Rex Heuermann's Daughter Lived Feet From Gilgo Beach Kill Room
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The episode explores Victoria Heuermann's experience growing up as the daughter of a serial killer and her journey towards forgiveness.
Ten feet. That's the distance between where Victoria Heuermann sat as a child watching television and playing video games, and the room where her father strangled, murdered, and dismembered women over the course of nearly two decades. Ten feet between a normal childhood and a crime scene. She didn't know it then. She knows it now. And she went back to that house, walked into that basement room, lit sage, and tried to cleanse the space where Rex Heuermann carried out the worst acts imaginable — acts she now has to reconcile with every memory she has of growing up in that home. The Peacock documentary captured Victoria Heuermann in a way that no true crime series has ever captured the child of a serial killer. Raw. Unfiltered. Cycling between anger and grief and a kind of eerie composure that comes from spending two years mentally preparing for a truth you already suspected but couldn't say out loud. She listed her ages against each murder. She was three, six, ten, twelve, thirteen. She mapped her childhood milestones against her father's kill timeline. And then she forgave him. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me to go deep on Victoria Heuermann's psychological experience — the…
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