The estranged wife of alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann maintains that her husband is “not capable of the crimes he is accused of,” her attorney said in a new statement on Wednesday.
Heuermann, a former New York architect, has been charged in the murders of four women whose remains were found in a desolate spot along the ocean near Gilgo Beach in December 2010, prosecutors said.
His wife, Asa Ellerup, filed for divorce nearly a week after he was arrested in the case in July, according to a court filing. Her attorney said Wednesday that she visits Heuermann weekly.
“I will listen to all of the evidence and withhold judgment until the end of trial,” Ellerup said in a new statement released on her behalf Wednesday through her attorney, Bob Macedonio. “I have given him the benefit of the doubt, as we all deserve.”
She also expressed her “heartfelt sympathies” to the victims and their families, her attorney said.
“Nobody deserves to die in that manner,” Ellerup said.
