{"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":"What Rex Heuermann’s Ex-Wife Did While Families Sued Her","slug":"what-rex-heuermann-s-ex-wife-did-while-families-sued-her","published_at":"2026-06-19T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gilgo-beach-murders-the-case-against-rex-heuermann-6470757/what-rex-heuermann-s-ex-wife-did-while-families-sued-her","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gilgo-beach-murders-the-case-against-rex-heuermann-6470757","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8918286","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8918286.mp3?modified=1781805788&sid=5112097&source=rss","summary":"She did a documentary. She reportedly collected over a million dollars for it. And while she was talking to cameras about nightmares in the basement, the families of Rex Heuermann’s victims were preparing a lawsuit that calls her a co-conspirator. Asa Ellerup is named in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Valerie Mack’s son. So is her daughter Victoria. So is Rex Heuermann. The allegation is civil conspiracy — that Asa knew or deliberately avoided knowing what was happening inside the house she shared with a serial killer for twenty-seven years, and that she helped conceal it. This is not a criminal charge. The DA’s office already cleared her. But a civil case does not need proof beyond a reasonable doubt. It needs a preponderance of evidence — more likely than not. And in that framework, the evidence prosecutors dismissed takes on different weight. Her hair was on the victims. Prosecutors said transference. She said on camera she did what she had to do to protect herself and her children. She renovated the basement where investigators say seven murders occurred and sleeps there. The lawsuit calls the documentary money unjust enrichment — profiting from the murders that destroyed the plaintiffs’ families. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down whether civil conspiracy sticks when the criminal investigation already cleared her, what the documentary payout means legally, and whether the endgame is not a verdict but a deposition — Asa Ellerup, under oath, answering twenty-seven years of questions for the first time. The criminal case is finished. The civil case is asking the questions the criminal case never did. END LINKS: Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch thi…","meta_description":"She did a documentary. She reportedly collected over a million dollars for it. 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