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Very sick individual, hopefully justice prevailssnip Newsday
"Some of the statements they have made indicate that they have such callous disregard for the victims that they're making a profit," said Miller Place attorney John Ray, who is representing Torres. "They're earning money by that callousness and by that disregard of the victims' sensibilities. They shouldn't be given money for that."
Ray has also represented the estate of Shannan Gilbert, the New Jersey woman whose disappearance set off a law enforcement search that led to the discovery of the bodies of several of the victims.
Robert Macedonio, an Islip Terrace attorney who has represented Ellerup and Victoria Heuermann since Rex Heuermann's July 2023 arrest, said his clients had no knowledge of the killings.
"This has been a decade of Johnny Ray trying to keep himself relevant in a case that his original client, Shannan Gilbert, had no involvement in," Macedonio said on Monday night. "I reiterate strenuously that my clients, Asa Ellerup and Victoria Heuermann, had no involvement whatsoever in any of the alleged crimes of Rex Heuermann."
Ellerup has not been accused of any involvement in her ex-husband's crimes and law enforcement officials contend the killings occurred when his family, including wife and daughter, were traveling out of town.
But the lawsuit nonetheless contends they were complicit in Heuermann's alleged '