“She meant what they’ve done to them and the family is not even human,' Ellerup's attorney, Bob Macedonio, explained. Victoria Heuermann, Ellerup’s daughter, said that they were treated by law enforcement as “not human” while police scoured the property for nearly two weeks. “It’s the only thing I got,” Ellerup added, referring to her home. An excavator could be seen digging in the backyard last week. Investigators, who seized a number of possible evidentiary items from inside the architect’s home, also detected several 'disturbances' in the home’s backyard by using ground penetrating radars. And when I got into the house I might have had a few steps of walking space between my front door and the kitchen.' “ walked up, they went into the vehicles and out the door they went - out,' Ellerup said, describing the search of her home. Last week, authorities announced they hadn’t “ruled out” Heuermann’s “cluttered” Long Island home as a crime scene, according to prosecutors.Īn excavator in the backyard of Rex Heuermann's home in Massapequa Park, NY.

Prior to his arrest, Heuermann lived at the home with Ellerup, as well as the couple’s adult children. Authorities have said Ellerup was outside the country at the time of the suspected slayings. RELATED: Gilgo Beach Murder Suspect Rex Heuermann 'Traumatized' After Arrest, His Lawyer SaysĮllerup has since filed for divorce from Heuermann following his arrest. They’re grown adults but they’re my children, and my son has developmental disabilities and he cried himself to sleep.' “I woke up in the middle of the night, shivering,” Ellerup told the New York Post. “My children cry themselves to sleep. The police searches, however, Ellerup said, destroyed her home and have even left her without a mattress to sleep on. He pleaded not guilty to the murders of Barthelemy, Waterman and Costello.ĭetectives spent 12 days tearing apart the family’s ranch-style Massapequa Park home following Heuermann ’s arrest in the search for additional clues pertaining to the string of Long Island serial killings. Heuermann, who is scheduled to make his first court appearance Tuesday, denies involvement in the killings.

All three women were sex workers who advertised their services on Craigslist and other sites, according to police. Heuermann was arrested in July and charged with three counts each of first- and second-degree murder relating to the Gilgo Beach serial killings of Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, and Amber Lynn Costello 27, whose remains were found strewn along Long Island’s South Shore in 2010. RELATED: Suspect in Infamous Gilgo Beach Murders Arrested Īsa Ellerup, 59, said she’s been blindsided by crippling anxiety in the wake of her husband Rex Heuermann’s arrest, which she said, has also taken its toll on the couple’s adult children. The wife of the suspect in the Gilgo Beach murders says her children “cry themselves to sleep” since their father was arrested under suspicion of being the Long Island serial killer.

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