Gilgo Beach serial killer suspects Rex Heuermann’s two grown children are living in a ‘waking horror show,’ their lawyer says
According to their attorney, the two adult children of serial killer Gilgo Beach suspect are living in a “waking horror show” following his triple murder charge.
Rex Heuermann is charged with the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Lynn Costello, who disappeared in 2009 and 2010, and is the prime suspect in the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, who disappeared in 2007.
He has two children — a daughter Victoria Heuermann, 26, who worked at her father’s architectural firm in Manhattan, and a son Christopher Sheridan, 33, who has special needs.
His children have been described as “bystanders” who get caught up in this “developing court case of the century” – living in a “walking horror show.”
Christopher (left) and Victoria (right) have reportedly been ‘crying themselves to sleep’ since their father’s arrest as police tear apart their Long Island home
Rex Heuermann, 59, will appear in court on three murder charges. He said nothing, but stared at the judge and at his cuffed wrists
Their lawyer Vess Mitev, of Mitev Law Firm, told Fox News digital: “They have to constantly… re-evaluate what is happening to them, almost in real time.
It’s clear that the appalling conditions their house was left in – torn apart from the floorboards to the shingles is actually their main concern.
“(They’re trying to) regain a basic sense of normalcy, which is completely impossible at the moment. They live in a surreal, awake horror show.’
He added: ‘Their rights and freedoms must be protected.
And that investigation is now getting under way as the prosecutor turned over a trove of documents last week, and the leads the prosecutor may be pursuing, whatever they may be, could at some point become intertwined with the rights and remedies my clients have and enjoy under the Constitution and under the laws of New York.”
This comes after the wife of Heuermann, serial killer Gilgo Beach suspect, admitted that her neighbors want the house she shared with the alleged killer razed to the ground.
Heuermann, the architect accused of murdering at least three women and leaving their bodies along a remote stretch of shoreline near Gilgo Beach on Long Island, appeared in court Tuesday for the first time since being charged.
Mitev Law Firm’s child advocate Vess Mitev said: ‘They have to constantly re-evaluate what is happening to them, almost in real time’
Woman Asa Ellerup, 59, told DailyMail.com she doesn’t want to “walk down the street” and hear what people who live in the area say about their homes.
“The neighbors want the house gone,” she said Wednesday. “They want it bulldozed.”
She became emotional as she discussed how she was trying to cope with the intense media attention and gossip in the neighborhood.
‘Look, I don’t want to walk down the street. I heard what people said about us. I heard,” Ellerup said as she began to cry.
“I heard the other people around. They want the house bulldozed. Do you understand? Please, I can’t talk anymore.’
Ellerup has filed for divorce to “protect herself” from any future lawsuits and has spoken to her husband in prison, her lawyer revealed on Monday.
She said some neighbors had been charitable, such as a Gofundme started by Melissa Moore, the daughter of Happy Face serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson, that raised more than $20,000.
A reporter asked her outright whether or not she deserved the money.
‘I don’t know what to say to that if people don’t want to finance me. What is she going to say, I don’t deserve this? I am alone.’
Asa Ellerup, wife of Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann suspect, has admitted her neighbors want the home she shared with the alleged killer razed to the ground
She noted that people have also given them everything from pizza to pots and pans, but said she “doesn’t have room for a lot of stuff” when asked what she needs.
Ellerup said that both she and her dog are crying and she notices that even her dog is stressed.
Heuermann was confused and looked like he had lost weight when he appeared in court in Riverhead, Long Island, last Tuesday.
The courtroom was packed with media and the families of some of the women he is accused of committing the murder.
Dressed smartly in a black blazer, blue shirt and cream khaki pants, he looked at his hands for most of the hearing.
The judge banned the release of four, two-terabyte hard drives containing evidence that have been handed over to lawyers and detectives, but will not be made public.
Heuermann will return to court in September.
The first victim, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, was discovered by Suffolk County Police on December 11, 2010. The body of Megan Waterman, 22, was found two days later
Maureen Brainard-Barnes was 25 years old when she went missing (left). Amber Lynn Costello was 27 years old. Their bodies were found near Barthelemy’s the same day
Afterwards, his lawyer, Michael Brown, spoke to the media out of court, insisting on his innocence.
“He told me he didn’t do this,” he said before complaining about the size of the evidence file and how long it will take to go through it.
“The district attorney has an entire office… I’m just one man.
“Just digging through the discovery is a huge undertaking, but we’re going to do it, we’re willing to do it.
“Whether it’s a year or a year and a half, when that day comes, we look forward to defending this case,” he said, adding that he would try to move the trial out of Suffolk County.
“We will deal with this matter in court.
The press has convicted my client without a shred of evidence, he doesn’t stand a chance,” he said.