Suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann and his estranged wife, Asa Ellerup, have finalized their divorce, her lawyer said Friday.
“We finalized all the divorce documents submitted to the court last night,” said Ellerup’s attorney, Robert Macedonio, said outside a Suffolk County courtroom.
“She has to move on. She has to worry about protecting her two children with the likelihood that he’s never gonna get out of jail,” he said, without revealing other details of the settlement.
Rex Heuermann and his estranged wife, Asa Ellerup have reached a settlement in their divorce. Dennis A. ClarkEllerup filed for divorce shortly after the Manhattan architect and Massapequa Park, Long Island, resident was first arrested for the murder of three women — Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Costello and Megan Waterman— in July 2023.
He was later charged with killing four more women: Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Valerie Mack, Jessica Taylor and Sandra Costilla.
A judge will now review the divorce settlement and must sign off to make the split official.
Rex Heuermann was first hit with a divorce filing after being charged with murder in 2023. NewsdayOn Friday, the suspected killer’s lawyers were in court to ask a judge to toss DNA evidence that was recovered from six of the seven victims’ hairs.
Hairs belonging to Ellerup and her daughter, Victoria, were also found on some of the victims — so Ellerup is “interested” in how they “got to determine it was her,” Macedonio told The Post.
The suspected serial killer is estranged from wife Asa Ellerup (left). Courtesy Melissa Moore“She has a difficult time throughout this whole process believing the husband that she was married to for 29 years now was capable of committing these horrific acts,” he added.
The accused killer’s adult daughter — who has previously stuck by her dad’s side — is grasping for a sense of “closure,” Macedonio said.
“This is a process for her too. This is the only man that she grew up with, worked with, and her hair was found on some of the victims’ bodies, too, so it’s the same for her — to get whatever closure she needs to move on with her life,” he said.
Dr. Kelley Harris, who teaches Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, also testified Friday about lab methods used to analyze DNA, including using “rootless hairs to perform whole genome sequencing.”
Heuermann has pleaded not guilty and his trial date has not been set yet.
