{"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":"She Called Him Her Savior — He Pled Guilty to Seven Murders","slug":"she-called-him-her-savior-he-pled-guilty-to-seven-murders","published_at":"2026-04-12T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gilgo-beach-murders-the-case-against-rex-heuermann-6470757/she-called-him-her-savior-he-pled-guilty-to-seven-murders","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gilgo-beach-murders-the-case-against-rex-heuermann-6470757","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8886740","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8886740.mp3?modified=1775828301&sid=5112097&source=rss","summary":"She called him her savior. He stood in a Suffolk County courtroom and admitted to murdering seven women. He admitted to killing an eighth. Rex Heuermann pled guilty. Life without parole. No trial. No testimony. Just an admission — and a family left to reckon with what was real and what was never what it appeared to be. Asa Ellerup maintained she would have known. Their daughter Victoria sat in that courtroom and watched her father enter the plea. Victoria has publicly said she believes he most likely committed the killings. Asa stood outside afterward, asked for privacy, and expressed sympathy for the victims' families. Her attorney said she never claimed Rex wasn't guilty — she said the man she was married to for 27 years, the father of her daughter, she did not believe was capable of these acts. A mother and daughter. Same evidence. Same nightmare. Opposite conclusions. Prosecutors allege Heuermann engineered his crimes around his family's schedule — acting when Asa and the children were away. Investigators found violent content and checklists on his devices. A deleted planning document recovered from his hard drive allegedly detailed the methodology. A basement vault held 279 weapons. Asa's own hair was reportedly found on victims. For nearly three decades, she reportedly saw nothing. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott breaks down the psychology of \"not knowing\" — how the mind builds walls that allow a person to live beside evidence they cannot process, and what a guilty plea does to the architecture that sustained decades of reported unawareness. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta examines why the plea happened. Every defense motion failed. Whole genome sequencing was admitted for the first time in a New York courtroom. The sentence was the same either way. Motta walks…","meta_description":"She called him her savior. He stood in a Suffolk County courtroom and admitted to murdering seven women. He admitted to killing an eighth. 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