Rex Heuermann’s spouse replied to information he was suspected serial killer: ‘OK, it’s what it’s’

Rex Heuermann’s now-estranged wife shortly got here to phrases with the very fact he was being accused of being a perverted serial killer, based on the highest cop within the case — who stated she advised officers, “OK, it’s what it’s.”

Asa Ellerup, 59, was home in Massapequa Park final Thursday when officers burst in on the precise second her husband was busted exterior his midtown Manhattan architectural agency, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison told Fox 5 on Wednesday.

“Once we advised the spouse, she was shocked, she was embarrassed,” Harrison stated.

“However there was some extent the place we confirmed her sure photos and she or he stated, ‘OK, it’s what it’s.’”

The commissioner didn’t reveal precisely what photos helped Heuermann’s wife of at least 25 years settle for that he could also be behind the infamous killings.

Nonetheless, her husband was seen in numerous images in court documents shopping for obvious burner telephones and posing for creepy selfies whereas allegedly hooking up with sex workers.

DNA from Ellerup’s personal hair has been pivotal within the Gilgo Seashore case, however officers say she was touring every time the 4 girls her husband has been accused of killing had disappeared.

Harrison previously told CNN that the response of Ellerup and her two children urged that they’d no concept “about this double life” as an alleged killer.

“However, time will inform,” he advised the community. “And as soon as once more, there are nonetheless much more questions that should be finished to the household and mates.”

Heuermann has but to have a single customer on the Suffolk County correctional facility the place he’s being held since his arraignment Friday, Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr. told CNN.

And on Wednesday, Ellerup filed for divorce, simply six days after the shock of her husband’s arrest.

She and her grownup children have had their worlds “turned the other way up,” her newly retained lawyer, Bob Macedonio, told The US Sun.

“Clearly this has been a stunning time for them and a reasonably troublesome time to grasp,” he stated.

“As with every household, it’s extraordinarily upsetting and so they’re completely shocked and caught off guard.

“The household doesn’t wish to make any additional remark than that.”

Ellerup was pictured for the primary time for the reason that arrest with 26-year-old daughter Victoria — who labored for her dad’s structure agency. It was not instantly clear if the person with them was her son, who neighbors say has particular wants.

In his Fox 5 interview, Harrison stated the breakthrough match to Heuermann’s distinctive Chevy Avalanche was because of a state police database — suggesting that data was not out there within the 12 years before he arrange the particular Gilgo Seashore process drive.

He additionally let on that the worry of Heuermann’s arsenal of up to 300 guns was not the one purpose he was nabbed in midtown and never at residence.

“The technique was to see if we may catch him by his office, take that lengthy trip from thirty fifth and Fifth out to 30 Yaphank — which may very well be a one-and-a-half hour trip — and see if he may discuss and quit something,” Harrison continued.

As an alternative, “He requested for a lawyer –and that was the top of the dialog,” Harrison stated.

Heuermann was charged with three counts of homicide within the deaths of Amber Lynn Costello, 27, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, and Megan Waterman, 22. He pleaded not responsible on Friday. He has additionally been named “prime suspect” within the loss of life of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25.