rex is right here,” she added of why she needed to return to the home/potential crime scene.

At one level within the episode, Ellerup will get a cellphone name from her husband, as he awaits for his trial behind bars. Throughout the dialog, he asks how she’s doing, as she tells him, “I am doing nice, now that I’ve received you on the cellphone.” After he explains he is simply calling to “ensure you’re doing okay” and fill them in on jail meals — he had a burger and mashed potatoes for dinner — they cement their plans to have her go to later that week. It is a very fast name.

Whereas Ellerup says within the doc that they nonetheless speak on a regular basis, she explains that he can solely name throughout sure hours. She additionally stated she “cannot get too snug speaking about issues that may damage him,” including that telling him that she loves him “will damage him.”

She then went on to solid doubt on the costs in opposition to him, one thing she apparently continues to do to at the present time. “We had been 100% a part of one another’s lives. Does all people actually imagine all the things they hear?” she requested of viewers. “Do you actually imagine all the things that is being stated. We did not purchase it.”

Because the doc continues, the household is seen going by what has been dubbed as a attainable “kill room” — a locked room within the basement the place authorities discovered a cache of weapons.

As Ellerup confirmed it off to cameras, she defined that the door had a mixture lock on the skin, however a lever on the within, insisting “nobody can get locked in right here.” She stated the room was the place he “displayed his firearms assortment.”

She additionally admitted that Heuermann “did not need anyone to have entry to it,” calling it a “Secret room.” Although she added that “no person would know” it was there, she insisted he wasn’t “hiding something,” however solely “needed to safe a secure in there.”

“They’re choosing assumptions for his or her narrative. I do know that,” she added of investigators’ findings. “I do know what this room was initially used for and so they’re simply allegations.”

After attending her first court docket look for her husband, she defined it was “comforting” seeing him in particular person — not recognizing the particular person he was being labeled within the media.

I do not see him that method, that is not the Rex I do know,” she stated of the costs in opposition to him, as prosecutors have claimed all of the murders lined up with occasions Heuermann was alone on the household’s dwelling … whereas they had been away on trip.

“If you are going to sit there and inform me that he solely did this throughout these explicit time durations, I used to be away on trip, I’ve to query that,” she informed his lawyer. “If this man is that a lot of a genius that he is able to doing that, I do not imagine it.”

She additionally insisted her husband was “not seeing prostitutes,” calling him a “household man” who “did not do that.”

Particularly referring to the July 2009 disappearance of Melissa Barthelemy, Ellerup stated she and the youngsters had been on a visit to Iceland. She claimed that, on the time, her husband was at dwelling transforming the toilet.

“I keep in mind July 10, 2009, I deliberate a visit to go to Iceland for five weeks to go to my household. I requested Rex, ‘Are you okay with me taking the youngsters to spend time with my household?’ And he stated, sure. Rex was all the time working. Working, working, working to convey dwelling a paycheck,” she recalled.

“The explanation he did not include us on trip, is development constructing in highest in New York Metropolis in the summertime. He would additionally attempt to benefit from time we had been out of the home to do some reconstructing in the home,” she added, saying the entire rest room was “utterly gutted” and renovated whereas they had been gone, earlier than calling him a “downside solver.”

“I used to be in Iceland for five weeks. She went lacking July 10 and so they’re assuming she was held hostage right here on this home, he killed her and dumped her physique the night time earlier than he left for Iceland,” she added, saying he later joined the remainder of the household oversees. Investigators, in the meantime, have claimed  “taunting calls” made to Barthelemy’s household about her being homicide from an nameless particular person on the time stopped across the identical time he was in Iceland.

Megan Waterman was final seen on June 6, 2010 — whereas Heuerman’s spouse and youngsters had been on a visit to Six Flags in Maryland.

As for why he was MIA on that getaway, Ellerup stated, “Rex would not do curler coasters and he would not do water slides, as a result of he suffers from extreme movement illness. I had purchased season tickets to go to Six Flags for my kids.”

She added, “I am satisfied the particular person they’re searching for isn’t a household man.”

Maureen Brainard-Barnes was final seen on July 9, 2007 in New York Metropolis, the identical time Ellerup and the youngsters had been in Atlantic Metropolis on one other trip.

“They’re alleging my husband managed to go to work, solicit intercourse from a intercourse employee, sit on a prepare, after which come dwelling, make plans, choose ’em up, kill ’em, dump ’em, flip round and go to Atlantic Metropolis to come back see us?” she requested, bewildered on the accusations.

“I am sorry, it is bulls–t. Sorry for my language,” she exclaimed.

Jessica Taylor was final seen on July 21, 2003, earlier than her torso was discovered days later. At the moment, Ellerup and the youngsters had been on a trip to Vermont.

“The one factor I used to be serious about whereas I used to be on trip was making an attempt to do one thing enjoyable with my youngsters,” she claimed.

Their daughter, Victoria, additionally appeared on the docuseries and recalled her father having to remain dwelling to work. She stated that whereas they had been on trip, “he was all the time calling, a number of occasions a day” — including that it was not like her father to “simply drop off the map and never contact us.”

“It is by no means occurred to me he is checking to see, make it possible for we’re not coming dwelling early,” she then thought — earlier than including, “it is exhausting to think about these allegations, whereas we had been having enjoyable on trip and he was dwelling murdering, dismembering ladies right here.”

In keeping with Ellerup, she by no means noticed any “irregular habits” from her different half — insisting, “and if there was any data in any respect of some uncommon habits in that man, I’d have walked out the door.”

She added that he by no means hid his laptop from the household and by no means withheld the password, including, “There was nothing off limits from Rex Heuermann.”

Ellerup, at one level within the doc, additionally spoke with Kerri Rawson, the daughter of the BTK killer, about her shock over the allegations in opposition to her husband.

“The FBI woman, she tells me that my husband was with soliciting intercourse with a intercourse employee 2 days earlier than thanksgiving. I says ‘No, he was not doing that on that day,’” she insisted to Rawson. “Then she tells me he was dumping a physique on Gilgo Seaside the night time earlier than he referred to as me and I am sitting right here saying, ‘No!’ I am sitting right here considering, ‘What was my husband doing throughout that point interval? He was fixing up the toilet.’”

On the very finish of the collection, an off-camera producer brings up all of the proof stacked up in opposition to Heuermann to Ellerup, who stays steadfast in her perception her husband is harmless.

When requested if she’s nonetheless asking herself, “How may you not know?”, Ellerup replied, “No, I am not asking myself that query, as a result of I imagine I’d know. Till I see definitive proof, there is not any method I will know for positive whether or not or not I noticed the indicators.”

When requested about how, as prosecutors famous, “an evaluation of those gadgets has revealed Heuermann’s important assortment of violent, bondage, and torture pornography, at present courting again to 1994,” Ellerup once more hedged.

“I don’t know that they are his. I actually truthfully do not,” she replied, earlier than a producer requested if she believes the fabric belonged to another person, however was on Heuermann’s exhausting drive. She did not reply.

The producer then introduced up how seven hairs throughout six completely different our bodies linked to their household, with Ellerup merely calling that proof “circumstantial.” When requested a few sample displaying he allegedly solicited intercourse at any time when they had been out of city and escorts wound up murdered, she stated, “I am not going to imagine any of that data till I see it … All of us have to attend for the court docket case to play out, interval.”

“My husband, he is a household man. He is my hero. What I need to say to him is, I like you, it doesn’t matter what,” she added.

The doc ended with the household speaking about promoting their dwelling.

“Now that this life on this home is coming to an finish, it makes me really feel like there is a new starting,” stated Ellerup. “What that life goes to be life, I have no idea. I’ll discover out ultimately. And I’ll cope with it the very best that I can. I did what I needed to do to guard myself and my kids.”

Peacock’s The Gilgo Seaside Killer: Home of Secrets and techniques is streaming now.