{"podcast":{"title":"The Gilgo Beach Murders: The Case Against Rex Heuermann","slug":"the-gilgo-beach-murders-the-case-against-rex-heuermann-6470757","podcast_index_feed_id":6470757,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5112097.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5112097","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43563022.jpg","author":"Tony Brueski","episode_count":495,"summary":"For nearly two decades, the remains of young women kept turning up along the desolate stretches of Long Island — in the scrub brush off Ocean Parkway, in wooded areas out east, in places no one was supposed to find them. And for most of that time, no one was held accountable. I'm Tony Brueski, and this podcast is my deep dive into one of the most chilling serial murder cases in modern American history — the Gilgo Beach murders and the case against Rex Heuermann, the New York architect now charged with the killing of seven women spanning from 1993 to 2010. This isn't a case summary. It's the full picture — the women who were allegedly targeted and discarded, the investigative failures that let a suspected killer allegedly operate in plain sight for decades, and the forensic breakthroughs that finally led to an arrest in July 2023. I break down the evidence prosecutors have built — DNA analysis, cellphone data, digital files allegedly recovered from Heuermann's own computer — and the defense strategy aimed at dismantling it. I cover the courtroom battles, the rulings on evidence admissibility, and every development as this case moves toward its next chapter. But more than anything,…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T10:20:02.504285+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gilgo-beach-murders-the-case-against-rex-heuermann-6470757"},"episode":{"title":"Rex Heuermann Controlled Asa Ellerup: Gilgo Beach Killer Psychology","slug":"rex-heuermann-controlled-asa-ellerup-gilgo-beach-killer-psychology","published_at":"2026-04-30T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gilgo-beach-murders-the-case-against-rex-heuermann-6470757/rex-heuermann-controlled-asa-ellerup-gilgo-beach-killer-psychology","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gilgo-beach-murders-the-case-against-rex-heuermann-6470757","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8897136","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8897136.mp3?modified=1777486105&sid=5112097&source=rss","summary":"Rex Heuermann didn't just hide what he was from his ex-wife — he built the world she lived in. Every wall. Every doorway. Every belief she held about who he was and what their life meant. And then he filled that world with a version of himself that made the real Rex invisible. The Peacock documentary revealed how total that control was. The family therapist described a dynamic where anything Rex told Asa became her operating reality. When he said he was innocent, that wasn't just something she believed — it became the only truth her mind could process. Evidence didn't matter. Investigators didn't matter. DNA didn't matter. Rex said he didn't do it, so he didn't do it. That's not stubbornness. That's not loyalty. That's the end result of a man who found a woman with no psychological foundation and poured himself into every crack until he was the only thing holding her together. Asa was adopted and never bonded with her family. She was assaulted at sixteen. She attempted to end her life. Rex saw all of that — and whether consciously or not, he used it. He became her safety. Her anchor. The one person in her entire life who made the chaos stop. And he did it while killing women in the basement of their home. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me to analyze the specific control dynamics Rex Heuermann exerted over Asa — how he maintained a double life not through elaborate deception but through the psychological architecture of the relationship itself, and what the documentary reveals about whether Asa can ever fully separate from the man who defined her existence for three decades. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.y…","meta_description":"Rex Heuermann didn't just hide what he was from his ex-wife — he built the world she lived in. Every wall. Every doorway. 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