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Can Asa Ellerup Save Rex Heuermann? Family Fallout at Trial

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Tony Brueski

News, True Crime, News Commentary

4.2612 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Can Asa Ellerup Save Rex Heuermann? Family Fallout at Trial

As Rex Heuermann prepares to face trial, his family’s role becomes a potential turning point. Could his ex-wife Asa Ellerup testify? Would their daughter take the stand? And what about documentary footage that could be subpoenaed, dragging private conversations into the courtroom?

Tony and Eric unpack the risks of family testimony, the near-impossible task of seating an impartial jury in New York, and the emotional toll of putting loved ones under oath. With the public spotlight burning hot, the Gilgo Beach case isn’t just about DNA and evidence bags — it’s about families torn apart, jurors swayed by headlines, and the challenge of finding justice in a case everyone already thinks they know.

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0:42.2

Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult.

0:46.6

But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel good.

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I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy.

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0:58.5

This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels.

1:06.4

The evidence is going to be a big fulcrum of this entire case. And again, it's a tightrope.

1:14.2

You're combining all these cases into one. You're using a new type of technology that hasn't

1:18.5

been used in a New York court case before. Is that going to present some issues? How

1:23.8

receptive are juries to hearing evidence from, you know, a new way of examining DNA?

1:31.6

It's already confusing as it is.

1:34.4

It very much is, you know, jurors often look at experts, at least initially, as having

1:42.5

significant authority in that field, just being deemed an expert by the judge and being allowed to testify at trial, there's some credibility that might be imputed because of that from the jury to the expert.

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