Rex Heuermann has only gotten jail visits from his attorney
Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann has been visited by his attorney — but not his adult kids or estranged wife — in the two weeks he’s been jailed, The Post has learned.
Heuermann, 59, can watch television, including the news, and request newspapers, though he has not yet asked for a copy of the paper, Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Victoria DiStefano told The Post Thursday.
The jail does not offer access to the Internet.
But the 59-year-old has so far only been visited by one person — his attorney — during his time in the slammer, where he remains on suicide watch and is kept in a jail cell alone, DiStefano said.
He also gets regular recreation time in a yard outdoors, can receive mail and has access to a law library, all while being kept until a strict security protocol.
“We will continue to cease all movement when he is outside of his housing unit to ensure the protection of our officers, Heuermann and all of the individuals incarcerated in the Suffolk County Correctional Facility,” DiStefano wrote in an email to The Post.
Rex Heuermann’s estranged wife, Asa Ellerup, was seen outside the family’s Massapequa Park home Thursday. James Messerschmidt for NY Post
Rex Heuermann’s estranged wife, Asa Ellerup, screamed at reporters after returning to her family’s home Thursday. James Messerschmidt
Rex Heuermann’s wife, Asa Ellerup, and their adult children returned to the family home Thursday. James Messerschmidt for NY Post
The life he knew as a successful, married, New York City architect was completely upended July 13, when he was arrested in connection with the years-old murders of at least three women.
Heuermann’s estranged wife, Asa Ellerup, and their kids returned to the family’s Massapequa Park home Thursday morning, when Ellerup screamed at reporters and flipped them the bird.
“Don’t talk to me,” she could be heard shouting at a reporter from the front yard of her home, where her son also sat. “Wanna take pictures? Go ahead … Don’t talk to me.”
Rex Heuermann’s wife, Asa Ellerup, has filed for divorce. James Messerschmidt for NY Post
When asked if she was staying in the home, Ellerup responded: “Please, leave me alone. That’s none of your business.”
She then gave reporters the middle finger before the video cut out.
Her kids, 26-year-old Victoria Heuermann and Christopher Sheridan, 33, were also present, with the elder appearing to wipe his face and cover his eyes.
Rex Heuermann was a successful New York City architect and business owner. Rex Heuermann Consultants & Associates
Police scoured Rex Heuermann’s Massapequa Park home, which he shared with his wife and two children. New York Post
Police had spent days digging the property in a search for new evidence against Heuermann, from whom Ellerup has since filed for divorce. Before discontinuing the search at the home earlier this week, they revealed the discovery of a sound-proof, walk-in vault.
The village of Massapequa Park is now reportedly considering buying the home in an attempt to quell the consistent flood of media and true crime fanatics to the area.
Heuermann’s shocking arrest came 13 years after several women were found killed along Long Island’s Gilgo Beach and surrounding areas.
Melissa Barthelemy, top left, Amber Costello, top right, Megan Waterman, bottom left, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes. AP
He has been charged with six counts of murder — three in the first-degree and three more in the second — in the deaths of Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, Amber Lynn Costello, 27.
The women’s bodies were found along the same stretch of Long Island’s Gilgo Beach between June and September 2010.
Heuermann is also being eyed in the case of the death of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, whose body was found on the same beach years earlier.
Who were the Gilgo Beach victims? Suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann — a New York City architect and married dad of two — was arrested in connection with the long-unsolved Gilgo Beach murders. The arrest is tied to the so-called “Gilgo Four,” women found wrapped in burlap within days of each other in late 2010. The years-long investigation that led to the arrest revolved around the discovery of more than 10 sets of human remains along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach in Suffolk County between December 2010 and April 2011. Most victims were petite female sex workers with green or hazel eyes. But there were also two exceptions: a 2-year-old girl and a young Asian man. Melissa Barthelemy, 24 Barthelemy was a sex worker who lived in the Unionport section of the Bronx and dreamed of one day opening her own beauty salon. She was last seen alive in her basement apartment on Underhill Avenue on July 12, 2009. Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25 Brainard-Barnes was living in Norwich, Connecticut. She went missing after taking an Amtrak train from New London, Connecticut, to Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan on July 6, 2007. Amber Lynn Costello, 27 Costello, 27, was a sex worker and heroin addict who lived in West Babylon, New York, at a home with a woman and two men. She advertised on Craigslist and Backpage to support her and her roommates’ drug habits. Costello was found in December 2010 after having been last seen leaving her home that September. Megan Waterman, 22 Waterman, a 22-year-old mom of one, was last seen on June 6, 2010. She lived in Scarborough, Maine, and earned a living as an escort. She was last seen by her family boarding a New York-bound Concord Trailways bus in Maine. Her body was found on December 13, 2010, on the north side of Ocean Parkway, near Gilgo Beach. Jessica Taylor, 20 Remains belonging to Jessica Taylor, a 20-year-old woman working as an escort in New York City, were found in a wooded area in Manorville on July 26, 2003. Her additional remains — initially labeled “Jane Doe No. 5” — were discovered on March 29, 2011, along Ocean Parkway. Valerie Mack, 24 Valerie Mack was 24 years old and living in Philadelphia when she went missing. She worked as an escort, using the alias “Melissa Taylor.” Relatives last saw Mack in the spring or summer of 2000 in Port Republic, New Jersey, but she was never reported as missing to the police. Her partial skeletal remains were found in Manorville in September 2000 but were initially known as “Jane Doe No. 6.” Unidentified Asian man The skeletal remains of a yet-to-be-identified Asian man were found along Ocean Parkway on April 4, 2011. It is estimated that the man was between 17 and 23 years old at the time of his death. He was approximately 5 feet 6 inches tall with bad teeth. ‘Peaches’ and her daughter An African American woman’s partial remains were discovered in Hempstead Lake State Park back in 1997, and she had become known as “Peaches” because of a bitten tattoo of a peach on her left breast. On April 4, 2011, police uncovered the remains of a toddler, who was about 2 years old at the time of her death. DNA testing confirmed that one of the skeletons was that of the 2-year-old girl’s mother, “Peaches.” Jane Doe No. 7 Remains found on April 11, 2011, along with the body of the woman dubbed “Peaches” was linked by DNA to a body that was found 15 years earlier on Fire Island. On April 20, 1996, skeletal remains of a young white female were discovered in Davis Park on Blue Point Beach. Two sets of remains, collectively known as “Jane Doe No. 7,” have not been identified. Shannan Gilbert, 23 Gilbert was a Craigslist escort who lived in Jersey City, traveled with her driver Michael Pak from Manhattan to meet a client, Joseph Brewer, at his home in the Oak Beach Association on the morning of May 1, 2010. She spoke with two neighbors before disappearing. Her body was discovered in a marsh near Oak Beach — about half a mile from where she was last seen alive — on December 13, 2011.
Jail officials previously said Heuermann was “very comfortable” in his cell within the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office’s Riverhead Facility.
“He’s indicated to my staff that he would not be any issue to us and would be extremely compliant, so we’ll see how that plays out in the days and weeks ahead,” Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon previously told WCBS 880.
Source: New York Post
