Rex Heuermann: Loving Dad and Gilgo Beach Serial Killer
About this episode
The episode explores the complex relationship between Victoria Heuermann and her father, Rex Heuermann, a confessed serial killer, through a psychological lens.
He's a loving dad and a serial killer. Victoria Heuermann said those words after sitting across from her father in a jailhouse room and hearing him confess to murdering eight women — including at least seven inside the home where she grew up. She didn't say it with sarcasm. She didn't say it with rage. She said it like someone trying to hold two truths that shouldn't be able to exist inside the same person — because for Victoria, they have to. The Rex she knew coached her through life. Took care of the family. Was the person she called when she needed something. That Rex was real to her. The Rex who strangled women and dismembered them in the basement while she played video games ten feet away — that Rex is also real. And she has to live with both of them for the rest of her life. The Peacock documentary didn't just show Victoria accepting her father's guilt. It showed the psychological cost of that acceptance. Depression. Anger. A self-worth that's been destroyed. And a question that keeps surfacing — if my father is a monster, what does that make me? Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me to analyze Victoria Heuermann's psychological landscape — whether holding both versions of…
People in this episode
Host: Hidden Killers Podcast
Guests: Victoria Heuermann, Shavaun Scott
Topics covered
- psychological analysis
- family dynamics
- true crime
- grief process
- identity reconstruction
Keywords
- Rex Heuermann
- Victoria Heuermann
- serial killer
- psychological analysis
- grief
- identity
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Organizations: Peacock
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