Overview
- Heuermann’s ex-wife, Asa Ellerup, says in a new Peacock teaser that he told her he killed eight women and that seven died in a basement room of their Massapequa Park house.
- Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty on April 8 to seven murders and admitted an eighth, and he is due to receive life without parole at a June 17 sentencing.
- Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr. says fellow serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson has mailed Heuermann more than 10 letters, and jail rules bar staff from reading their contents.
- Investigators tied Heuermann to the victims using DNA from a discarded pizza crust along with burner-phone and vehicle evidence, and media reports say a basement vault held nearly 300 weapons.
- Most victims were sex workers whose remains were found at Gilgo Beach and other Long Island sites, and the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit is interviewing Heuermann under his plea agreement.