July 19, 2023 6:55pm EDT
Rex Heuermann's wife pictured for first time as she files for divorce from Gilgo Beach serial slaying suspect
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Asa Ellerup filed for divorce from husband Rex Heuermann on Wednesday, her lawyer tells Fox News Digital
By Michael Ruiz | Fox News
MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. — Asa Ellerup, the wife of suspected Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann, was pictured for the first time Wednesday, the same day she filed for divorce and less than a week after New York police arrested her husband on a half-dozen cold case murder charges.
Her Islip-based lawyer Bob Macedonio told Fox News Digital that they had filed a summons and complaint for divorce as he entered the Suffolk County Jail in Yaphank — where Heuermann is being held on suspicion that he killed three women and hid their bodies in the brush at Gilgo Beach, about 45 miles east of New York City.
"This is all still a whirlwind," Macedonio said. "Her and her children's lives have been completely turned upside-down."
Just over an hour after Suffolk County police arrested Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect, on Thursday near his office on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, authorities arrived at the family home in Massapequa Park and informed his wife and adult children of the accusations, Macedonio said.
Then they seized the family's passports, computers, phones and iPads, Macedonio said.
"They were home and the cops came in, and they were completely blindsided, and they told them what was going on," he said.
Police have kept possession of the house for almost a week, roping off the block as investigators continued to process the scene — where they recovered hundreds of guns and other evidence, including a portrait of a battered woman. They also searched Heuermann's property in South Carolina and seized two Chevrolet Avalanche pickup trucks — the same make identified as a suspect vehicle in the disappearance of one of the Gilgo victims.
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