In her more than
27 years of marriage to Rex Heuermann, Asa Ellerup likely did not know about the
gruesome double life her husband is accused of living, Suffolk County’s top cop says.
“If you ask me, I don’t believe, that they knew about this double life that Mr. Heuermann was living,” Suffolk County police commissioner Rodney Harrison said of the suspect’s family.
But authorities are not ruling anything out yet and are continuing to collect information “to see if the family might have known exactly what Mr. Heuermann was up to,” Harrison told CNN’s Erica Hill Monday.
On Wednesday, less than a week since her husband’s arrest, Ellerup filed for divorce, her attorney Robert Macedonio told CNN.
She was shocked to hear what her husband is accused of, Harrison said.
But she unknowingly played a key role in her husband’s arrest: it was her DNA, among other evidence, that authorities say helped tie Heuermann to the crimes.
Heuermann and Ellerup were married in April 1996, the suspect said in a 2018 deposition. Since then, they lived in Heuermann’s red and green childhood home in the Long Island suburb of Massapequa Park with their daughter and Heuermann’s stepson.
Neighbors described the home as creepy and the family as distant, according to the
Long Island Press, a monthly magazine serving Long Island.
“The family is very to themselves, quiet,” neighbor Frankie Musto told the publication. “We never saw anything suspicious.”
In his 2018 deposition, Heuermann said he had been married once before. That marriage, he said, lasted three years and they had no children
*what are those red tanks for? kinda behind the tree.