After Heuermann’s Plea: Wrongful Death Lawsuit, FBI Cooperation, and Unresolved Questions
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Rex Heuermann’s guilty plea resolves the criminal charges. It does not resolve everything else.
A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the son of victim Valerie Mack names Heuermann, his ex-wife Asa Ellerup, and their daughter Victoria as defendants. The suit alleges the family profited from a Peacock documentary about the case and showed callous disregard for victims’ families. Ellerup’s attorney, Robert Macedonio, has called the lawsuit reckless and stated that the individual responsible acted alone. Legal observers note that the guilty plea could help establish liability quickly and accelerate proceedings toward damages.
The cooperation agreement between Heuermann and the FBI’s behavioral analysis unit introduces a separate investigative track. The terms of that cooperation — what Heuermann has agreed to provide and what the Bureau is pursuing — extend beyond the scope of the charges that have been resolved. Whether additional cases, additional victims, or additional behavioral data emerge from that cooperation remains to be seen.
Sentencing is scheduled for June. A pre-sentence report will be prepared, and both sides will have the opportunity to make arguments before the judge. Victims’ families will have the opportunity to provide impact statements.
On Hidden Killers Live With Tony Brueski & Robin Dreeke, defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines the civil litigation track and its intersection with the criminal resolution. Robin Dreeke assesses the behavioral cooperation agreement and its investigative implications.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski and Robin Dree. |
| 0:07.8 | There's another part to this story. |
| 0:10.6 | While Rex Heerman was admitting to eight murders inside of Suffolk County courtroom, his estranged |
| 0:15.5 | wife, or ex-wife, Asa Elrop, was sitting in the last row, watching the man she was married to for nearly |
| 0:21.7 | three decades confessed to things. She has publicly said she'd never believed he was capable of. |
| 0:28.4 | She's called him her hero during this whole process. She walked outside and told reporters her |
| 0:33.6 | thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. |
| 0:40.1 | But Elroup isn't just a spectator anymore. |
| 0:45.3 | There's a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the son of victim Valerie Mack that now names her and her daughter, Victoria, as defendants, accusing them of knowing about the killings, |
| 0:51.0 | profiting from a documentary deal reportedly worth over a million dollars |
| 0:55.1 | in showing disregard for the families of the women Rex here and killed. So this, there's an |
| 1:00.7 | interesting angle over here. And again, in no way am I accusing Victoria or Asa of having knowledge |
| 1:06.2 | of any of this. I want to be very clear about that as we get into it. But it is a point of this |
| 1:10.3 | case, and we're going to discuss it. |
| 1:12.2 | Asa was married to him for nearly three decades. |
| 1:14.8 | She lived in that house, roughly 1,300 square feet, not a big place, where investigators found |
| 1:20.7 | a basement vault behind a large door containing hundreds of weapons and other stuff, other |
| 1:26.7 | places they weren't allowed to go into. |
| 1:29.6 | The wrongful death lawsuit says it's impossible that she didn't know something was happening in that house. |
| 1:36.0 | Eric, as someone who has prosecuted violent crimes that have happened inside homes, |
| 1:41.1 | do you believe that a wife can live in a space that small and not know something |
| 1:46.6 | is deeply wrong? Certainly there's a theoretical possibility that she did not know. You know, |
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