{"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's Confession to Asa Ellerup Exposed in Gilgo Beach Documentary","slug":"rex-heuermann-s-confession-to-asa-ellerup-exposed-in-gilgo-beach-documentary","published_at":"2026-04-27T17:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gilgo-beach-murders-the-case-against-rex-heuermann-6470757/rex-heuermann-s-confession-to-asa-ellerup-exposed-in-gilgo-beach-documentary","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gilgo-beach-murders-the-case-against-rex-heuermann-6470757","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8895160","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8895160.mp3?modified=1777048590&sid=5112097&source=rss","summary":"Before Rex Heuermann stood in Suffolk County Court and pleaded guilty to the Gilgo Beach murders, he was given something almost unheard of — a private meeting with his ex-wife Asa Ellerup and their daughter Victoria to confess to them first. The final episode of the Peacock docuseries House of Secrets captures both women recounting that meeting. And what they describe goes to places the courtroom allocution never went. Asa called him Mr. Heuermann. She asked how many women he killed. He said eight. He told her seven died in the basement of their Massapequa Park home while she and the children were away. He told her one was killed in his vehicle. He said every murder except the first was planned. Victoria asked if he ever saw his victims as human beings. He told her he didn't. But the confession is only half of this story. The other half is what Asa did with it. She visited him twelve times after that conversation. She went home and gutted the basement — new floors, new walls, new everything — and moved into it. She sleeps every night in the room where Heuermann says he killed. She told the cameras it's spiritual. She says she's apologizing to the victims. And on recorded phone calls, Heuermann still calls her \"dear\" and she still smiles at the sound of his voice. I go through every detail — the confession, Victoria's account, the murder that allegedly happened days before Rex and Asa's destination wedding, the crime scene book found on the kitchen table, and what Asa's transformation from defender to basement dweller reveals about what three decades of unknowing trust does to a person when the truth finally arrives. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? 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