Who Was Rex Heuermann? Gilgo Beach Killer Family Speaks
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Who was Rex Heuermann — really? His ex-wife says he was the one person she could count on. His daughter says he was a loving father who never let his two worlds cross.
The FBI's John Douglas says he's a malignant narcissistic sadistic psychopathic serial killer who almost certainly has more victims than the eight he's admitted to. They're all right. And that's what makes this case unlike anything else in modern true crime. The Peacock documentary stripped away the courtroom formality and the legal maneuvering and showed us the raw reality of what happens inside a serial killer's family when the truth finally surfaces. Asa Ellerup learned that women were murdered and dismembered in her basement — then moved back into that basement and started sleeping in the kill room. Victoria Heuermann listed the ages she was when each victim was killed, learned her father never thought about her during the murders, and forgave him on the spot. And Rex, in therapy sessions captured by the documentary, described a four-day kill cycle, admitted to timing his body dumps with a stopwatch, and revealed that sex and violence merged in his mind during adolescence and never separated.
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me for an expansive three-part conversation covering every psychological dimension of this family — from Asa's constructed reality to Victoria's impossible reckoning to Rex's mind itself. If you've been following the Gilgo Beach case and you want to understand what the documentary actually means — not just what happened, but why — this series is where you need to start.
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| 1:02.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski and Robin Green. |
| 1:09.4 | The Gilgo Beach killer. |
| 1:11.9 | That's who we are talking about today. |
| 1:14.1 | And the ecosystem around him, |
| 1:18.1 | because it goes far deeper than just Rex Hiramon himself. |
| 1:24.2 | The psychology of Asa Elrop is what we're going to be starting with. |
| 1:28.4 | That's the ex-wife of Rex here. |
| 1:32.4 | And Asa sat across from the man. |
| 1:34.4 | She'd been married to for nearly three decades and asked him, how many women did you do this to? |
| 1:42.2 | He said eight. |
| 1:43.8 | No hesitation. He's been charged for seven, but he said |
| 1:47.6 | eight. She walked out of that room and still said she believes that he loved her. The new Peacock |
| 1:53.5 | documentary, well, part four is new. The other three parts have been there for quite some time. |
| 1:59.1 | Laid bare something most people can't wrap their |
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