Gilgo Beach Killer Rex Heuermann: Wife, Daughter, and Monster
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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3.3 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Three perspectives. One serial killer. And a family that will never be the same. The Peacock documentary on Rex Heuermann gave us access that no trial, no courtroom, no press conference ever could have — the private moments when a wife and a daughter learned the full scope of what the man they loved had done. Asa Ellerup's story is one of a woman whose entire life before Rex was defined by trauma — adopted, assaulted, suicidal — and whose entire life with Rex was defined by a reality he constructed for her. The therapist who worked with their family said for Asa, it wasn't denial. It was real. Whatever Rex said became truth. That's not complicity. That's something far more psychologically complex. Victoria Heuermann's story is one of identity destruction — a young woman who mapped her childhood ages against her father's kill timeline, who learned that women were murdered and dismembered ten feet from where she played as a child, and who forgave her father almost immediately because she said she can't move forward unless she does. And Rex's story — told through therapy sessions, jailhouse calls, and the assessment of FBI profiler John Douglas — is the story of a man who built a four-day ritual around murder, who timed his body dumps to the second, and who may still be hiding victims behind a carefully managed confession.
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me for a three-part series that goes deeper into the psychology of this case than anything else out there. No shortcuts. No surface-level takes. The full picture.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske and Robin Dree. |
| 0:09.2 | The Gilgo Beach killer. |
| 0:11.8 | That's who we are talking about today. |
| 0:13.8 | And the ecosystem around him, because it goes far deeper than just Rex Hiramon himself. |
| 0:24.2 | The psychology of Asa Elroup is what we're going to be starting with. |
| 0:28.3 | That's the ex-wife of Rex Hiram. |
| 0:32.3 | Asa sat across from the man. |
| 0:34.3 | She'd been married to for nearly three decades and asked him how many |
| 0:39.7 | women did you do this to he said eight no hesitation he's been charged for seven but he said eight |
| 0:47.7 | she walked out of that room and still said she believes that he loved her the new peacock |
| 0:53.4 | documentary well part four is new. |
| 0:56.1 | The other three parts have been there for quite some time. Laid bare something most people |
| 1:00.5 | can't wrap their heads around. A woman whose entire adult life was built around a man |
| 1:04.9 | was killing women in their basement. What makes someone hold on even after the truth comes out of his own mouth? |
| 1:13.7 | That's a question that I think a lot of us are asking. |
| 1:15.9 | Part 4 of the Gilgo Beach Killer House of Secrets is now available on Peacock. |
| 1:21.1 | This is part 4 to the 50-set G-Unit 1 that was done about, I think it was two years ago now. And we, we did a deep dive |
| 1:29.3 | on that at the time when it came out. And it was fascinating then. It's even more fascinating now |
| 1:33.8 | as part four dives deep into Asa Elrup, the ex-wife, now believing, now getting the |
| 1:40.7 | confession straight up from Rex, and still staying tight stay in tight to her man |
| 1:46.6 | which is is an interesting observation on all this joining us to break all this down |
| 1:52.7 | joining myself of course robin drake retired FBI special agency for the counterintelligence |
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