Macedonio called Ray’s comments “reckless and irresponsible just to get media attention.”
“If [Rex Heuermann] is guilty of this, he took great detail to plan these homicides when she and the children were out of the jurisdiction,” said Macedonio. “I can assure you, the district attorney and the task force would not have said anything if they remotely thought she was involved in this.”
Robert Macedonio, the lawyer for Heuermann's estranged wife Asa Ellerup, and Vess Mitev, the attorney representing Heuermann's adult children Victoria and Christopher, called Ray's comments “defamatory” at a hastily called press conference just hours after Ray spoke to the news media outside his Stony Brook law firm and made several salacious suggestions.
“What we witnessed today was an unfortunate vortex drop down into the primordial ooze,” said Mitev. “If that's the evidence he has, it is nothing more than a frivolous side show and honestly we should all be ashamed of ourselves for giving it one ounce of attention.'
Presented with the comments from Macedonio and Mitev, Ray did not retreat from his allegations
Lawyers for Rex Heuermann's wife and children called the allegations "defamatory."
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Attorney John Ray alleges that the family of accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex A. Heuermann participated in the crimes, allegations refuted by the family. NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa reports.
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