Asa Ellerup said in a statement through her attorneys that she sympathized with the victims and that 'nobody deserves to die in that manner.'
The wife of Rex Heuermann, the man suspected of killing four women around Gilgo Beach on Long Island in New York, issued a statement Wednesday saying she is giving her husband 'the benefit of the doubt.'Asa Ellerup said in a statement through her attorneys that she sympathized with the victims and their families and that 'nobody deserves to die in that manner.''I will listen to all of the evidence and withhold judgment until the end of trial,' she said.
Then in January of this year, he was indicted in the killing of Maureen Brainard-Barnes. The four women, dubbed the 'Gilgo Four,' were found in 2010 buried in close proximity to each other along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach. All four were sex workers who had gone missing between 2007 and 2010.Heuermann has pleaded not guilty to the charges.Bob Macedonio, one of Ellerup's attorneys, told '48 Hours' in September 2023 that Ellerup 'had no idea any of this was going on.
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