The estranged wife and children of accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann returned to the family’s Long Island home Thursday, photographs show.
Asa Ellerup, who filed for divorce from the alleged murderer earlier this month, returned to the couple’s Massapequa Park home Thursday morning wearing a gray shirt, blue pants and her hair back.
She was escorted by a man believed to be a detective. Their return came after they ended the search Tuesday. Her kids, 26-year-old Victoria Heuermann and Christopher Sheridan, 33, were also present.
“Don’t talk to me,” she could be heard shouting to a reporter from the front yard of her home, where Sheridan also sat. “Wanna take pictures? Go ahead … Don’t talk to me.”
She proceeded to sit on a bench in front of her home and pet a dog.
When asked if she was staying in the home, she responded: “Please, leave me alone. That’s none of your business.”
Neighbors have said Ellerup’s adult son has special needs.
Police had spent days digging the property in a search for new evidence against the once-successful New York City architect, 59.
Before discontinuing the search at the home earlier this week, they revealed the discovery of a sound-proof, walk-in vault.
Ellerup had previously asked for privacy in the wake of Heuermann’s shocking arrest, which 13 years after several women were found killed along Long Island’s Gilgo Beach and surrounding areas.
Heuermann has been charged with six counts of murder, three in the first-degree and three more in the second. He has so far been accused in the deaths of Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, Amber Lynn Costello, 27.
The bodies of each of the three women Heuermann were found along the same stretch of Long Island’s Gilgo Beach between June and September 2010.
Heuermann is also being eyed in the case of the death of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, whose body was found on the same beach years earlier.
Prosecutors alleged Heuermann had a secret life of seeking prostitutes, searching for child pornography and an obsession with the women he’s accused of killing and their families.
Macedonio & Duncan, LLP, the firm representing Ellerup in the divorce, said last week Ellerup and her family “are going through a devastating time in their lives.”