An attorney for the families of two Gilgo Beach victims has questioned whether serial killer Rex Heuerman’s wife may have been in the city longer than investigators think, saying she may have been in the city for longer than investigators thought, including during one of the murders. It is possible that there was also a possibility that it existed.
Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said Heuerman’s estranged wife, Asa Ellerup, was out at the time of each murder, but his attorney, John Ray, said Tuesday night that questioned that conclusion at an event held at St. John’s University.
Ray, who represents the families of Shanann Gilbert and Jessica Taylor, claims he spoke with the manager of an Atlantic City hotel who said Ellerup and her children were more likely than investigators believe. He also said he arrived at the scene late. Murder case.
Ellerup’s attorney, Bob Macedonio, denied Ray’s claims. speak to fox news If Tierney were wrong about Ellerp, the entire case against Heuerman would fall apart.
“When do you do that in advance of a bail application in the course of a criminal investigation?” he said. “It’s very, very rare. … If he’s wrong, it casts his entire case beyond reasonable doubt.”
A former federal prosecutor with no connection to the case told Fox that it makes no sense for the DA’s office to make claims that he is not convinced of.
“If the DA’s statement is incorrect, it would be a potential problem,” Neema Rahmani told the outlet. “But why would the DA’s office assert something they are not sure about?”
Heuerman, 60, is charged with murder in the 2010 murder of the Gilgo Four, a sex worker whose body was found on Gilgo Beach.
The bodies of Amber Lynn Costello, 27, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Maureen Brainard Burns, 25, and Megan Waterman, 22, were found between December 2010 and 2011. Within days of April 2019, she was found wrapped in burlap on a sandy beach.
Heuerman, a New York City architect and married father of two, was arrested in July in connection with a notorious case in which DNA found on an abandoned pizza linked him to three women. It was done.
His arrest came after former New York City Police Chief Rodney Harrison, then the Suffolk County police chief, reopened the case in January 2022.
Harrison formed the Gilgo Beach Murder Task Force in February 2022 and quickly identified Heuerman as a suspect.
Heuerman has been held without bail since his arrest.
