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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Inside the Mind of Asa Ellerup: FBI Profiler Breaks Down the Gilgo Beach Killer’s Home Life

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Inside the Mind of Asa Ellerup: FBI Profiler Breaks Down the Gilgo Beach Killer’s Home Life

In this special full-length edition of Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski is joined by Robin Dreeke—retired FBI Special Agent and former chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program—for a masterclass in psychological profiling, emotional survival, and the terrifying ease with which evil can thrive inside a family home.

Together, they dissect the marriage between Asa Ellerup and accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann. Through footage from Peacock’s documentary, The Gilgo Beach Killer: Secrets of a Serial Killer, Robin examines Asa’s emotional patterns, her lack of curiosity, and what her devotion may reveal about how Rex was able to live a double life for decades without raising alarm.

From their earliest days together—when Rex “saved” Asa from a difficult divorce—to the secret gun vault in the basement she never questioned, every detail is unpacked through the lens of behavioral science. Why did Asa never ask what her husband did during those long weekends alone? Why did she trust him so completely, even when DNA evidence tied her family to the victims?

We also explore the conflicted voice of Victoria Heuermann, their daughter, who is caught between love and revulsion. Like Kerri Rawson, daughter of BTK, Victoria must now reconcile the man who built her a dollhouse with the man now accused of horrific crimes.

Robin Dreeke breaks down how manipulation, grooming, denial, and emotional projection form the perfect storm for long-term concealment—and how that storm unraveled in one Long Island household.

This isn’t just about a killer. It’s about the people who lived with him. And what they may have known—or refused to see.

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0:00.0

This is the Hidden Killers podcast with Tony Bruske and continuing coverage of the case against Rex Hewerman.

0:08.5

He's the man that's also known as the Long Island serial killer or the Gilgo Beach murderer.

0:15.1

All allegedly, he is innocent until proven guilty.

0:18.5

But that's who people think he is, not just Rex Huron, the family man,

0:23.5

the architect from Massapequa Park, who lived in kind of a hoarder house and collected massive

0:28.3

amounts of weapons in his basement, and it turns out child porn, too. He, as many think, is the

0:35.4

killer, his hair, and his wife's hair, and his daughter's hair,

0:39.4

found on the burlap sacs of several of the victims, the family not implicated at all.

0:45.6

In fact, they've been pretty much cleared.

0:47.5

We're going to go through some audio, some interview, and some video that they recently gave

0:52.8

on a new peacock documentary about the Gilgo Beach

0:56.5

killer. And here, what was going on behind the scenes in that house with Asa Elrop and her

1:02.4

children? Here to help us break down the behavior end of this, because it's a weird thing to watch.

1:07.7

I'll tell you that much. Robin Drake, retired FBI special agency for the

1:10.8

counterintelligence behavioral analysis program. Before we get into the clips, Robin, I know you just had

1:16.1

a chance to break this down and go through it yesterday. After watching, just overall 10,000-foot view,

1:22.5

what was your reaction? What a strange person I am. I loved it. Yeah. That's what I make it. And here's why, you know, many, like most of the cases we cover, Tony, you know, we don't get a closer view of the individuals involved. We have to rely on media. We have to rely on really short clips or documents or things like that to kind of assess, you know, the human beings involved here. And as my role inside the FBI was not to diagnose anyone with with any kind of mental illness or anything like that is really to do a deep dive, to understand their patterns of life to predict behavior and identify potential areas to identify

2:02.4

data and evidence for testimony and all these other things. And so that's what this was really

2:08.3

good for. You know, instead of just seeing pictures of Asa and Rex and the daughter Victoria,

2:14.4

you actually got to hear them, hear the voices, you know, so you can see

2:18.3

congruency between nonverbals and verbals when she's speaking. And so, and then all these other things

2:24.9

that I had questions about, about vacations and how long it took. And all these things got really

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