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 further 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 daughter, Victoria Heuermann, is without doubt one of the essential interview topics in Peacock’s The Gilgo Seaside Killer: Home of Secrets and techniques docuseries — out at the moment — and provides her POV on the horrific crimes her father is accused of committing.

Victoria recalled her father being “very busy for a pair years” with huge jobs whereas she was in faculty, telling viewers she at all times “seemed as much as him” and felt he left “some actually huge footwear to fill” for her.

She defined that his “very demanding” job as an architect is one thing that was “weighing on his psychological well being,” claiming that he would generally “come dwelling pissed off.” She, nonetheless, stated he was by no means bodily abusive and claimed “the worst he would do was he would throw a plate into the sink.”

“That is the worst,” she stated.

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

Victoria defined that everybody knew Heuermann was additionally an avid hunter. “It was no secret he had weapons, he was an open ebook,” she defined.

“A variety of media, they’re calling the vault, the kill room. That is the place he saved all his weapons,” she stated. “As a child, he confirmed them to me, he did educate me to point out me methods to use a gun after I was sufficiently old. However the vault was at all times locked. The one time I used to be in there was after I was in there.”

“Say in the event that they actually did occur down right here, he actually should have been like Superman for us to not discover something ever,” she added. “This was his bed room rising up. A variety of his gun stuff, his childhood stuff, household heirlooms had been on this room. For him to try this on this room, somewhat unrealistic however I suppose not unimaginable.”

Victoria’s feedback come after her mom, Asa Ellerup, defined that the vault 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.”

Ellerup filed for divorce from Heuermann after his July 2023 arrest. Per PEOPLE, the divorce was finalized this previous April. Whereas Ellerup would not focus on the explanations for the cut up — and appears fairly insistent on her husband’s innocence all through the doc — Victoria gave her opinion.

“I perceive why she divorced my dad. They did the divorce to guard the property,” she claimed.

“It is now legally her home, she was married to him, she will get the property within the divorce,” added Victoria. “If we misplaced the home, we’d be homeless. It is our home. But it surely doesn’t suggest that we’re not a household anymore.”

As investigators constructed their case in opposition to Heuermann, they surveilled Victoria — and pulled her DNA after she took a sip from an power drink on a Lengthy Island Railroad practice. That DNA was essential to linking her father to the murders, thrusting her and her household into the highlight.

“I went from being a standard individual … to this laughing inventory everywhere in the web and TV and information. I felt humiliated,” she stated of all the eye that got here with the case.

“I do know I haven’t got something to be shameful about. I did not actually really feel like an individual. They ask questions, ‘Why did not see something? How did I not know?’ I used to be 10, 12 and 13 years previous when these women had been murdered,” she then stated. “I used to be in class, which takes up chunk of the day after which I used to be dwelling or doing after faculty actions. And that is precisely how I would not know something. And now that I truly look again on my childhood I do discover it laborious to consider my dad truly did all of this.”

Regardless of all of the proof collected by prosecutors all through the investigation, Victoria stays firmly “on the fence” with regards to her dad’s guilt.

“The duty pressure is alleging two days after we went on trip, my dad murdered Megan and discarded her whereas we had been away,” she stated, earlier than being requested by a producer whether or not she thinks the timing is solely a coincidence.

“I am unsure about it. I do not know whether or not it did or did not occur. On the time, I used to be 13 years previous. I noticed him at common occasions day-after-day. Morning, night time and the holidays he did be part of us on,” she continued. “However on the similar time, there was plenty of hours our of the day I additionally was not dwelling, together with holidays that he didn’t be part of us on. That is precisely what I imply by on the fence.”

“He was very a lot round 90% of the time, however there’s that 10% he was not,” she added. “I really feel like I can not know whether or not he did or did not. I used to be not round for it, I used to be too younger to know.”

Victoria stated she’s “not selecting a facet” till she sees all of the proof for herself through the trial, as a manner of “defending myself” and her sanity. “With all this proof rising in opposition to him, possibly there’s some loyalty nonetheless to my dad and to my mother too. Whether or not the world likes it or not, whether or not I prefer it or not, he is my dad. They cannot take that away from me,” she added.

When requested whether or not it is doable for her to like him if he is discovered responsible, she added, “If he is responsible, it’ll begin to turn into a love-hate relationship. I really like him as my dad, the hate is the opposite facet of him that got here out. And going ahead, I am not going to work together with him the identical manner I might have if this by no means occurred. Each the emotions, love and hate, can coexist.”

Victoria, at one level within the doc, additionally spoke with Kerri Rawson, the daughter of the BTK killer, bonding over their wrestle to just accept the proof and allegations about their fathers.

“My self worth and self value is six toes beneath. I really feel like I do bounce between despair and anger,” Victoria informed Rawson. “Why am I even right here anymore? There are individuals on the market who need me useless. I used to be 13 years previous on the time, why do I’ve to go?”

Rawson may relate, saying she additionally skilled dying threats from those that did not consider she knew nothing about her father’s murderous methods. She then questioned whether or not Victoria had visited her father in jail.

“I visited him as soon as. What’s scary is, even after I noticed him or visited him in jail, he appeared like himself and the way he at all times is,” stated Victoria. “It is so laborious to even consider the truth that he is this sick killer. However on the similar time, like, as a result of I used to be so younger on the time, I additionally do not know what he isn’t this sick killer. I mentally put together myself for the final word consequence.”

Rawson stated it took her a very long time to just accept the reality as a result of “it would not match the person I do know,” including that she is typically mad about what he did whereas additionally unhappy that he is now not round for her as a father.

“Whether or not or not I consider my dad did it or not, I am on the fence about that,” Victoria concluded. “Half of me believes he did not do it, however on the similar time, he may have completely had a double life.”

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