Ex-Wife's Confession: Heuermann's Eight Victims

0:00Rex Hyermann, the architect convicted in New York's Gilgo Beach serial killings, confessed to his ex-wife from jail that he murdered eight women in. The basement of their rundown family home on Long Island. He recently pleaded guilty to seven of those murders, plus one more he was in charge for yet, all over a 17-year span, and a teaser for the final episode of the Peacock documentary House of Secrets, airing this Thursday, his ex-wife Asa Elirup shares that he admitted. Wrangling the victims, mostly sex workers, right there in Massa Peacock Park while she was out. She pressed him directly on the number, and he said eight were all of them. Family members are reeling from the revelations, calling it an emotional nightmare. Elirup's lawyer stresses keeping the spotlight on the victims and their loved ones who've endured huge losses. The grown kids echo that, just wanting to move past this dark time. Earlier episodes showed the family, grappling with the man they knew, versus the monster cops described. Elirup defended him at first after his 2023 arrest, but her daughter came around to believing

1:03he did it. Hewerman faces life without parole at sentencing in June. Dump those bodies near Gilgo Beach about 50 miles from Manhattan, case closed, but the pain lingers for everyone touched by it. That's the story for today. Durham News Today, Driven by AI