Long Island Serial Killer Snared: Heuermann Guilty! Wife's Reality Show?

Summary

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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Episode: Long Island Serial Killer Snared: Heuermann Guilty! Wife's Reality Show?

Release Date: April 9, 2026

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Episode Overview

Nancy Grace dissects the dramatic court developments in the Long Island serial killer case, focusing on Rex Heuermann’s unexpected guilty plea, the impact on the victims’ families, and the ensuing media circus—including a controversial reality show centering on Heuermann’s ex-wife. The episode explores the horrors endured by the victims, law enforcement’s ongoing search for additional bodies, and ethical questions raised by the family’s participation in profit-driven media projects. Grace is joined by a panel of experts: investigative journalists, retired law enforcement, forensic analysts, and a trauma psychologist, all offering unique insights into both the criminal investigation and the troubling aftermath.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Rex Heuermann’s Guilty Plea and Courtroom Dynamics

• Sudden Guilty Plea: Rex Heuermann, long suspected in the Gilgo Beach murders, unexpectedly pleads guilty to multiple counts, foregoing a lengthy trial and stirring emotion in court.
  • “The calm, serene, almost grandfatherly image that Rex Heumann portrayed since his arrest was a lie...exposed for exactly what he is, a sadistic, soulless, murderous monster.” — DA Ray Tierney (03:27)
• Absence of Justice for Families: Without a trial, critical details of the crimes remain sealed, depriving families and the public of full transparency.
  • “Once again...we will never really know the facts because there is no trial.” — Nancy Grace (04:12)
• No Death Penalty: Unlike in Idaho (referencing the Kohberger case), New York law precludes capital punishment, raising questions about justice and closure.

2. Heuermann’s Behavior—Chilling Smirks and Lack of Remorse

• Smirking in Court: Heuermann displays a disturbing lack of remorse, constantly smirking, never once acknowledging the victims’ families.
  • “He never once turned back to look at the families. He was smirking. And the question is, why was he smirking?” — Josh Zieman (06:36)
• Unanswered Questions: Panelists speculate that the smirk could indicate hidden victims or satisfaction in evading justice fully.
  • “Was he smirking because he knew there were other victims out there that he was getting away with?” — Nancy Grace (07:00)
  • “Absolutely. For sure. It’s tragic.” — Josh Zieman (07:52)

3. Victims, Ongoing Searches, and the Grim Landscape

• Law Enforcement Perspective: Mike Gould (former Nassau County lieutenant) describes the Gilgo Beach area as haunting, isolated, and an ideal site for body disposal, complicating recovery efforts.
  • “Finding bodies is like finding a needle in a haystack.” — Mike Gould (09:42)
• Cadaver Dog Use: Despite high confidence in canine searches, the area’s vastness and terrain present major hurdles. The search is ongoing, and more victims are anticipated to be found.
  • “It’s not a question of if other bodies will be found...it’s just a matter of when.” — Mike Gould (11:10)
  • “There was police activity out there the other night...the search is on. It’s never going to end.” — Mike Gould (16:22)

4. Details of the Crimes: Torture, Planning, and Evidence

• Life and Death in the Dungeon: The panel details the known horrors—victims kidnapped, tortured for days, and murdered while Heuermann’s family was absent.
  • “These women weren’t just, bam, you’re dead. They were kidnapped, stripped, bound, tortured for days on end...” — Nancy Grace (08:30)
• Macabre Lists and Planning Documents: Investigators recovered chilling checklists from Heuermann’s computer, specifying methods of abduction, torture, body disposal, and “playtime.”
  • “Don’t hunt too long in one area...hit the victim harder...more playtime—in other words, torture.” — Nancy Grace (47:13)
  • “100,000 pictures that the district attorney has had to go through...It was sitting in this bytes of his computer that he could not erase.” — Josh Zieman (54:33)
• Trophy Hoarding: Heuermann kept extensive trophies, including 30-year-old newspaper articles and digital evidence, crucial in linking him to the crimes.

5. Media Fallout: The Wife’s Reality Show and ‘Blood Money’

• Controversial Docuseries: Heuermann’s ex-wife, Asa Ellerup, reportedly receives $1 million for her participation in “Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets.” The docuseries now plans additional episodes following the guilty plea.
  • “How do you think that makes the families of these dead women feel? These women kidnapped, tortured, raped, murdered...How do they feel about his wife getting a cool million?” — Nancy Grace (27:03)
  • “It’s one of those shocking things that pushes you over the edge...But now that the secrets are out, Asa Ellerup is going to be adding episodes.” — Dave Mack (28:41)
• Pay Structure Loopholes: Payment to the family framed as “licensing fees” for exclusive photos or videos, sidestepping Son of Sam laws preventing criminals and their families from profiting off notoriety.
  • “We can’t pay them...So we say, look, we’ll pay you for exclusive pictures, video access. So basically, we’re getting a million dollars for a picture that she’s handing over.” — Josh Zieman (34:56)
• Ethical Outrage: The panel expresses disgust, calling the family’s alleged ignorance and now profit-seeking “blood money.”
  • “It skeeves me out totally. I feel filthy and nauseous all at the same time just watching the trailer.” — Nancy Grace (27:03)
• Lawsuit from Victim’s Son: Benjamin Torres, son of victim Valerie Mack, sues Ellerup and the daughter, seeking damages and profits from the Peacock documentary.
  • “Torres alleges that he was deprived of his mother’s care and protection...seeks damages and targets the profits...from the Peacock documentary...” — Dave Mack (40:44)

6. Did the Family Know? – Patterns in Serial Killers’ Partners

• Naïveté or Wilful Blindness?: Debate on whether Asa Ellerup plausibly could have remained ignorant of the ongoing torture and murder in their own home.
  • “You want to tell me Asa Eller never noticed anything in the basement where women were stripped, raped, tortured and murdered? No way.” — Nancy Grace (37:01)
• Expert Analysis: Psychologist Karen Stark ties Ellerup’s behavior to a pattern observed in other serial killers’ partners: ignoring red flags to preserve their reality.
  • “She’s the kind of person who would ignore what she notices...there were hints, there were red flags all the time...but this is somebody who would not pay attention to them.” — Karen Stark (37:58)
• New Evidence: Hair belonging to Asa Ellerup was found on a victim’s body, further complicating claims of total ignorance.
  • “Asa Ellerup’s hair was actually found on Valerie Mac’s body, which opens up a whole nother can of worms.” — Nancy Grace (46:44)

7. Panelists Reflect: Evil Among Us, Community Trauma, and the Face of Monsters

• Double Life: The panel expresses horror that Heuermann looked and acted like any ordinary neighbor, professional, or father.
  • “He could be at your next dinner party…you never know the evil that lurks in anybody’s mind, frankly.” — Mike Gould (56:34)
• Victim Remembrance: Joseph Scott Morgan laments that, as so often happens, the killer’s name will be remembered, while the victims will fade from public consciousness.
  • “There are very few people that can go down the list of Ted Bundy’s victims and name them...the names of these victims will be forgotten.” — Joseph Scott Morgan (42:54)
• Advice for Healing: Families are counseled to seek support, continue speaking out, and fight for the memory and dignity of their loved ones.
  • “Be with each other. Keep talking about it. You must go on with your lives for the sake of the victims.” — Karen Stark (60:34)

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Memorable Quotes & Moments by Timestamp

• DA Ray Tierney:
  “He was exposed for exactly what he is, a sadistic, soulless, murderous monster.” (03:27)
• Nancy Grace:
  “What does this mean for his wife’s reality show? That’s certainly something to ponder.” (04:12)
• Josh Zieman:
  “He never once turned back to look at the families. He was smirking.” (06:36)
• Mike Gould:
  “Finding bodies is like finding a needle in a haystack.” (09:42)
• Karen Stark:
  “Serial killers...pick women who they know will ignore red flags, will not pay attention to all the little details that everyone else we know would pay attention to...” (36:02)
• Joseph Scott Morgan:
  “There are very few people that can go down the list of Ted Bundy’s victims and name them. I submit to you that the names of these victims will be forgotten...his name will trump everything else.” (42:54)
• Nancy Grace, on the licensing fee façade:
  “That gives them a way to say we’re not paying for these interviews, but they are. They’re paying for the pictures. Explain that whole bogus line.” (33:51)
• Karen Stark:
  “There is no doubt in my mind that he pleaded guilty because he didn’t want to go over the details. He has very specific details that he wants to keep to himself and maybe share with the FBI so he can get the fame that he’s been looking for.” (60:22)

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Important Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment/Topic | |-----------------|----------------------------------------------| | 03:27 | DA Ray Tierney’s emotional statement | | 04:12 | Nancy Grace on loss of trial transparency | | 06:36 | Josh Zieman recounts Heuermann’s smirk | | 09:42 | Mike Gould on the difficulty of recovery | | 11:10 | Role of cadaver dogs in the investigation | | 16:22 | Ongoing search and the area’s geography | | 27:03 | Nancy Grace on ‘blood money’ documentary | | 34:56 | Josh Zieman explains licensing fee loophole | | 42:54 | Joseph Scott Morgan on victim remembrance | | 46:44 | New evidence: Wife’s hair on victim | | 54:33 | Discovery of 100k+ images and mementos | | 56:34 | Mike Gould on dangers of hidden evil | | 60:34 | Karen Stark’s advice to victim families |

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Conclusion & Ongoing Questions

Nancy Grace closes the episode recognizing that, though Heuermann has pleaded guilty, justice and truth are still elusive for many. With more bodies likely to be discovered, the families’ suffering continues, compounded by media exploitation and unanswered questions about possible enablers and further victims. The panel universally condemns the monetization of the tragedy and underscores the need to remember the victims above all else.

“It’s not over yet. And we wait as justice unfolds.” — Nancy Grace (61:42)

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Transcript

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[Nancy Grace]

Crime stories with Nancy Grace. The Long island serial killer snared in court. Rex Heuerman, smirking the whole time, admits, I'm guilty. But wait, what does this mean for his wife's reality show? I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us. Sightings of the victims, phone calls from the victims, train rides by the victims. Victims that left and never came back. Keeping a victim alive for days on end so he could play with him. There are going to be more victims uncovered of the Long island serial killer Rex Heuermann.

[Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney]

The calm, serene, almost grandfatherly image that Rex Heumann portrayed since his arrest was a lie and quite frankly, an insult to both law enforcement, but more importantly, the families that had to endure that during every court appearance over the last two and a half years. Today, he was exposed for exactly what he is, a sadistic, soulless, murderous monster. This case closes and another one opens. You know, there are still, you know, bodies on that beach. There are still bodies in Suffolk County. There's no rest for the weary. We are going to continue to work with our partners and to try to obtain closure for as many families as we can.

[Nancy Grace]

That the police commissioner and the Suffolk county district attorney speaking, unmasked, finally in court in lieu of a long trial, a guilty plea. But just as we saw in the Idaho case, the Idaho Four for beautiful uniform University of Idaho students murdered, generally speaking, in their sleep by one person, Brian Kohberger. Once again, like in Kohberger, we will never really know the facts because there is no trial. Now, unlike Idaho, where the death penalty does exist, in Rex Heuerman's jurisdiction, you can kill as many people as you want and there is no death penalty. What does this mean for his wife's reality show? That's certainly something to ponder. Straight out to Crime Stories, investigative reporter Dave Mack. Dave Mack, a Long island serial killer. The Long island serial killer Rex Heuerman finally snared in court.

[Dave Mack]

What happened once this all hit court with the announcement that he was changing his plea? A lot of people were looking at Asa Eller up, as you just mentioned, and her reality show. It was a three part series that included interviews with the couple's daughter Victoria. And it looks like now the cameras are going to continue to roll and add additional episodes to the show called the Gilgo Beach Killer House of Secrets. So it looks like that show will continue.

[Nancy Grace]

Okay, I'm a Little more interested tonight. Dave Mack in the Guilty, Please. A sudden change of plea throws the courtroom in an uproar. Rex Heuermann, the admitted Long island serial killer, pleads guilty. In addition to Dave Mack, crime stories investigative reporter. Joining us also tonight, Josh Zieman, investigative journalist, documentary film director. He's been on the case from the very beginning and he is the director of the Killing Season. It's a docu series that helped shed new light on on the Gilgo beach murders. Josh, thank you for being with us. Describe what happened in court.

[Josh Zieman]

Well, Nancy, it was a tense moment for sure. Everybody waiting to see if Rex would actually plead. And he did eight separate times to these women. The question is, while he was admitting these crimes, he never once turned back to look at the families. He was smirking. And the question is, why was he smirking? Was he smirking because he was forced to admit what he'd done or because he knew there were other victims out there that he was getting away with?

[Nancy Grace]

You know, Josh, that is certainly a scary thought, scaring even me, who have actually prosecuted serial killers before, smirking. You know, I thought he was smirking at the victims families or at the justice system itself. But you again, have shed a whole new light on this. Is he smirking because he knows there are other murder victims, other defenseless women that he stripped, tortured and murdered, keeping them alive in his dungeon basement for days and days on end when his wife would be out of town? We think days. And you believe there is a chance that he's smirking because he knows there are other victims out there that haven't been found?

[Josh Zieman]

Absolutely. For sure. It's tragic.

[Nancy Grace]

I'm curious, why do you say that?

[Josh Zieman]

Because we know the remains that were deposited on Ocean Parkway, there's other folks. There's Asian Doe Carmen Vargas. There's numerous folks out there who. And have you heard the district attorney say it himself? You know, there are other bodies on that beach. And I was there at the press conference. He says sometimes it doesn't matter what I think. It matters what I can prove. And so his next goal is to try and prove it, to try and find these other victims, identify some of them, and again bring Rex to justice for these victims. Tragic.

[Nancy Grace]

Mike Gould joining us, former Nassau county lieutenant, founding member of the NYPD K9 unit. He's led multiple investigations into serial killers, including the Gilgo beach killer on Long Island. Also Secret Service, two presidents. Mike, thank you for being with us. That has got to put a shiver down your spine thinking that there are other victims I mean, the guy was just in court in the last hours pleading guilty to multiple murders. And these women weren't just, bam, you're dead. They were kidnapped, they were stripped, they were bound, they were tortured for days on end while his wife was away in his underground basement dungeon, and then ultimately murdered. They went through hell. And I wonder, I wonder, Mike, were they thinking of their children they would never see again? It's excruciating for me. I hate to even imagine what they went through. And now the specter brought up by Josh Zeman, and he's not wrong of other women out there somewhere under the sand.

[Mike Gould]

Yeah, Nancy, no doubt about it. Unfortunately, though, Rex Uhman is not the only serial killer. This is a very unique area. It's I'm intimately familiar with. I patrolled the area for almost seven years with police dogs. I trained police dogs. By daytime, it's a beautiful recreational area. At night, it's a haunting, haunting, dark, desolate area and its proximity to JFK airport. Rex Uhman literally live 15 minute drive from here, from the locations where the bodies were. So it's a haunting place. There's no doubt there's other bodies out there. The bodies have been being dispersed out there since the 80s during the mafia gang wars. So it's just a question of actually locating. And of course, frankly, this is a very desolate area. It's. Finding bodies is like finding a needle in a haystack.

[Nancy Grace]

Okay, this is something I don't understand. You are a founding member of nypd, and I speak very highly of the nypd. Like every LE law enforcement agency, it's got its problems and its bad apples. But you are the pinnacle nypd. That's who all the other PDS look up to. Right? It's very hard for me to believe that a canine or a team of canines cannot find all the dead bodies. Cadaver dogs. That's what I'm talking about.

[Mike Gould]

100%.

[Joseph Scott Morgan]

This.

[Mike Gould]

This is what cracked this case. The Suffolk County Police Department cadaver dog found the first victim. Without that, there would be no DNA evidence. Without that, obviously there was great work by all the DNA invest, all of those things. But without the bodies, you have a very difficult case to prove. So dogs are considered in court as scientific instruments to overcome warrantless searches. So there's nothing like a dog to find odorless, microscopic skin cells that are dispersed. But again, this is a big area, Nancy. It's different terrain. There's sand, there's a lot of vegetation. So again, it's not a question of if other bodies will be found and I think the DA spoke to this. It's just a matter of when. It's nothing new to us New York that this has been. You go from high, congested, highly trafficked, illuminated areas. You drive 10 minutes, 15 minutes from Kennedy Airport or Rex Huberman's house and you it's creepy. It's creepy. I used to park my police car, turn the lights out and you could see five miles in either direction of any cars coming or going. So guess what? If the police can do that, the bad guys can do the exact same thing. There's no curves and there's a lot of places to sneak and hide. So yeah, it's a creepy, haunting place. And it's been that way for many, many years.

[Nancy Grace]

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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Mike Again, cadaver dogs, they don't care if it's daylight or nighttime. Their nose works the same way. So let me understand. It's very clear from what the Suffolk County District Attorney, Ray Tierney said that he believes there are other bodies on this beach. Why can't the cadaver dogs find them?

[Mike Gould]

They can. They have the capability of doing first of all, there's not a lot of cadaver dogs because there's not a great need for them. So there's not a lot of them, but they certainly could. But and there's volunteer organizations that train cadaver dogs all over the country. So yeah, it's just ripe and they are continuing searching. There was police activity out there the other night. I don't know specifically for what reason. So yeah, the search is on. It's never going to end. And as I said it's, it's nothing new as you can. As I said, Rex lived 15, 20 minutes. You drive over a bridge and you go from Long island to a desolate. You don't have to drive a body upstate New York. You don't have to drive two or three hours like in Goodfellas to dump a body upstate New York when you can literally drive 10 minutes from Queens, Brooklyn and you're in this. It's like an alternate universe out there. No lights, no stores, very little police activity. Police don't patrol there because there's nothing out there in the winter. By day again, it's a beautiful recreational area. By night, there's nothing out there. And it continues that way today. I was just down there the other night at one o' clock in the morning and it's eerie. There's nothing, there's no rescue workers. I mean, if you call 911, there's a 15 or 20 minute response time, minimally, because they got to go over bridges, three miles of bridges to get to the, this barren beach area control room.

[Nancy Grace]

I want to see the victims faces and I want to see them close up, not a distant shot of all of them in a group. I want to see their faces one by one, look at them. They begged for their lives. They begged to go back to their children. They promised they wouldn't tell, they promised they wouldn't call police. Instead, they were stripped, bound, tortured, raped, murdered, and their bodies buried along a lonely stretch of beach. And Rex Heuerman stands in court smirking. Why?

[Joseph Scott Morgan]

Why?

[Nancy Grace]

Because they died and he lives. Because he's now going to be treated like the teacher's pet by the FBI profilers. Yeah, that's right. There are going to be many, many interviews by the FBI profiling him this piece of crap. And I guarantee you one day he'll take part in his own documentary and there will be money made off of it. It's happening. Put money on it. Jo Scott Morgan, joining me, professor, forensics, Jacksonville State University, author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon. He is the star of a hit podcast, Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan. But for my purposes tonight, he is a death investigator, very experienced veteran death investigator with over 10,000 death scenes of all sorts under his belt. Over 10,000. I first met him when I was a prosecutor at inner city Atlanta and he was working for the medical examiner's office at that time. That's a long time ago, Joe Scott. And you haven't let up. You, like me, like Gould, like Zeeman, have walked the beach, do you concur with Gould's comments? Explain?

[Joseph Scott Morgan]

Absolutely. And let me tell you why. You know, obviously you can hear my voice. I'm from the south and, you know, we think about the rural areas down here. You get up into this region and you leave what they refer to as the city. When you leave the city and you're heading out, you know, as Mr. Gould had mentioned just a moment ago, yet there, this is rural, this is what they consider going to the country. And it's not. It's not an unfair description because it does go dark really, really quickly. And here's the thing. My good buddy, Sergeant Joe Jacqueline, he took me to the location where the Gilga bodies were actually found. And one of the things that I came away from, from that visit to that location was the fact that one side of the roadway, you've got this marshy area. It is prohibitive for anybody to go into there. You've got briars and brambles and everything else on that side and the other side, you can hear the waves crashing and you can't see your hand in front of your face out there at night. It would not surprise me at all if there were more he's saying at the beach. Tyranny is, I'm thinking probably along the sound side over there where you can quickly deposit the bodies in that location and nobody's going to be any the wiser out there. I think that probably when he did this, he was hoping for something maybe like title changes that are going to sweep the bodies out. It's an easy dump to do this. He can pull them out of this avalanche, which, by the way, they had covered down in South Carolina, and they would just be gone. They would vanish and. Right, right, he was to a certain degree, but that yet there they remained. And to Mr. Ghoul's comment, those dogs are heroes, you know, because they went out there, they took those dogs out there and they actually found these remains. Is it possible they could go out there and find more? Yeah, I think that there can, because this is an extensive area, Nancy. It would take so much manpower to get out there and cover every square inch of this area or every square mile. They haven't even scratched the surface yet. And you have to be purpose.

[Nancy Grace]

Hey, look, Joe Scott. Look, look, look, look. This is video obtained by abc7. Look at him. I just want the viewers to know what they're seeing. Joe Scott. There he is. And I know exactly where he is. Nobody needs to tell me he's leaving his office. See, he's got his messenger bag over his shoulder, he's leaving his office, which was a stone's throw to Penn Station, and there he would catch the pen. Been there many, many times. To imagine this demon walking amongst all the ladies, catching trains at Penn Station, going straight out to Long island to commit murders. There he goes. He truly is a demon walking among us. That is what the DA said. Sorry to interrupt. Joe Scott. Keep going. I just the viewers to know what they were seeing.

[Joseph Scott Morgan]

Yeah. And. And when I think about who else he could have victimized, how many more are there? I think there's a high probability that there are these bodies. But, Nancy, if we could just return to the victims specifically, just for a second, this allocation, let me just put it to you this way, is lacking. Okay. Because you know what we got out of him. And yeah, I mean, it confirms some things. We got him saying strangulation, strangulation, strangulation, strangulation. But there's no more detail there. I'm very disappointed that his feet were not held to the fire. You know, you had mentioned his torture chamber, which I think that this location was. Josh has talked about how these people, these poor victims were kept alive down there. And yet there's no more detail about what he did. I don't know that people fully appreciate the depth and breadth of how evil he is. He is demonic, in my opinion, with what he did to these poor souls. And we will never know that information. All I have to do, I look back at the template of the way Kansas handled BTK and we don't have that here. It's left wanting, to say the very least. And I think the families need to understand that. I think the courts need to understand that. But yet here he is. He's going to get three hots and a cot. And oh, by the way, yeah, the boys from the FBI are going to come down, they're going to sit with him and they're going to interview him extensively. Right. And he is going to hold a level of celebrity. And that is probably one of the most vomit inducing things I can think of relative to this monster. Nancy.

[Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney]

This defendant walked among us play acting as a normal suburban dad, when in reality, all along he was obsessively targeting innocent women for death. He identified these women, lured them into Nassau county, murdered them and left their bodies in Suffolk County. He thought that by killing them, he could silence them forever and get away with murder. But he was wrong. Because it was these victims, these women who refused to stay sleep island

[Nancy Grace]

in the last days, the Long island serial killer in court, snared, admitting yes, he is the Long island serial killer. But he's not the only one on the hot seat tonight. The question everyone keeps asking is how

[Josh Zieman]

could you not know.

[Nancy Grace]

The Gilgo 4 was one of America's longest serial killer cold cases? After 13 years, this bombshell drops Rex

[Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney]

Huberman, architect, father, husband.

[Nancy Grace]

He basically was the person that lived next door.

[Dean Graziosi]

He was a murderer, monster, living a double life.

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[Nancy Grace]

But my memory says this.

[Joseph Scott Morgan]

There's so much evidence against you, I don't even believe you. And you're my best friend. Convince me. Give me something. Did you do it?

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Rex Heuermann insists through his lawyer that he's innocent.

[Nancy Grace]

Is it possible that no family ever suspected that something was off about this guy? The most mysterious figure is Rex's wife. The investigator says to me, have you heard about the murders on Gilgo Beach? I've heard of them.

[Joseph Scott Morgan]

The idea that the wife didn't know anything is hard to believe.

[Nancy Grace]

Does everybody really believe everything they hear? Hello, how you doing? I'm doing great now that I've got you on the phone. How ironic that Asa Ellera, the wife of the Long island serial killer says, does everybody believe everything they hear? Woman, what were you deaf, dumb and blind? You couldn't see, you couldn't hear. You can speak of the evil happening in your basement often while you're at home. BS on it. BS on you, woman. That's from the Gilgo Beach Killer House of Secrets. Their official trailer. The family of Rex Heuerman getting a purported $1 million to participate in that special documentary. Blood money. Blood money. How do you think that makes the families of these dead women feel? These women kidnapped, tortured, raped, murdered. Their bodies sometimes dismembered and disposed of. How do they feel about his wife getting a cool million? It skeeves me out totally. I feel filthy and nauseous all at the same time just watching the trailer. Dave Mack. What?

[Dave Mack]

Nancy? It's one of those shocking things that just pushes you over the edge that Asa Ellera is the ex wife of Rex Uerman being featured and getting paid for this multi part documentary. Now, Nancy, they're adding adding new episodes to this, this show. The docu series is called, you know, the Gilgo Beach Killer House of Secrets. But now that the secrets are out, Asa Ellerup is going to be adding episodes. But Nancy claiming all along the family knew nothing. In court, Asa Ellerup is sitting behind Rex and she's seemingly shocked. She's sitting on the edge of the seat she's gripping the. The seat with her hand. You can see the knuckles. And it's like she's acting like she just can't believe what she's hearing. And there's a suggestion that she didn't believe any of it until he, you know, said he did it. But, Nancy, I'm with you. Like many. How can you live in this house? Which, by the way, when you look at the home that Rex Heuerman and his family lived in, his home from his childhood, it looks like the Munster's home compared to the other houses on the street. It looks like evil exists in this house. She's living there with this man. Well, you know, decades.

[Nancy Grace]

You know what, Dave Mack? If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck. So, yes, it is the home of the monsters, including Asa Ellerup and Rex Heuerman. This from our friends at ABC7. Joining us, in addition to Dave Mack, Josh Zieman, investigative journalist and director of the killing season, shining a new light on the Gilgo beach murders. Tell me about Asa Ellerup in court and what, if anything, you know about her documentary. Okay, that's total BS Documentary series, My rear end. What can you tell. Tell us about her show where she's getting a purported million dollars and now additional episodes. I mean, come on, Josh, don't you know, she wanted this thing to go to trial. So in between every break where the jurors got a Diet Coke or a cup of coffee, she could go out and cry and carry on with her histrionics for the cameras to add for her reality show, maybe. Maybe make another million dollars. Josh Zieman.

[Josh Zieman]

Look, I heard that she wasn't getting paid until the final episode aired. You know, it is a shock about it. I agree with you completely. Blood money. I will tell you this. I was in the courtroom, and right when Rex admitted to it, I looked back and I saw his daughter. And his daughter was. She was crushed. I feel bad for the daughter. I don't feel bad for the wife. I feel bad for the daughter, who I think is crushed that this man that she loved is now a terrifying serial killer. That's one thing I will tell you.

[Nancy Grace]

Okay, I get that. What I'm asking about is Asa Ellerup and her reality show. I don't care that she may not get all the money till the last episode is. From what I can tell, there may not ever be a last episode in our lifetime because they're still digging up bodies.

[Josh Zieman]

It's Great.

[Nancy Grace]

Thank you.

[Josh Zieman]

Know what? Look, I'll tell you something. You know what the lawyer said? The lawyer said when asked about it, the lawyer, her lawyer said, this is what America wants. And that's the real question. Do we want this or not?

[Nancy Grace]

My real question is, why don't they have the death penalty? But that's a whole nother can of worms. Yeah, what America wants is justice. But is that justice? Him smirking in court. And you and I were talking earlier with Joe Scott Morgan about him being treated like the little darling, the teacher's pet, the bear behind the cage, getting fed filet mignon. Nobody wants to get that close to him, but they will feed him with a long handle spoon. That said, he's going to be studied and questioned. The FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit is going to have a field day with him. He may get to travel to them. I mean, I guarantee you, Josh, that there will be a day like Bryan Kohberger that he will take part in some sort of documentary. And he won't make any money, but there will be a way for money to be funneled to him through his wife, through his family. I don't know how, but he will find a way. He led quite the dual life, did he not?

[Josh Zieman]

Look, this was a guy who created these two separate Personas. That of a father, a commuter working in New York City, and that of a monster. And I think that was really important to them to create these dual personalities, one allowing him to work on the other. He was a hero to his family, theoretically, so that he could kill at night. It was terrifying.

[Nancy Grace]

This is Lay interview with Rex Heuerman regarding the Department of Buildings. He's a consultant with them at the time from bonjour realty on YouTube. Josh, listen to this. Brace yourself. You know this trick. Peacock insists that the family is not getting paid for participation. Not one red penny. But they are paying them licensing fees. What a ton of crap. Wait, correction. What a ton of stinking, steaming crap paid for a licensing fee. That means. Look, we can't say we're paying you for your interviews and for all of your BS that you're feeding us with a silver spoon and expecting us to swallow. But we will pay the million dollars for those pictures. That's bs. That gives them a way to say we're not paying for these interviews, but they are. They're paying for the pictures. Explain that whole bogus line.

[Josh Zieman]

It's something we do all the time in documentary filmmaking. We can't pay them. You know, Son of Sam laws, things like that. So we say, look, we'll pay you for exclusive pictures, video access. So basically, we're getting a million dollars for a picture that she's handing over.

[Dave Mack]

It's.

[Josh Zieman]

Yeah, it's a way that we get around it so that we don't get Son of Sam laws. And it's. It's gross. And you're absolutely right.

[Nancy Grace]

You know Karen Stark joining me, forensic psychologist. She's a renowned TV and radio trauma expert, consultant. She's@karen stark.com. that's Karen with a C. Karen. Just watching that trailer made me feel nauseous. I mean, and then her to ask the question, the rhetorical question, do people believe everything they hear? Woman, you're the one that plugged your ears, closed your eyes, and taped over your mouth while your husband was raping and murdering people in your basement. Please.

[Karen Stark]

And. And to think that with that kind of an explanation, do you believe everything that she's actually getting paid now that she has so called awareness and continuing to make that documentary. But what I wanted to say about her and about this ex wife and serial killers in general is that they tend to pick women like this. They pick women who they know will ignore red flags, will not pay attention to all the little details that everyone else we know would pay attention to that basement, the horrors that were there, all the little suspicions. So I think that that's an important thing to notice, that this really fits a pattern of what serial killers do. They want this kind of woman.

[Nancy Grace]

Hey, Karen.

[Karen Stark]

I also.

[Nancy Grace]

Yes, Karen. Karen. You know my husband David very well. Okay?

[Josh Zieman]

I do.

[Nancy Grace]

Occasionally he will break down and make the bed up in the morning, and we went to go see Van Gogh's sunflower exhibit. Go with me on this. I'm going somewhere. And there's a pillow of a sunflower from a Van Gogh painting. And unless you really look at it, you can't tell which way is what. But I can tell because the vase is at the bottom and there's a little tag on the right side of the pillow. When I walk through going back and forth, doing laundry or whatever I'm doing, I noticed that the pillow is upside down, and I fix it. Okay, so if I notice the Van Gogh pillow is upside down, A, I'm grateful he made the bed up, but B, I fix it. You want to tell me Asa Eller never noticed anything in the basement where women were stripped, raped, tortured and murdered? No way.

[Karen Stark]

I'm not saying she didn't notice it, Nancy. The important thing that I'm pointing out is that she's the kind of person who would ignore what she notices, that she's able to find a way inside of her mind to absolutely put it aside and say in some way without saying to you, but to herself, I'm not going to pay attention to this in order to keep the life that she has. And there's no doubt in my mind, just like you, that there were hints, there were red flags all the time, but this is somebody who would not pay attention to them. And that happens a lot with the kind of women that serial killers pick. Think Ted Bundy, think Dennis Raider. They pick women who live with them and somehow can't see what everyone else can see. In addition to which, look at their personalities. They are able to switch. It's like turning on a light, right? They could switch between the life that they're living with their family, with the community, and turn into these demonic killers that torture and rape. They're able to do that. People can't do that, but serial killers can.

[Sex Worker Witness]

The fourth witness, she was a sex worker for many years. She said that she would service Rex Uberman over 20 times and that he would. He was a serial user of sex workers. He would sometimes have them come two at a time to his house and his wife was home upstairs and in one instance got very angry at one of the sex workers because the wife believed that the worker had stolen an iron from, you know, for ironing clothes and had had it in the car with the driver. So the driver had to get out. Everybody had to search the car. There was no iron, but. But the wife knew about it and knew about obviously what was going on in order for that to happen.

[Joseph Scott Morgan]

You know, they're saying specifically that there's evidence of torture that's different than post mortem mutilation. Nancy.

[Karen Stark]

And it's clear how much he was obsessed with his own doing what he did following the brutal murders.

[Nancy Grace]

You can never erase anything on your computer. Snared in court. Long island serial killer Rex Heuerman pleads guilty to multiple murders. But I'm not done with you yet. Asa Ellerup, the wife, a million dollars at least for a reality show and now a lawsuit. Dave Mack, who is suing Ellerup Benjamin Torres.

[Dave Mack]

He is the 32 year old son of victim Valerie Mack. He is naming Rex Heuermann, obviously. But in this million dollar lawsuit, he names Asa Ellerup and daughter Victoria Heuerman as defendants. Torres alleges that he was deprived of his mother's care and protection, claims Mac was tortured before her death. And the suit seeks damages and Targets the profits allegedly earned by Eller up in Victoria Heuerman from the Peacock documentary that we've been talking about, saying that Heuerman's life being shown like this is a callous disregard for the victim's families.

[Nancy Grace]

You know, I'm just imagining what the victims families have gone through. They went for years thinking maybe their mothers just left them, abandoned them. How would you like to grow up thinking that mom just left. I don't know where she is. She didn't love me enough to stay with me or even stay in touch with me. I grew up without a mother. And then they find out for all those years that they blame their mom, that their mom had been tortured and raped and murdered and their remains buried on a desolate beach. Just growing up in itself has all sorts of trauma and issues. Pile that on top. I don't know how these people even get out of bed in the morning. To Joseph Scott Morgan, explain what was done to these victims. And you know what? When we show their faces, Joe Scott. It's easy to go, oh, there's a Long island serial killer victims. I would have to make jurors. And I didn't like it any more than they did. Make them confront what really happened to these ladies, what they endured before their deaths, what happened to them. Joe Scott.

[Joseph Scott Morgan]

The worst possible torture that you can imagine. Can we reflect back just for a second to think about this list? Do you remember the list, Nancy? This kind of assignment of task that he had created? Nancy, there's one part in this list that he had created where it says, by the by, don't, don't forget to remove the hands and the head and to wash the bodies. Just, let's just meditate on that, just for a second of how dark this whole thing is. And if it happened once, it happened multiple times. And that's, that's in death. Lord only knows what had happened in life down in, in that dark, dark space as he is torturing these poor victims. And here's the, here's the real shame. Just like Ted Bundy, we will hear his name over and over and over and over again. Guess what? Guess what. There are very few people that can go down the list of Ted Bundy's victims and name them. I submit to you that the names of these victims will be forgotten. And I hate to say that it's very callous, but his name will trump everything else. He'll be mentioned over and over and over again. And people need to remember this. This is why when I think about the Allocution, why he should be compelled to talk about what These are individuals, they had lives, they had families. And the torture that they were subjected to is stuff that you can't even imagine in your wildest dreams. It's stuff that you think about war crimes. People that commit war crimes didn't do stuff like this. You know, one thing that I reflectively think back to in this list, there's that one point where he actually uses the term hardpoint. And that really stuck with me. And the hard point was a location commonly where you secure something, like for instance, an eye hook in the ceiling where you can tie somebody up, you can hang them almost like a piece of beef. Or if you're field dressing a deer and talking about the context of that, you know, what's your purpose for doing that, Rex? You know, why would you need a hardpoint? I know he's an architect. He probably uses that term from the descriptor of building something out. But that's not what he used that for, Nancy. He used that to secure these individuals so he could work out these sick fantasies. And, you know, they're paying the price. They're paying the price to satiate these evil desires that he has. And they are not going to be memorialized. I am truly hoping. I'm so glad you brought up this gentleman who is suing, because maybe there will be relief in civil court where they will have to talk about this stuff. They will have to talk about what happened in her domicile that she was living in with her kids. This was all going on under her nose in that basement. She inhabited the space. Let's hear it. You know, let the hide come with a hair. And let's hear what they have to say about this and what went on in that house. You're not going to get it in civil court. I mean, in criminal court, because he's not. He's not going to be forced to testify at this point. But in the civil court, maybe these families will get some relief and they will be able to see what he had done. And you can parade all of the experts across the stand in civil court. You can get transcripts, you can do depositions. And they're going to talk about it. And I hope. I hope they go forward with it. I hope every family member out there that suffered at his hands will file suit. And we're going to find out what actually happened down there in that basement

[Nancy Grace]

and recall, Joe Scott, that Asa Ellerup's hair was actually found on Valerie Mac's body, which opens Up a whole nother can of worms. I'd like to go back to what the control room was showing while you were talking. Joe Scott. I guess in your world. As do I. I make lists all the time so I can't forget what all I have to do. Don't hunt too long in one area because you'll be seen. Don't charge for your gas. Check for video cameras in the pickup area. The next time you kidnap your victim, hit the victim harder. Make it easier to take them down. A hit to the face or the neck next time. Which means he didn't hit the victim in the right place for him the first time and she fought back. You need more sleep before the murders. You need to control the noise and more playtime. In other words, torture. Hang drop cloths from the ceiling with pushpins, not tape. Because the drop cloths become loose during the rapes and the torture. Use heavy rope for the neck. Light rope broke under the stress of being tightened. Now that son and all the victims families have to think about how tightly ropes were cinched around their mother's neck. Props, toys, wood items. Wood items for what? Destroy books, computer files, anything that touched T1, I guess the victim. Dispose of plastic bags. Remove marks from the torture. What does that mean? Would he cut out portions of their skin? Remove head and hands?

[Joseph Scott Morgan]

Yeah, you're talking about excision there, Nancy. Excision is. Say for instance, you have a sharp instrument and you have an insult to the skin. For instance, you have a mark, an abrasion, a contusion, whatever it is. He's talking about excising that area. Actually cutting out.

[Nancy Grace]

Cutting the tattoo from the skin. That's what Joe Scott is saying, and he's right. Now, here are his problems to the panel. DNA, that's a problem. Tire marks. For him, that's a problem. Blood stains, fingerprints, plastic bag. He had cat litter to get rid of the smell, this guy. Look at this. All the supplies, booties, acid. Lie. A police scanner, cutting tools, hair nets, burn can, drain cleaner, tarps, electric clips, large electric clips. For what? Joe Scott. To put on the victim's bodies and electrocute them as torture. Why would he need electric clips?

[Joseph Scott Morgan]

Yeah, to send voltage to their bodies? Because he is experiencing this. He wants to see the pain. He wants to see the resistance. He wants to see their reaction to the terror that he's inflicting upon them. They know that something horrible is coming. That horror being their end. But what's happening before they get to that death, which probably at the end of the day, many of them were probably begging for Nancy at that point. I think the big question is we know these eight victims that he has admitted to. I want to know how many more women were brought down there and subjected to the same torture in this environment. You know, Lord only knows. I you know, one of the things I think about is the DNA recovery down there in that area. I really wonder how many unknown bits of DNA may have been recovered. What was the opportunity? How much had it degraded? There's so many unanswered questions.

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[Nancy Grace]

Crime stories with Nancy Grace. I noticed on the list. To Josh Zieman joining us, director of the Killing Season, an entire docu series that profiled and shed light on the Long island serial killings. I noticed on his list he wanted more photo film, his words. So obviously he took pictures during the torture or after.

[Mike Gould]

Yeah.

[Josh Zieman]

In fact, Nancy, there are believed to be 100,000 pictures that the district attorney has had to go through that the FBI helped to even organize. 100,000. What's amazing is this guy took all these precautions to try not to get caught. Yet still this was all sitting on his computer. This document, this planning document. It's called the HK Planning Document. Hunt and Kill Planning Document. It was sitting in this edge of. In this bytes of his computer that he could not erase. So despite all these things that he had done, it was still there. And thank God they were able to get this. He was actually. You talk about this house looking so ramshackle. He's a hoarder. He. He hoarded all these old items, old Palm Pilots. There were Palm pilots that they found that basically gave the dates of what he was doing and going that actually mentioned his wife being away at times. And he would go and find a victim. So he Hoarded everything, including all these pieces of evidence. He also had the most shocking thing is he had newspaper articles, 30 year old newspaper articles in his bedroom, in his office, in his basement of all his crimes. So for some guy who's such an architect and such a great planner, he still kept all these mementos that basically nailed him to a wall for these killings.

[Nancy Grace]

To Mike Gould, special guest, former Nassau county lieutenant, founding member of the NYPD K9 unit. Led multiple investigations into serial killers, including this case. Mike, after all your work, all your time, literally blood, sweat and tears, how does it make you feel that this guy, he might be sentenced consecutively, one after the next after the next, but bottom line, he gets one life sentence for everything he did.

[Mike Gould]

Yeah, Nancy, it's sickening. This is a true animal, monster, whatever you want to call it. But what's most disturbing, he could be at your next dinner party. He was an architect, he was very well respected in the community. You know what I think about? As I said, I patrolled this area Parkway from 1992 to 1999, when frankly, these bodies were disposed of. But here's the sad reality. I could have pulled him over. He has a license, registration, and he could have had a body in his trunk. He's a duck hunter, he's a member of the community. I would have probably let him go. There would be no reason for me to suspect because sociopaths are very manipulative. As I said he could. He's just somebody's next door neighbor he could be at. So that's what's the most troubling to me is you never know the evil that lurks in anybody's mind, frankly. So yeah, I could have stopped him, checked his license, registration. I could have said, what are you doing down here at 2 o' clock in the morning? You could have said, I'm going duck on, I'm doing this. And I would have let him go. And that's the facts of life. And there could have been a mutilated body in his trunk.

[Nancy Grace]

Mike Gould, a special guest tonight. He worked the Long island serial killer case. Mike, what you said is chilling, eerie, and I know it to be true. I remember one serial killer I prosecuted was a chef and everybody loved him. He was a serial killer. So what you're saying, it's. And I would not, in front of the jury, I would look over at him and just try to take it in. And it's very hard to evaluate, to understand, to reconcile that that guy sitting there, a gorgeous suit, flanked by lawyers, is A cold blooded killer. And when I think of what Josh Zieman just said, about over 100,000 photos of these dead women during torture, during rapes, and their families have to live with that the rest of their lives. I mean, I feel, I don't know, robbed by this guilty plea and I don't know why.

[Mike Gould]

Yeah, so this is a heinous crime. We can't, you can't fathom insanity. How can a normal functioning person. As I said, this could be anyone. Nobody's immune to this. This could be a priest, it could be any member of your community, a family member. They're devious and they live double lives. If you look at all his notes, those are the notes of an architect.

[Joseph Scott Morgan]

Right.

[Mike Gould]

Architects are very meticulous and they have to learn from their last architectural drawings. So when you look at that, this is a checklist, police scanners. He had probably thought about how, what he was going to say if somebody like myself pulled him over in the middle of night on Ocean Parkway. I'm sure he had a very well reasoned excuse. So this is, this is a sadistic maniac and we can scratch our heads from now to eternity trying to figure out what, how a sociopath thinks, how they get some type of enjoyment from mutilating people. It's not on our radar screen. It's certainly not on my radar screen. So, yeah, I. Fortunately for me, I've been doing this stuff so long, I have a way of just isolating those thoughts and the emotions. I'm kind of emotionally detached from a lot of this, so a lot of it I frankly don't even listen to as. As. I just kind of avoid it, stick with the facts of the case. But yeah, he's a monster, period.

[Nancy Grace]

Karen Stark, what advice, what words of consolation or hope can you give the victims families?

[Karen Stark]

Well, the best you could do in a case like this, Nancy, is to actually talk to them, advise them to get help, to keep talking it out because it really makes a difference. And it's really hard because they're aware of the torture, just like you. Right. They can't fathom it. And they can put themselves in the place of the victim, which is terrible to imagine what they went through. And here he does this because he gets a charge out of it. That smirk is showing you how much he enjoys this. And there is no doubt in my mind that he pleaded guilty because he didn't want to go over the details. He has very specific details that he wants to keep to himself and maybe share with the FBI so he can get the fame that he's been looking for. But this is a monster. And so what do you say to the families except be with each other? Keep talking about it. You must go on with your lives for the sake of the victims.

[Nancy Grace]

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