Overview
- In a preview of Peacock’s The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets, Asa Ellerup says Heuermann told her he killed eight women and that seven were murdered in his basement.
- Heuermann pleaded guilty on April 8 to seven murders and admitted an eighth, telling the court he strangled the women and dismembered some, with sentencing set for June 17 to multiple life terms.
- Prosecutors say they tied him to the case through burner-phone data, a witness match to a pickup truck, and DNA from a discarded pizza crust that matched hair found on victims.
- Suffolk County Sheriff Errol D. Toulon Jr. said fellow killer Keith Hunter Jesperson has mailed Heuermann more than 10 letters, with only a single reply from Heuermann.
- Under his plea, he agreed to interviews with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, and investigators are still reviewing other remains found along Long Island’s Ocean Parkway as Peacock’s finale featuring Ellerup’s account debuts Thursday.