Rex Heuermann's Ex-Wife Asa Ellerup: Gilgo Beach Killer Exposed
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
She was adopted and never felt wanted. Assaulted at sixteen. Attempted to take her own life before she was out of her teens. And then a man named Rex Heuermann showed up and said move in, I'll handle everything. For a woman who had never once felt safe in her own skin, that offer wasn't romance — it was survival. And it sealed her fate for the next three decades. The Peacock documentary on Rex Heuermann gave us something the courtroom never would have — a raw, unfiltered look at the woman standing behind the Gilgo Beach Killer.
Asa Ellerup didn't just live with a serial killer. She built her entire identity around him. The family therapist said it plainly: as long as Rex told Asa he was innocent, there was no reaching her. His words overwrote reality itself. So what happens when reality finally breaks through? What happens when the man who was your entire foundation looks you in the eye and says he killed eight women — some of them in your home?
Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott breaks down every layer of Asa Ellerup's psychology in this conversation. We get into the trauma history that made her vulnerable, the specific mechanisms Rex used to maintain control without her ever recognizing it, and the question the therapist raised that haunts this entire case — whether Asa will ever truly let Rex go, even now that she knows exactly what he is. This is one of the most psychologically complex figures in modern true crime.
Shavaun doesn't flinch from any of it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski 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 women |
| 0:40.4 | did you do this to he said eight no hesitation he's been charged for seven but he said eight |
| 0:47.8 | 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 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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