Rex Heuermann Called Her "Dear" After Confessing to Gilgo Beach Killings
About this episode
The episode explores the complex emotional aftermath of Rex Heuermann's confession to the Gilgo Beach killings, particularly focusing on his ex-wife Asa Ellerup's reactions and experiences.
There's a moment in the final episode of the Peacock docuseries House of Secrets that stopped me cold. Rex Heuermann is on the phone from jail with his ex-wife Asa Ellerup. He's already confessed to killing eight women. He's already told her he strangled and dismembered victims in the basement of the home they shared. He's already described to their daughter Victoria how his victims weren't real people in his mind. And on this call, he calls Asa "dear." And she smiles. That single moment tells you more about the aftermath of the Gilgo Beach case than anything that happened in the courtroom. Because Asa Ellerup isn't smiling because she doesn't care. She's smiling because thirty years of marriage built reflexes that a confession can't undo overnight. She's a woman caught between the life she lived and the life that was actually happening underneath it, and she hasn't figured out how to stop responding to the version of Rex that felt safe — even after learning what he really was. The docuseries reveals that Asa has renovated the Massapequa Park basement and moved into it. She sleeps every night in the room where her ex-husband admits he killed. She says it's spiritual. She says…
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