About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of Asa Ellerup's presence in court as Rex Heuermann admits to multiple murders and the subsequent wrongful death lawsuit filed against them.

Rex Heuermann said it himself. In a packed courtroom, he admitted to strangling eight women over seventeen years. He confirmed the murders. He confirmed the dismemberment. He showed no emotion. And Asa Ellerup was sitting in the back of the room while he did it. For years, she said she did not believe it. She called him her savior. She dismissed the planning document. She described the hair evidence — her own hair, found on multiple victims — as circumstantial. She said she would need to hear it from him directly. She heard it. Now a wrongful death lawsuit is asking whether she should have heard it decades earlier. The son of Valerie Mack — who was six years old when his mother disappeared and was allegedly murdered by Heuermann in 2000 — has filed suit against Heuermann, Ellerup, and their daughter Victoria. The complaint alleges they either knew, concealed the truth, or deliberately looked away. It also goes after the money: a reported million-dollar payment from a Peacock documentary about the case. Ellerup’s attorney says she had no knowledge and no involvement. Prosecutors have confirmed she was away each time a murder occurred. But the civil question is different from the…

Topics covered

• courtroom drama
• wrongful death lawsuit
• true crime
• murder case
• civil vs criminal law

Keywords

• Rex Heuermann
• Asa Ellerup
• Valerie Mack
• wrongful death lawsuit
• murder
• courtroom
• civil case

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