A documentary released Thursday recounts the confessions ofAmericanserial killer Rex Heuermann, who recently admitted to strangling and dismembering women and scattering their remains around a coastal area near New York City.
Heuermann, 62, pleaded guilty in early April to seven murders, plus an eighth that he had not been charged with, in a disturbing crime spree spanning 1993 to 2010 dubbed the Gilgo Beach killings.
He faces life in prison with no chance of parole when sentenced in June.
Episode four of “The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets,” streaming on Peacock in the United States, focuses on Heuermann confessing his crimes to his ex-wife and their daughter as part of a family therapy session.
The confessions, which Heuermann made in 2025 at a Long Island jail, are not filmed but the two women recount them afterward on camera.
Asa Ellerup, his ex-wife, tells how Heuermann showed no remorse for his victims, adding: “I think the tears were for me.”
Their daughter Victoria Heuermann says her father explains that “his demons got to him.”
“When he was in a certain opportunity or there was a certain catalyst in front of him that would start to create these dark urges,” she says.
Recorded phone conversations between Heuermann and his family also feature in the documentary, of which three episodes already streamed last year.
The Gilgo Beach case had stumped investigators for years with no suspects identified, and some critics alleged it would have progressed more quickly had the women not been sex workers.
Source: Insider Paper
