Gilgo Beach suspect Rex Heuermann’s estranged wife says her “children cry themselves to sleep” in new statement ahead of court appearance

NEW YORK — The estranged spouse of suspected Gilgo Seaside serial killer Rex Heuermann is talking out after investigators spent days looking their Massapequa Park dwelling.

It comes as Heuermann is ready to look at a 2 p.m. convention listening to, the place the courtroom is predicted to go over proof and speak with witnesses. 

Heuermann’s estranged spouse, 59-year-old Asa Ellerup, says their household is heartbroken. 

Ellerup shared an announcement with the New York Submit, saying since studying of her husband’s arrest, she filed for divorce. 

“My youngsters cry themselves to sleep. I imply, they are not youngsters. They’re grown adults, however they’re my youngsters. And my son has developmental disabilities, and he cried himself to sleep,” she mentioned within the assertion. “He is so distraught and would not perceive. And as a mom, I’ve no solutions for him.” 

She additionally shared images from inside their Massapequa Park dwelling after investigators spent 12 days looking for proof. 

She mentioned the household needed to dig via rubble simply to discover a chair.   

“I wakened in the midst of the night time, shivering,” she mentioned within the assertion.

She added her daughter, Victoria, has expressed feelings of feeling “not human” within the wake of the mess left behind. Their lawyer chimed in, saying, “She meant what they’ve accomplished to them and the household shouldn’t be even human. They have been simply full animals, they handled them like animals.”  

Heuerman is charged with killing three girls and the prime suspect in a fourth homicide.

Nonetheless, police mentioned this week they consider he isn’t linked to the unsolved deaths of 4 intercourse staff in Atlantic Metropolis. The our bodies of these girls have been discovered shut collectively in a drainage ditch behind a demolished motel.