Gilgo Beach serial killer's ex-wife says he 'got what he deserved' after he gets max sentence for 8 murders

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — Asa Ellerup, the ex-wife of convicted Long Island serial slayer Rex Heuermann, said done her lawyer Friday that the 62-year-old designer "got what helium deserved" erstwhile a New York justice deed him with the maximum imaginable condemnation this week for a drawstring of murders betwixt 1993 and 2010.

"She believes the condemnation is due for his crimes, and evidently helium got what helium deserved," said Ellerup's attorney, Bob Macedonio. "You can’t termination 8 people. She’d ne'er condone immoderate of that."

Heuermann has not yet been successful interaction with his ex-wife oregon children since being transferred retired of the Suffolk County Jail Thursday, Macedonio said. He was being processed astatine Green Haven Correctional Facility successful Stormville, New York, but it was not instantly wide wherever helium volition service his sentence.

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Gilgo serial slayer Rex Heuermann appears wrong a courtroom for sentencing astatine Suffolk County Court successful Riverhead, N.Y., connected June 16, 2026. (James Carbone/Newsday)

Ellerup infamously revealed that she present sleeps successful the country wherever her ex tortured and killed 7 of the 8 victims successful the latest occurrence of "The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets" docuseries connected Peacock.

"The brutal information is that Rex Heuermann said helium dismembered the bodies successful this room," she says successful the episode. "That is the brutal truth. OK. Now. There's me. I'm successful this room. And I'm present due to the fact that I bash consciousness spiritual. I americium trying to accidental spiritually, successful my ain way, that I americium truly atrocious for what these victims went through."

Judge Timothy Mazzei ripped into the hulking Heuermann astatine sentencing Wednesday, calling him a "coward" and "small man" for the "despicable" murders of 8 women, each astir 100 pounds and 5 feet tall.

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"Mr. Heuermann, arsenic Mr. Tierney said, I cognize that you're atrocious you got caught. I presume that you're atrocious for what you've done to your woman and children. Are you a small spot atrocious for what you did to these poor, guiltless women?" Mazzei asked. "Eight women that you strangled to decease — astatine slightest eight, that we cognize of. Are you astatine slightest a small spot atrocious for that? Yes?"

Rex Heuermann's victims: Sandra Costilla, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Amber Costello, Valerie Mack, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Jessica Taylor and Karen Vergata. (Insets: Suffolk County Police Department, Background: Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)

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"Yes, I am," Heuermann responded.

"You cognize what, you've been described arsenic a precise large man, but you're a disgusting and despicable tiny man, if you're a antheral astatine all," an audibly affectional Mazzei replied. "And you're a coward."

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Asa Ellerup attends a property league astatine the Suffolk County Courthouse successful Riverhead, N.Y., connected Jan. 16, 2024. (Robert Miller/Fox News Digital)

He sentenced Heuermann to 3 consecutive presumption of beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole, to beryllium followed by 4 consecutive presumption of 25 years to life.

After dismissing 3 lesser charges, Mazzei ordered the bailiffs to "Get him retired of here."

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Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said afterward that section authorities expected to beryllium escaped of Heuermann earlier the extremity of the week. He was gone the pursuing morning.

Attorney Bob Macedonio speaks to the media during a property league astatine the Suffolk County Courthouse successful Riverhead, N.Y., connected Jan. 16, 2024. Macedonio represents Asa Ellerup, the ex-wife of convicted serial slayer Rex Heuermann. (Robert Miller for Fox News Digital)

Ellerup filed for divorcement soon aft Heuermann's apprehension extracurricular his Manhattan bureau connected July 13, 2023. Police soon descended connected the family's Massapequa Park home, the lone ramshackle location successful an different upscale suburban vicinity astir 35 miles eastbound of New York City.

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A wide presumption of Gilgo Beach, New York, connected July 19, 2023. The formation is connected a obstruction island, with the Atlantic Ocean to the southbound and a marsh wherever the Gilgo Beach serial slayer hid astir of his victims' remains to the north. (Mega for Fox News Digital)

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Since his 2023 arrest, Heuermann was charged with the murders of 7 women, and helium confessed to sidesplitting an eighth during a change-of-plea proceeding connected April 8.

Tierney has declined to speculate astir whether determination are much victims, saying what helium thinks "doesn't matter" — and that if investigators get much evidence, it would beryllium presented to a expansive assemblage successful pursuit of a caller indictment.