Gilgo Beach ‘serial killer’ Rex Heuermann’s WIFE ‘visits him in jail’: Cancer-stricken woman goes to see the accused murderer who turned her life upside down amid pending divorce

The wife of alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann visited him in jail for the first time since his July 13 arrest.

Asa Ellerup filed for divorce six days after the Manhattan architect was accused of murdering three sex workers whose bodies were found on the deserted seaside strip near their Long Island Home between 2010 and 2011.

She is suing the FBI for damages sustained during a 12-day search in Massapequa Park, and told DailyMail.com in August that she refused to “walk down the street” because of hostility from neighbors.

“Rex Heuermann is allowed the same visits as all other inmates,” said Victoria DiStefano, spokesperson for the Suffolk County Jail. Newsday.

‘A visit lasts one hour and visitors are allowed to hug each other once at the beginning and end of the visit. All prisoners are searched after visits.’

Heuermann, 60, is accused of killing Megan Waterman, 22, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, and Amber Lynn Costello, 27, and is the prime suspect in the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25.

His wife’s visit came days after Suffolk Police Chief Rodney K. Harrison appointed additional investigators to the cases of two other women, Valerie Mack and Karen Vergata.

“I thought it was a good idea to ask some people from outside to look at other things that might be related to Rex Heuermann,” he told reporters.

Heuermann does not contest the divorce after he received the papers from his wife of 27 years on September 22.

His two children Victoria Heuermann, 26, who worked at her father’s architectural firm in Manhattan, and a son Christopher Sheridan, 33, have also stayed away.

Her attorney, Robert Macedonio, said Ellerup, 59, is at risk of losing health coverage for her breast and skin cancer since she filed for divorce from her husband.

“The source of her health insurance came from her husband’s work,” he explained.

“So that will no longer be available to her to treat the cancer.”

“Cancer drugs are expensive, how will she pay for the treatment?”

Ellerup – whose hair was found at one of the crime scenes but was not believed to be an accomplice – attended Farmingdale High School and married briefly in her 20s, divorcing in the early 1990s.

More than 250 guns were recovered by law enforcement from the home where police believe at least one of the murders occurred and where the couple had lived since 1994.

She said she was left without a bed to sleep in after detectives vandalized the family home.

“I woke up in the middle of the night, shaking,” she said, adding that her two adult children suffered from anxiety.

‘My children cry themselves to sleep. I mean, they’re not kids. They are grown adults, but they are my children, and my son is developmentally disabled and he cried himself to sleep.”

‘Look, I don’t want to walk down the street. I heard what people said about us. I’ve heard it.

‘I heard the other people around. They want the house bulldozed.”

Heuermann denied the three murders he is accused of and Harrison described the investigation into the murders of Mack and Vergata as a “work in progress.”

Mack, 24, disappeared from her parents’ home in New Jersey in the summer of 2000.

She was last known to be living in Philadelphia, where she worked as an escort under the name Melissa Taylor.

Her partial skeletal remains were discovered in September 2000 in a wooded area in Manorville – she was initially known as ‘Jane Doe No. 6’.

Harrison said the task force is also trying to determine how the dismembered body of 34-year-old Vergata was found on Fire Island in April 1996.

Like Mack, Vergata was never reported missing. She was previously called ‘Jane Doe No. 7’.

At the time of her disappearance she was said to have been working as an escort.

The 34-year-old disappeared around Valentine’s Day 1996. Two months later, her legs were found in a plastic bag in a park near Blue Point Beach on Fire Island.

Her skull was recovered more than a decade later, in April 2011, off Ocean Parkway.

Vergata’s remains were linked by DNA analysis in July. Thanks to advances in genetic genealogy, she was identified in October 2022.

All of Heuermann’s alleged victims worked as escorts who advertised themselves on Craigslist.

Their remains were found on a stretch of Gilgo beach in December 2010, all wrapped in camouflage burlap and tied with straps or red tape.

DNA on the burlap used to transport Waterman’s body was compared to samples from a pizza crust and napkin discarded outside Heuermann’s architectural firm in Manhattan.

The samples had a 99.96 percent match.

Before they could even think about testing his DNA, officers were put on his trail after a witness linked Heuermann’s Chevrolet Avalanche to Costello’s murder.

The car was then linked to Heuermann’s cell phone records, which linked him to locations linked to the murders.

Police accuse Heuermann of using Barthelemy’s phone to make mocking calls to her family – from the comfort of his office.

He last appeared in court on September 27 for a brief status hearing on his upcoming trial for the murders of Waterman, Barthelemy and Costello.

When the judge asked him if he had been able to review the evidence in his cell, Heuermann responded affirmatively, saying he had spent an average of “two to three” hours reviewing it. He didn’t speak another word.

His next court appearance is scheduled for Wednesday.