Gilgo Beach Serial Killer's Ex-wife Relives Slayings Every Night, Sleeping In 'kill Room'

The erstwhile woman of Gilgo Beach serial slayer Rex Heuermann still lives successful nan aforesaid location wherever he murdered 7 women — and moreover sleeps successful nan “kill room,” perpetually reliving nan victims’ horrific last moments, she told nan makers of a Peacock documentary series.

In nan last section of “The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets” — which airs Thursday — Asa Ellerup revealed she’s redone their Long Island basement wherever she said he told her he methodically murdered and dismembered victims earlier dumping their remains on a adjacent beach.

The documentary's makers showed Ellerup stepping down nan Massapequa Park basemen's stairs arsenic words connected nan surface pass viewers that she had been sleeping location for astir a period anterior to Heuermann pleading blameworthy to nan murders April 8.

Asa Ellerup and Victoria Heuermann successful "The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets."Peacock / Peacock

“This full basement looks very different, it’s been wholly gutted and redone, caller floor, caller walls, caller moldings, caller doors,” Ellerup said successful section 4 of nan series. (Peacock is owned by NBCUniversal, nan genitor institution of NBC News.)

Then an off-camera sound asked Ellerup: “What do you want group to cognize (about) why you moved into nan basement, into nan termination room, into nan room wherever these heinous things happened?”

“The sadistic truth is that Rex Heuermann said he dismembered nan bodies successful this room. That is nan sadistic truth, OK?” Ellerup said.

“Now there’s me, I’m successful this room and I’m present because I do consciousness spiritual. I americium trying to opportunity spiritually, successful my ain way, that I americium really sorry for what these victims went through.”

Victoria Heuermann, Asa Ellerup successful "The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets."Peacock / Peacock

Ellerup said nan horrors of Heuermann’s reign of panic proceed to predominate her waking and sleeping hours.

“I americium haunted by dreams each night,” she said. “It will ne'er spell away. It will travel maine for nan remainder of my life.”

Heuermann has admitted to sidesplitting 8 women whose remains were recovered on Long Island’s Gilgo Beach.

As a information of pleading guilty, he was allowed to meet one-on-one pinch his erstwhile woman and their daughter, Victoria Heuermann, to confess to them first earlier doing it successful court. The brace divided aft he was arrested successful July 2023.

The women said successful nan documentary that they pressed nan slayer to explicate his motives but he didn’t explicitly spell retired what pushed him to perpetrate these unspeakable acts.

“He said that his demons sewage to him,” Victoria Heuermann said.

She said that she asked her begetter if he ever stopped to see that his victims were someone’s beloved family personnel and that he responded that nan women he killed weren’t really group successful his mind.

“I’m like, well, did you spot them arsenic somebody’s daughter?” Victoria Heuermann said she asked. “He told maine he didn’t moreover spot them arsenic human.”

Heuermann maintained a strict intelligence obstruction betwixt his victims and his family.

“They were wholly kept successful abstracted worlds (to Huermann) and he ne'er fto nan 2 cross,” Victoria Heuermann said.

“So I’m like, OK, he’s a loving dada and a serial killer: How did he negociate that nan 2 ne'er crossed? Seven women person been murdered successful this house. It’s difficult to stomach,” she said.

The hulking, 6-foot-4, 250-pound Heuermann targeted activity workers who were nary taller than 5-foot-5, authorities said.

Heuermann has admitted to killing Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, and Amber Lynn Costello, 27, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, Jessica Taylor, 20, Sandra Costilla, 28, and Valerie Mack, 24, and Karen Vergata, 34,

"The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets."Peacock

Only 1 of nan women whom he killed successful his car was a spontaneous slaying, Heuermann said. The remainder of nan killings were each planned, nan victims slain inside nan family’s home, astir successful nan basement, erstwhile nan remainder of nan family was not home, Heuermann said.

He’s group to beryllium sentenced to life without nan anticipation of parole June 17.

Heuermann’s defense lawyer could not beryllium instantly reached for remark Wednesday.