Gilgo Beach Killer’s Ex-Wife Reacts After Maximum Sentence in 8-Murder Case: “He Got What He Deserved”

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Ellerup also drew attention in the latest episode of Peacock’s docuseries “The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets,” where she disclosed that she now sleeps in the room where her ex-husband tortured and killed seven of the eight victims.

In the episode, she says, “The brutal truth is that Rex Heuermann said he dismembered the bodies in this room. That is the brutal truth. OK. Now. There’s me. I’m in this room. And I’m here because I do feel spiritual. I am trying to say spiritually, in my own way, that I am really sorry for what these victims went through.”

Judge Timothy Mazzei ripped into the hulking Heuermann at sentencing Wednesday, calling him a “coward” and “small man” for the “despicable” murders of eight women, all around 100 pounds and 5 feet tall.

“Mr. Heuermann, as Mr. Tierney said, I know that you’re sorry you got caught. I assume that you’re sorry for what you’ve done to your wife and children. Are you a little bit sorry for what you did to these poor, innocent women?” Mazzei asked. “Eight women that you strangled to death — at least eight, that we know of. Are you at least a little bit sorry for that? Yes?”

“Yes, I am,” Heuermann responded.

“You know what, you’ve been described as a very big man, but you’re a disgusting and despicable small man, if you’re a man at all,” an audibly emotional Mazzei replied. “And you’re a coward.”

He sentenced Heuermann to three consecutive terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole, to be followed by four consecutive terms of 25 years to life.

After dismissing three lesser charges, Mazzei ordered the bailiffs to “Get him out of here.”

Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said afterward that local authorities expected to be rid of Heuermann before the end of the week. He was gone the following morning.

Ellerup filed for divorce shortly after Heuermann’s arrest outside his Manhattan office on July 13, 2023. Police soon descended on the family’s Massapequa Park home, the only ramshackle house in an otherwise upscale suburban neighborhood about 35 miles east of New York City.

A general view of Gilgo Beach, New York, on July 19, 2023. The beach is on a barrier island, with the Atlantic Ocean to the south and a marsh where the Gilgo Beach serial killer hid most of his victims’ remains to the north. (Mega for News Agency)

Since his 2023 arrest, Heuermann was charged with the murders of seven women, and he confessed to killing an eighth during a change-of-plea hearing on April 8.

Tierney has declined to speculate about whether there are more victims, saying what he thinks “doesn’t matter” — and that if investigators obtain more evidence, it would be presented to a grand jury in pursuit of a new indictment.