Good riddance.
The ex-wife of Lengthy Island serial killer Rex Heuermann mentioned Thursday that he acquired what he had coming — even because the hulking brute was shipped upstate to start out serving a life sentence for butchering eight intercourse staff.
“She believes Rex acquired what he deserves,” Bob Macedonio, the lawyer for the killer’s former partner, Asa Ellerup, instructed The Submit. “She believes the sentence was 100% acceptable and her ideas and prayers are with the victims and their households.”
Heuermann, 62, was sentenced to a few life phrases in Suffolk County court docket Wednesday after pleading responsible to strangling his victims to dying between 1993 and 2010, torturing and dumping the our bodies.
The confessed killer was taken from the Suffolk County jail on Thursday morning transferred to the Inexperienced Haven Correctional Facility in Dutchess County, the county sheriff’s workplace and state officers mentioned.
“Rex Heuermann is at the moment present process admission processing at Inexperienced Haven Correctional Facility, one of many division’s designated consumption amenities,” a rep for the state Division of Correction and Neighborhood Supervision mentioned in an electronic mail.
Authorities haven’t revealed which jail will in the end be Heuermann’s ceaselessly dwelling.
The 6-foot-4 Massapequa Park architect confessed to killing eight girls and dumping their our bodies alongside desolate stretches of Lengthy Island, the place they have been discovered beginning in December 2010.
The instances remained unsolved till the investigation was reopened in 2022 and led to Heuermann’s arrest the subsequent yr — partly due to DNA from a pizza field he tossed within the trash.
In April, Heuermann confessed to killing Amber Lynn Costello, 27; Megan Waterman, 22; Melissa Barthelemy, 24; and Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, who have been famously often known as the “Gilgo 4” — in addition to Valerie Mack, 24; Jessica Taylor, 20; and Sandra Costilla, 28, the primary sufferer killed in 1993.
He additionally copped to killing Karen Vergata, 34, whose 1996 homicide had not been linked to him.
All however one among his victims have been mercilessly certain and tortured to dying in a “kill room” within the household’s basement whereas Ellerup and the couple’s two kids have been out of city.
At an emotional sentencing listening to in Riverhead on Wednesday, 13 family members of the slain girls confronted the killer for the primary time, delivering heart-wrenching sufferer affect statements.
“Take a look at me whereas I’m speaking,” Barthelemy’s sister, Amanda Funderburg, instructed Heuermann.
She was simply 15 when her older sister was murdered in 2009, and compelled to endure merciless, threatening and mocking telephone calls from Heuerrmann describing the slaying.
“I used to be compelled to dwell with crippling anxiousness, melancholy, PTSD, and destroyed nervous system always looking at my telephone,” Funderberg instructed the killer. “Due to the a number of occasions you had known as me from my sister’s telephone telling me she was a whore.”
Decide Timothy Mazzei, who wiped tears from his eyes through the victims’ statements, then requested Heuermann if he had something to say, snapping at him, “Arise!”
“There are not any phrases I can say, however I’m accountable for what was mentioned on this room as we speak,” Heuermann mentioned. “The phrases I’d say don’t have any that means and I’m going to depart it there at the moment.”
Then it was the choose’s flip.
“I do know that you simply’re sorry you bought caught. I assume that you simply’re sorry for what you probably did to your spouse and youngsters,” Mazzei mentioned. “You’ve been described as a really huge man however you’re a disgusting and despicable small man for those who’re a person in any respect and also you’re a coward.”
The choose then turned to court docket officers — “Get him out of right here.”
