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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
Rex Heuermann confessed to strangling eight women. He told his own daughter the victims were not real people to him. He described his motivation as demons. And on recorded phone calls from jail, Asa Ellerup's primary concern was making sure she did not say the wrong thing — not confronting him, not demanding answers, but managing his emotional comfort.For twenty-seven years, Asa's role in this relationship was to keep things smooth. To not push. To not ask the question that makes the room tense. The confession changed the subject matter. It did not change the role. She is still orienting her life around Rex's needs. And the reason she can't see how that reads to the rest of the world goes all the way back to a foundation that was fractured long before she met him.A psychological deep dive into the post-confession behavior of a woman who was built by someone else from the ground up — and the building is still standing.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#GilgoBeach #RexHeuermann #AsaEllerup #GilgoBeachKiller #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast #GilgoBeachMurders #SerialKiller #TrueCrimeCommunity
00:00 Docket 01:01 Intro 01:46 Ohio Supreme Court Rejects Shirilla's Latest Appeal 05:41 Gilgo Beach Killer's Family Rebuilds 09:27 Ex-Colorado DNA Analyst "Missy" Woods Pleads Guilty 14:42 Teacher Broke House Arrest 85 Times, Prosecutors Say 17:02 Kidnapped Teen Found Inside Dryer 18:32 Father Faces Murder Charges After Shooting Daughter 19:53 U.S. Supreme Court Reinstates Conviction 21:53 Legal History 24:04 Quote of the Day 24:16 Dumb Criminal of the Day: Florida Man Sees the Antichrist Mackenzie Shirilla just lost another shot at challenging her murder conviction. The Ohio Supreme Court declined review after her post-conviction appeal ran into a one-day filing issue. Scott breaks down why a procedure can shut a case down before the evidence is even argued. Watch to the end and tell us: strict deadline, or should the court have heard it? #MackenzieShirilla, #OhioSupremeCourt, #TrueCrime, #LegalAnalysis, #CrimeTalk, #Appeal Crime Talk Store: https://crimetalknetwork.com/shop/
Rex Heuermann, the Gilgo Beach serial killer, has been sentenced to life in prison for the murders of seven women, after admitting to killing eight over a 17-year span. This week, Jessie and Andie discuss the sentencing hearing, the families' devastating victim impact statements, and the long-delayed reckoning for the women Heuermann murdered.Current Affairs is Love Murder's shorter show about the cases of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now.Sources:https://www.suffolkcountyda.org/gilgo-serial-killer-sentenced-to-three-consecutive-life-sentences-plus-100-years-for-murdering-eight-women/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/17/gilgo-beach-killer-rex-heuermann-sentencinghttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/rex-heuermann-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-new-yorks-gilgo-beach-serial-killingshttps://abc7ny.com/post/rex-heuermann-sentenced-new-yorks-gilgo-beach-serial-killings/19314233/https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/long-island-architect-pleads-guilty-gilgo-beach-serial-killings-2026-04-08/Find LOVE MURDER online:Website: lovemurder.loveInstagram: @lovemurderpodTwitter: @lovemurderpodFacebook: LoveMrdrPodTikTok: @LoveMurderPodPatreon: /LoveMurderPodCredits: Love Murder is hosted by Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette, researched by Sarah Lynn Robinson and researched and written by Jessie Pray, produced by Nathaniel Whittemore and edited by Kyle Barbour-HoffmanSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Rex Heuermann told his wife he killed eight women. Seven of those conversations reportedly happened in their own basement — the same basement where, according to prosecutors, he described the dismemberments in detail. Asa Ellerup filed for divorce, kept the house, tore out the floors, hung a cross on the wall, arranged stuffed animals on the shelves, and moved in. She sleeps there now. She has reportedly visited Rex in jail around twelve times since the confession. She told Peacock cameras she wants to understand his triggers.The audience wants to understand hers.Why does someone keep returning to a man who confessed to serial murder? Why does the family allegedly collect seven figures from a documentary deal while a victim's son — who was six years old when his mother was killed — files a lawsuit claiming they knew? Why does daughter Victoria say she believes her father most likely did it, while Asa maintains an active relationship with him?Robin Dreeke, retired FBI Special Agent and former chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, takes every question head-on. He breaks down what loyalty after confession actually looks like in behavioral terms, where the boundary between trauma response and complicity starts to blur, and what the DNA evidence recovered from all seven victims tells him about how close someone had to be. Nothing speculative. Every answer grounded in the documented record, driven by the listeners who've been living in this case.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #AsaEllerup #GilgoBeach #KillRoom #VictoriaHeuermann #SonOfSamLaw #RobinDreeke #FBI #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime
Three cases the audience has been living inside. The questions they've been asking for months. One conversation where Robin Dreeke, retired FBI behavioral analyst, answers every one of them.Nancy Guthrie has been missing for five months. A listener flagged a neighbor with a walk-in gem vault and a Google Maps pin that reportedly overlaps with Nancy's property. The wrong-house theory hasn't been publicly addressed by law enforcement. The masked suspect was inside the house for forty-five minutes with the camera disabled and the back doors propped open. Robin examines what that timeline and that preparation tell us about whether the target was Nancy — or someone else entirely.Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to eight murders. His ex-wife gutted the room where he confessed to killing seven women, redecorated it, and sleeps there. She told cameras it's spiritual. She's visited Rex twelve times since his confession. The Ellerup family reportedly collected seven figures from a documentary. Robin addresses the behavioral meaning of that kind of proximity and the legal gap that made the payout possible.Mackenzie Shirilla and her mother built a coded language to beat prison call monitoring. Prosecutors cracked it. Steve lost his teaching job. Natalie called the Russos evil. Mackenzie worried about her stuff. Robin addresses who is actually running this family's defense and whether Mackenzie can ever reach accountability with these parents in the picture.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#NancyGuthrie #RexHeuermann #MackenzieShirilla #AsaEllerup #NatalieShirilla #RobinDreeke #FBI #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #ListenerQA
Rex Heuermann sat across from Asa Ellerup and told her he killed eight women. Seven in their basement. He described the dismemberments. She filed for divorce to keep the house. Then she gutted the basement, put down new floors, hung a cross on the wall, arranged stuffed animals on the shelves, and moved in. She sleeps there. She has visited Rex in jail approximately twelve times since the confession. She told Peacock cameras she wants to understand his triggers.The audience has a simpler question: why? Why does someone keep going back to the man who confessed to serial murder? Why does the family reportedly collect seven figures from a documentary while a victim's son — who was six years old when his mother was killed — files a lawsuit alleging they knew? Why does Victoria say she believes her father most likely did it while Asa maintains a relationship with him?Robin Dreeke, retired FBI Special Agent and former chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, addresses each question directly. He walks through what loyalty after confession actually looks like in behavioral terms, where the line between trauma and complicity gets tested, and what the DNA evidence found on all seven victims tells us about proximity. Listener-driven. Every question grounded in the documented record.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #AsaEllerup #GilgoBeach #KillRoom #VictoriaHeuermann #SonOfSamLaw #RobinDreeke #FBI #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime
In this episode, we explore the sentencing of Rex Heuermann, the Gilgo Beach serial killer. Part of this episode is a past Impact episode that dealt with Heuermann's connection to South Carolina. We also reflect on a past interview with FBI profiler Ann Burgess. Burgess was the inspiration for the character Dr. Wendy Carr on the Netflix series Mindhunter. She helped the FBI develop modern psychological profiling for serial killers. You can hear that full episode from the August 28, 2023, Impact of Influence podcast titled The Mindhunter Who Studied Charlotte Strangler Speaks Seton Tucker and Matt Harris began the Impact of Influence podcast shortly after the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. Now they cover true crime, past and present, from the southeast region of the U.S. Impact of Influence is part of the Evergreen Podcast Company. Look for Impact of Influence on Facebook and YouTube. Please support our sponsors, including Quince. Elevate your closet with Quince. Go to Quince dot com slash impact for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five -day returns code word Impact #GilgoBeach, #RexHeuermann, #criminalprofiling, #FBI, #serialkillers, #criminalpsychology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A judge delivered a blistering condemnation of Rex Heuermann before sentencing the admitted Gilgo Beach serial killer to multiple life terms, bringing a dramatic end to a case that remained unsolved for decades before DNA evidence led to his arrest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
Rex Heuermann has been locked in a cell at the Riverhead Correctional Facility for over a thousand days. The Gilgo Beach killer. The LISK. The man who admitted to killing eight women across Long Island over seventeen years. And according to Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon, in all that time, Rex Heuermann has never once shown a change in emotion. No despair. No discomfort. Nothing.The sheriff, who has spent more than four decades in law enforcement, said he's never seen an inmate like this. His assessment, according to reporting: he believes Heuermann is a sociopath.What makes that assessment even more chilling is what Heuermann has been doing with his time. According to reporting, he's been devouring crime novels about serial killers from the jail library. He reportedly struck up a correspondence with Keith Hunter Jesperson — the Happy Face Killer — the only person he chose to write back to out of all the mail arriving at his cell. And in that letter, he reportedly called Jesperson's correspondence “a help and a comfort.”I take a deep dive into the psychology of what happens when a man like Heuermann stops performing for the public and starts settling into who he apparently always was. The reading list. The correspondence with another killer. The total absence of emotion over three years. Forensic psychologist Katherine Ramsland's research into why killers seek each other out maps directly onto what we're seeing with Heuermann.This isn't remorse. This isn't guilt. According to the people watching him every day, this is a man becoming comfortable with exactly who he is.Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#GilgoBeach #RexHeuermann #HiddenKillers #LISK #GilgoBeachKiller #HappyFaceKiller #SerialKillerPsychology #LongIslandSerialKiller #TrueCrime #SuffolkCounty
According to reporting, Rex Heuermann sat in his cell at the Riverhead Correctional Facility six weeks after his arrest and wrote a letter. Not to a friend. Not to family. To Keith Hunter Jesperson — the Happy Face Killer — a man convicted of killing at least eight women during the 1990s.And one of the things the Gilgo Beach killer reportedly wanted to know? Whether Jesperson had butter for his bread in prison.The LISK — the man who admitted to strangling eight women and scattering their remains across Long Island — settling into jail life by asking another serial killer about food. According to those who've seen the letter, Heuermann's tone was calm. Settled. He wrote that he'd been doing “a lot” of thinking. He reportedly called Jesperson's letters “a help and a comfort.”Jesperson had reportedly urged Heuermann to confess and take a plea. Heuermann ignored the advice for nearly three years — and then did exactly that when he pleaded guilty in April 2026 to seven murders and admitted killing an eighth.I break down the full content of that letter, the psychology of why Jesperson reached out, why he then forwarded Heuermann's response to a podcaster, and what forensic research tells us about why killers seek each other out. I also cover Heuermann's jail reading list — crime novel after crime novel about serial killers — and what Sheriff Toulon said after watching him for over a thousand days without seeing a single change in the man's expression.The families' attorney called them both what they are: losers and cowards who chose the most vulnerable people they could find.Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#GilgoBeach #RexHeuermann #LISK #GilgoBeachKiller #HappyFaceKiller #LongIslandSerialKiller #SerialKillerLetters #RexHeuermannsLetter #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers
Corey Feldman back in the hospital, Dave Landau back in-studio, Meghan Markle back to the UK, bossy Olivia Wilde, Luigi Mangione's defense, Gilgo Beach Killer thinks he hot, unrecognizable Debbie Rowe, and Jim's Picks: Top 10 Song Outros. The Birmingham pool party continues. We have a new more unedited video. North West will be playing the Royal Oak Music Theater in August. Can't wait! Luigi Mangione is working on getting off for murdering the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Does he have a chance? Drew thinks the Gilgo Beach Killer looks hot in his new suit. Floyd Mayweather is facing two felonies for writing bad checks. Some people are saying he's innocent because he had to have someone write the checks for him. Nate Bargatze is getting slammed for going to UFC Freedom 250. Seems like a good reason. Corey Feldman is okay after a medical scare on a plane. Thank God. Nick Swardson also had some health problems. Brand new Bonerline. Debbie Rowe is now unrecognizable. J Lo is still one of the most hated women in the world. Office Romance is a failure! Olivia Wilde was on Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper. Boy does she sound like a bummer to be around. Rock Hudson looked great before he died of AIDS. Jelly Roll has lost over 350 lbs, and he's too hot for his wife. Speaking of dumping your wife after getting hot, Jason Biggs is getting divorced. Amy Schumer thinks she's hot too. The UK is bracing for Meghan Markle going to the UK. Think Beautiful gave us a nice plug on her newest video. Go check her out and subscribe. Jim's Picks: Top 10 Song Outros of All Time. Merch, yo. Check it. If you'd like to help support the show… consider subscribing to our YouTube Channel, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (Drew Lane, Marc Fellhauer, Trudi Daniels, Jim Bentley, BranDon, and Roberto).
Rain isn't getting Knicks fans down -- with the ticker-tape parade up the Canyon of Heroes this morning... Gilgo Beach Killer gets life without parole... Teenager dies from injuries after being thrown from horse carriage in Central Park full 429 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:08:52 +0000 T1U3aTJzqR5d2wKRMahJwkNTfuoZLurP news 1010 WINS ALL LOCAL news Rain isn't getting Knicks fans down -- with the ticker-tape parade up the Canyon of Heroes this morning... Gilgo Beach Killer gets life without parole... Teenager dies from injuries after being thrown from horse carriage in Central Park The podcast is hyper-focused on local news, issues and events in the New York City area. This podcast's purpose is to give New Yorkers New York news about their neighborhoods and shine a light on the issues happening in their backyard. 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc.
A Long Island architect and family man pleads guilty to killing multiple women — finally putting a name and a face to a case that haunted New York for more than a decade. But as investigators unearth Rex Heuermann's private "how to get away with murder" playbook and the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit prepares to sit across from him, the real chill comes from how carefully he studied the people hunting him, and how many chances those closest to him had to see who he really was before the bodies were ever found. Subscribe to The Binge today to get this episode ad-free and unlock 60+ true crime series instantly. Subscribe directly at GetTheBinge.com — or if you're listening on Apple Podcasts, tap "Subscribe" at the top of the show page. Listen to CUT, COLOR, KILL discussed in this episode, hosted by Jonathan. Follow Crime Scene on socials! Instagram: @thebingecrimescene | @thebingetruecrime TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebingecrimescene Crime Scene is hosted by Jonathan Hirsch and Cooper Moll. Instagram: @thisisjonathanhirsch | @bycoopermoll Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Gilgo Beach Killer will be sentenced today... Preps underway for tomorrow's ticker-tape parade for the Knicks - today there will be a parade for kids who are fans of the NBA champs... A vending machine in Coney Island sells mystery art full 432 Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:54:58 +0000 fsa5Pqjg0mjCQtNksnc5dkQiOYRqulZ5 news 1010 WINS ALL LOCAL news The Gilgo Beach Killer will be sentenced today... Preps underway for tomorrow's ticker-tape parade for the Knicks - today there will be a parade for kids who are fans of the NBA champs... A vending machine in Coney Island sells mystery art The podcast is hyper-focused on local news, issues and events in the New York City area. This podcast's purpose is to give New Yorkers New York news about their neighborhoods and shine a light on the issues happening in their backyard. 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc.
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AP correspondent Julie Walker reports on the Gilgo Beach killer's pen pal, another jailed murderer, and the crime novels he reads behind bars.
The chilling story of Rex Heuermann: how the alleged Gilgo Beach Killer evaded capture for years, leaving a trail of victims, corruption, secrets, and unanswered questions across Long Island's shoreline. Sponsor: shopify.com/casual - sign up for your $1 per month trial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The three mustaches return to Long Island to conclude their hunt for the Gilgo Beach Killer. After pulling over a dozen bodies from the sand, the Long Island Police Department were able connect at least 8 of the victims to the same culprit. Unfortunately, interdepartmental feuds and corrupt cops derailed the investigation before the killer could be tracked down. Now it's up to an expert criminologist named Dr Laura Pettler to dig through the evidence and uncover the identity of the culprit before he claims another victim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The three mustaches return to Long Island to conclude their hunt for the Gilgo Beach Killer. After pulling over a dozen bodies from the sand, the Long Island Police Department were able connect at least 8 of the victims to the same culprit. Unfortunately, interdepartmental feuds and corrupt cops derailed the investigation before the killer could be tracked down. Now it's up to an expert criminologist named Dr Laura Pettler to dig through the evidence and uncover the identity of the culprit before he claims another victim.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
The three mustaches grab their bathing suits and sunscreen for a relaxing trip to the beach. And there's no beach more suited for true crime enthusiasts than Gilgo Beach in Long Island. Between 2010 and 2011, nearly a dozen bodies were pulled from the sand, most of whom were young escorts from nearby towns. Early on it was clear to investigators that they were on the trail of a serial killer, and they would have to work fast to track down the killer before they struck again. Kick back, grab a tropical cocktail and join us for the first of our two-part series on the Gilgo Beach Killer.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
The three mustaches grab their bathing suits and sunscreen for a relaxing trip to the beach. And there's no beach more suited for true crime enthusiasts than Gilgo Beach in Long Island. Between 2010 and 2011, nearly a dozen bodies were pulled from the sand, most of whom were young escorts from nearby towns. Early on it was clear to investigators that they were on the trail of a serial killer, and they would have to work fast to track down the killer before they struck again. Kick back, grab a tropical cocktail and join us for the first of our two-part series on the Gilgo Beach Killer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Who was Rex Heuermann — really? His ex-wife says he was the one person she could count on. His daughter says he was a loving father who never let his two worlds cross. The FBI's John Douglas says he's a malignant narcissistic sadistic psychopathic serial killer who almost certainly has more victims than the eight he's admitted to. They're all right. And that's what makes this case unlike anything else in modern true crime. The Peacock documentary stripped away the courtroom formality and the legal maneuvering and showed us the raw reality of what happens inside a serial killer's family when the truth finally surfaces. Asa Ellerup learned that women were murdered and dismembered in her basement — then moved back into that basement and started sleeping in the kill room. Victoria Heuermann listed the ages she was when each victim was killed, learned her father never thought about her during the murders, and forgave him on the spot. And Rex, in therapy sessions captured by the documentary, described a four-day kill cycle, admitted to timing his body dumps with a stopwatch, and revealed that sex and violence merged in his mind during adolescence and never separated. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me for an expansive three-part conversation covering every psychological dimension of this family — from Asa's constructed reality to Victoria's impossible reckoning to Rex's mind itself. If you've been following the Gilgo Beach case and you want to understand what the documentary actually means — not just what happened, but why — this series is where you need to start.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeach #AsaEllerup #VictoriaHeuermann #LISK #GilgoBeachKiller #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #HouseOfSecrets #ShavaunScott
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
She was adopted and never felt wanted. Assaulted at sixteen. Attempted to take her own life before she was out of her teens. And then a man named Rex Heuermann showed up and said move in, I'll handle everything. For a woman who had never once felt safe in her own skin, that offer wasn't romance — it was survival. And it sealed her fate for the next three decades. The Peacock documentary on Rex Heuermann gave us something the courtroom never would have — a raw, unfiltered look at the woman standing behind the Gilgo Beach Killer. Asa Ellerup didn't just live with a serial killer. She built her entire identity around him. The family therapist said it plainly: as long as Rex told Asa he was innocent, there was no reaching her. His words overwrote reality itself. So what happens when reality finally breaks through? What happens when the man who was your entire foundation looks you in the eye and says he killed eight women — some of them in your home? Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott breaks down every layer of Asa Ellerup's psychology in this conversation. We get into the trauma history that made her vulnerable, the specific mechanisms Rex used to maintain control without her ever recognizing it, and the question the therapist raised that haunts this entire case — whether Asa will ever truly let Rex go, even now that she knows exactly what he is. This is one of the most psychologically complex figures in modern true crime. Shavaun doesn't flinch from any of it.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeach #AsaEllerup #LISK #GilgoBeachKiller #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #HouseOfSecrets #SerialKiller #ShavaunScott
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
Three perspectives. One serial killer. And a family that will never be the same. The Peacock documentary on Rex Heuermann gave us access that no trial, no courtroom, no press conference ever could have — the private moments when a wife and a daughter learned the full scope of what the man they loved had done. Asa Ellerup's story is one of a woman whose entire life before Rex was defined by trauma — adopted, assaulted, suicidal — and whose entire life with Rex was defined by a reality he constructed for her. The therapist who worked with their family said for Asa, it wasn't denial. It was real. Whatever Rex said became truth. That's not complicity. That's something far more psychologically complex. Victoria Heuermann's story is one of identity destruction — a young woman who mapped her childhood ages against her father's kill timeline, who learned that women were murdered and dismembered ten feet from where she played as a child, and who forgave her father almost immediately because she said she can't move forward unless she does. And Rex's story — told through therapy sessions, jailhouse calls, and the assessment of FBI profiler John Douglas — is the story of a man who built a four-day ritual around murder, who timed his body dumps to the second, and who may still be hiding victims behind a carefully managed confession. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me for a three-part series that goes deeper into the psychology of this case than anything else out there. No shortcuts. No surface-level takes. The full picture.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeach #AsaEllerup #VictoriaHeuermann #LISK #GilgoBeachKiller #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #HouseOfSecrets #ShavaunScott
The family therapist who spent over two years working with Asa Ellerup said something in the Peacock documentary that should change the way every person following this case thinks about Rex Heuermann's ex-wife. She said for Asa, it wasn't denial — it was real. That distinction matters more than anything else that's been said about this woman. Denial implies choice. It implies that somewhere inside, the person knows the truth and is choosing not to face it. But what the therapist described is something different and far more unsettling — a woman whose reality was entirely constructed by her husband. Whatever Rex said became fact. His voice overrode evidence, overrode investigators, overrode DNA. And it wasn't because Asa was weak or foolish. It was because her entire life before Rex had been a series of traumas that left her with no internal foundation to stand on. Adopted, never bonded. Assaulted as a teenager. Suicidal before adulthood. Rex didn't just marry her — he became the architecture of her reality. When the walls came down, she had nothing left to stand on. Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott joins me to go deep on the psychology of Asa Ellerup — what the documentary revealed about the difference between denial and coercive reality construction, why Asa moved into the kill room, and whether there's any psychological path forward for a woman whose entire sense of self was built around a man who murdered eight women in their home. This conversation is going to challenge every assumption you have about what it means to live with a killer and not know it.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeach #AsaEllerup #LISK #GilgoBeachKiller #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #HouseOfSecrets #SerialKiller #ShavaunScott
Rex Heuermann set the terms of his own confession. Before he stood in a Suffolk County courtroom and pleaded guilty to murdering eight women, he arranged private jailhouse meetings with his ex-wife and his daughter. He chose the order. He chose the setting. He decided what they would hear and how they would hear it. Even in the act of admitting to being the Gilgo Beach serial killer, Rex was orchestrating the experience. The Peacock documentary captured what happened in the aftermath of those meetings — Asa Ellerup walking out and saying she believes Rex loved her, Victoria Heuermann forgiving her father almost immediately, and both women returning to the house where seven of the eight murders were committed. It also captured something the public has never seen — extended therapy sessions where Rex described the mechanics of his killing in clinical detail. The four-day cycle. The stopwatch-timed body dumps. The childhood bedroom converted to a kill room. The claim that he can't connect the person in the crime scene photos to himself. And alongside it, John Douglas's assessment that Rex is a malignant narcissistic sadistic psychopath who likely has hidden victims in states where he faces death penalty exposure. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me for a comprehensive three-part series analyzing every person at the center of this case. Asa's psychology. Victoria's reckoning. Rex's mind. No angles left unexamined. This is the definitive psychological breakdown of the Heuermann family — and of the documentary that exposed them to the world.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeach #AsaEllerup #VictoriaHeuermann #LISK #GilgoBeachKiller #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #HouseOfSecrets #ShavaunScott
Rex Heuermann didn't just hide what he was from his ex-wife — he built the world she lived in. Every wall. Every doorway. Every belief she held about who he was and what their life meant. And then he filled that world with a version of himself that made the real Rex invisible. The Peacock documentary revealed how total that control was. The family therapist described a dynamic where anything Rex told Asa became her operating reality. When he said he was innocent, that wasn't just something she believed — it became the only truth her mind could process. Evidence didn't matter. Investigators didn't matter. DNA didn't matter. Rex said he didn't do it, so he didn't do it. That's not stubbornness. That's not loyalty. That's the end result of a man who found a woman with no psychological foundation and poured himself into every crack until he was the only thing holding her together. Asa was adopted and never bonded with her family. She was assaulted at sixteen. She attempted to end her life. Rex saw all of that — and whether consciously or not, he used it. He became her safety. Her anchor. The one person in her entire life who made the chaos stop. And he did it while killing women in the basement of their home. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me to analyze the specific control dynamics Rex Heuermann exerted over Asa — how he maintained a double life not through elaborate deception but through the psychological architecture of the relationship itself, and what the documentary reveals about whether Asa can ever fully separate from the man who defined her existence for three decades.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeach #AsaEllerup #LISK #GilgoBeachKiller #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #HouseOfSecrets #SerialKiller #ShavaunScott
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In a new documentary, Asa Ellerup says her husband, Rex Heuermann, admitted to killing most of his victims inside their Long Island home, including one murder he had not previously been charged with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Rex Heuermann, the Long Island architect suspected in the Gilgo Beach serial murders, stood up in court and admitted to killing eight women over seventeen years. We break down the plea, the DNA evidence that finally caught him, and what this means for the families who waited more than a decade for answers.Sources:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gilgo-beach-serial-killer-suspect-rex-heuermann-expected-plead-guilty-rcna266547https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/11/us/gilgo-beach-killings-rex-heuermann-guiltyhttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/rex-heuermann-pleads-guilty-to-murdering-7-women-and-admits-he-killed-anotherhttps://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/live-updates/rex-heuermann-gilgo-beach-long-island-serial-killer-case-guilty-plea/https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5821815-rex-heuermann-pleads-guilty-to-gilgo-beach-serial-killings/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
**This episode is uneditedOn April 8th, 2026, Rex Heuermann, a 62-year-old Manhattan architect, husband, and father from Massapequa Park, pleaded guilty to murdering eight women on Long Island over a 17-year span. The Gilgo Beach case, one of the longest-running unsolved serial murder investigations in American history, is finally closed.This episode is about how it stayed open for 30 years.It's about Sandra Costilla, killed in 1993 and uncharged for three decades. About Karen Vergata, cataloged as Jane Doe Number 7 until 2022. About Melissa Barthelemy's 15-year-old sister, who got phone calls from Melissa's killer for five weeks after she disappeared. About the Suffolk County Police Department leadership that refused FBI help for over a decade because the chief of police was running his own federal cover-up. About a planning document recovered from a deleted hard drive, a basement vault containing 279 firearms, and a piece of pizza crust pulled from a Manhattan trash can that finally cracked the case open.--------------------Keywords: Gilgo Beach Killer, Rex Heuermann, Long Island Serial Killer, Gilgo Beach murders, Rex Heuermann guilty plea, Long Island murders, Shannan Gilbert, Gilgo Four, Massapequa Park, Suffolk County murders, true crime podcast, serial killer podcast, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Amber Lynn Costello, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Lost Girls, Long Island serial killer arrest, Gilgo Beach victims, We Saw the Devil podcastBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-crime-political-analysis--4433638/support.Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.comPatreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevilDiscord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevilInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast.
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
For nearly three years, Rex Heuermann's defense team threw everything at the wall. Motions to exclude DNA evidence. A push for separate trials. A 178-page omnibus motion challenging the prosecution's entire framework. Every single one was denied. When the accused Gilgo Beach Killer finally entered guilty pleas to seven murders and admitted to killing an eighth victim — Karen Vergata — it marked the end of a legal battle that was already over long before the plea hearing.Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — walks through what the failed motions actually signaled about the strength of the prosecution's case. He explains what DA Ray Tierney's public posture revealed about strategy, what leverage a defense attorney realistically has when seven murder charges are on the table with admissible science backing every one, and what the negotiation behind closed doors likely looked like.Then we pull the evidence apart piece by piece. Prosecutors recovered a deleted planning document from Heuermann's hard drive — allegedly a blueprint for the killings with checklists referencing body disposal and evidence destruction. Over 350 electronic devices were seized. DNA was matched to hairs found on and near victims through whole genome sequencing, a forensic method admitted in a New York courtroom for the first time. The chain of custody started with a discarded pizza crust collected during surveillance and ended with the most consequential DNA match in Long Island criminal history. Faddis identifies which single piece of evidence he believes left Heuermann no option but to plead — and it connects to what prosecutors could prove about intent, not just presence.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeachKiller #LISK #GuiltyPlea #DNAEvidence #GilgoBeach #LongIslandSerialKiller #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast
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One 911 call. Four bodies in the brush. Thirteen years. Yesterday, he pleaded guilty to killing eight women. New episode coming tomorrow. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-crime-political-analysis--4433638/support.Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.comPatreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevilDiscord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevilInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast.
Rex Heuermann has pleaded guilty to eight murders in the Gilgo Beach serial killings, marking a significant turn in this long-running murder investigation. His confession, after years of denials, brings a critical moment of closure in this true crime analysis. We continue to follow this criminal investigation closely, offering insights from a law enforcement perspective. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Crime Talk Store: https://scottreisch.com/crime-talk-store Two disturbing cases now stand at the center of national attention. In this video, we cover the latest major developments in the Gilgo Beach serial killings case, where Rex Heuermann entered guilty pleas in the murders of seven women, and the sentencing phase in the murder of 7-year-old Athena Strand, where jurors are hearing deeply disturbing evidence in court. These cases reveal the darkest side of human cruelty and the painful search for justice by victims' families. We break down the courtroom developments, the charges, and what happens next in both cases. Viewer discretion is advised. This video discusses murder, violence, and disturbing criminal allegations. #TrueCrime #GilgoBeach #RexHeuermann #AthenaStrand #TannerHorner #CrimeNews #CourtroomUpdate #TrueCrimeCommunity
A guilty plea from the accused Long Island Serial Killer resolves seven cases. It doesn't touch the rest. Eleven sets of remains were found along that stretch of Long Island, and authorities have said they don't believe Rex Heuermann — the accused Gilgo Beach Killer — is responsible for all of them.Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — joins me to examine what falls through the cracks when a LISK case of this magnitude ends with a plea instead of a trial. We talk about Shannan Gilbert, whose disappearance triggered the search that uncovered everything and whose case has never been charged to Heuermann. We examine the Bittrolff reversal — prosecutors once attributed Sandra Costilla's murder to a different convicted killer before charging the accused Gilgo Beach Killer — and what that means for investigative credibility.Faddis addresses the systemic question — how the targeting of marginalized women created conditions for someone to allegedly operate as a predator for nearly two decades. He walks through whether the remaining cases stay active or lose momentum once the headline defendant is resolved. And he gives his honest read on whether the families and the community get what they need from a plea, or whether the absence of a public trial leaves a void that won't close.This is the conversation about what comes next — and what doesn't.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeachKiller #LISK #TrueCrimeToday #EricFaddis #ShannanGilbert #LongIslandSerialKiller #JohnBittrolff #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
Investigators surveilling Rex Heuermann recovered a pizza crust the accused Gilgo Beach Killer threw in the trash. It gave them a DNA match to hairs found on and near multiple LISK victims. On his basement hard drive, prosecutors say they found a deleted Word document — allegedly a blueprint for selecting victims, carrying out killings, and avoiding detection.Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — joins me to dismantle both pieces of evidence with the clarity of someone who's handled cases from both chairs. Faddis explains what the Frye hearing that admitted whole genome sequencing actually looked like from inside the courtroom, why the Long Island Serial Killer defense challenged the DNA but not the planning document, and how forensic investigators recovered deleted files from over 350 electronic devices seized from Heuermann's home.We trace the chain from garbage to the most significant DNA match in Gilgo Beach Killer history. We examine how a prosecutor uses alleged "Mindhunter" references in a planning document to establish premeditation. And Faddis gives a direct answer on which single piece of evidence he believes is the reason Rex Heuermann is reportedly pleading guilty.This is the evidence breakdown the LISK case demands. Faddis brings the trial-level analysis most coverage has been missing.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeachKiller #LISK #TrueCrimeToday #EricFaddis #DNAEvidence #PlanningDocument #LongIslandSerialKiller #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
Multiple sources confirm Rex Heuermann — the accused Gilgo Beach Killer — is expected to plead guilty to the alleged murders of seven women whose remains were found across Long Island. For nearly three years, the LISK defense fought the charges at every turn. They lost every fight that mattered.I brought in Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — to explain what happens when the legal walls close in and a defendant runs out of options. Faddis understands this from both sides. He's built cases designed to force pleas, and he's represented clients staring down the same kind of overwhelming evidence the accused Long Island Serial Killer faces.We break down the Gilgo Beach prosecution's approach — how DA Tierney sequenced the charges over time, how the pretrial rulings systematically dismantled the defense strategy, and what it means that Tierney publicly said he wasn't pursuing this plea. Faddis reads between those lines with the precision of someone who's been in that exact situation.We also get into the negotiation itself. What is Brown asking for? What can Tierney offer? What does the judge have to agree to? And we don't skip past the families — the people who were promised a trial and may now receive a hearing and a sentencing date instead. For anyone following the Gilgo Beach Killer case, this conversation is essential.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeachKiller #LISK #TrueCrimeToday #EricFaddis #GuiltyPlea #LongIslandSerialKiller #PleaDeal #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
Rex Heuermann is reportedly expected to plead guilty to seven murders. The accused Gilgo Beach Killer and Long Island Serial Killer maintained his innocence for nearly three years. His defense team lost every major pretrial motion. And now, according to multiple sources, the LISK case is heading toward a plea instead of a September trial.I brought in Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — for the full breakdown. We cover every angle. The prosecution that reportedly forced the Gilgo Beach Killer's hand — how DA Tierney built the case from a 2022 cold case reopening to seven murder charges in under three years. The evidence that made it unwinnable — a deleted planning document, DNA matched through whole genome sequencing for the first time in New York, the pizza crust surveillance. And the questions the LISK plea can't answer — Shannan Gilbert, the remaining victims, the Bittrolff reversal, the families who get a hearing instead of a trial.Faddis has prosecuted murders and defended them. He understands both sides of the Rex Heuermann case with a clarity that cuts through the noise. He explains the legal machinery, the evidentiary weight, the behavioral profile, and the systemic failures behind the Gilgo Beach Killer investigation. And he answers the hardest question: if this case never sees a courtroom, is that justice?This is the conversation the LISK case demands.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeachKiller #LISK #TrueCrimeToday #EricFaddis #LongIslandSerialKiller #GuiltyPlea #DNAEvidence #ShannanGilbert #TrueCrimePodcast
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A deleted Word document allegedly outlining how to carry out the Gilgo Beach killings and avoid detection. DNA recovered from a discarded pizza crust matching hairs found on multiple LISK victims across multiple crime scenes. A Frye hearing ruling that admitted a DNA technology never before used in a New York trial.Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — joins me to walk through the evidence that reportedly ended the Gilgo Beach Killer's fight. Faddis breaks down why the planning document is so devastating from a prosecution standpoint, what whole genome sequencing actually is and why the Long Island Serial Killer defense couldn't get it excluded, and how investigators extracted deleted files from over 350 seized electronic devices.We examine the document's alleged references to "Mindhunter" and how a prosecutor builds a premeditation case from a defendant allegedly studying serial crime investigation methodology. We follow the evidentiary chain from a piece of trash to the DNA match that connected Rex Heuermann to victims spanning years. And Faddis answers the question every attorney following the LISK case is asking — which single piece of evidence tipped the scales toward a plea?If you want to understand what the prosecution was prepared to present at the Gilgo Beach Killer trial — and why it reportedly became a case the defense couldn't take to a jury — this is the conversation.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeachKiller #LISK #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #PlanningDocument #DNAEvidence #LongIslandSerialKiller #WholeGenomeSequencing #TrueCrimePodcast
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
After nearly three years of maintaining his innocence, Rex Heuermann — the accused Gilgo Beach Killer — is reportedly expected to plead guilty to the alleged murders of seven women on Long Island. Every defense strategy his LISK legal team attempted was denied by the court.Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me to walk through what actually forces a defendant's hand when every legal door closes. This isn't speculation. Faddis has been in that room. He's made the case from both sides of the aisle, and he explains the mechanics of how a plea negotiation works when seven murder charges are stacked against you and the evidence has already survived every challenge.We get into DA Tierney's public posture, the defense's failed omnibus motion, what leverage Michael Brown has left at the negotiating table, and whether a judge could still reject the Gilgo Beach Killer's plea. We also talk about the families of the LISK victims — people who have waited over a decade for some form of accountability — and whether a plea gives them closure or robs them of the public reckoning a trial would have provided.Faddis doesn't soften the reality. This is one of the most consequential legal decisions in the history of Long Island, and he treats it with the gravity it deserves.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeachKiller #LISK #HiddenKillers #EricFaddis #GuiltyPlea #LongIslandSerialKiller #TrueCrime #CriminalDefense #TrueCrimePodcast
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A plea answers for seven women. It doesn't answer for eleven. It doesn't explain Shannan Gilbert. It doesn't resolve the fact that prosecutors once said a different convicted killer was responsible for Sandra Costilla's murder before charging the accused LISK instead.Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — joins me to walk through what a Gilgo Beach Killer guilty plea leaves behind. We talk about the families still waiting. The credibility of a prosecution that reversed its own theory on a suspect. The behavioral evidence — the alleged timing of killings when Rex Heuermann's wife and children were away from the Long Island home, the planning document, the internet searches — and what it reveals about the kind of compartmentalized existence the accused Long Island Serial Killer allegedly maintained for years.Faddis addresses whether the remaining LISK cases stay active once the headline defendant is resolved, whether the Bittrolff argument could come back in an appeal, and how the legal precedents set in this case change serial investigations going forward. And he answers the question that sits at the center of everything: if the Gilgo Beach Killer case ends with a plea instead of a trial, is that justice — or just an ending?Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeachKiller #LISK #HiddenKillers #EricFaddis #ShannanGilbert #LongIslandSerialKiller #JohnBittrolff #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
Rex Heuermann — the accused Gilgo Beach Killer and Long Island Serial Killer — is reportedly expected to plead guilty to seven murders after nearly three years of fighting the charges. Every defense motion failed. The evidence was ruled admissible. And now, according to multiple sources, the accused LISK is ready to enter a plea.Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — joins me for an extended conversation covering the entire Gilgo Beach Killer case. We break down the prosecution strategy that reportedly forced the plea, the deleted planning document and DNA evidence that made the case unwinnable, and the questions that remain unanswered even if Rex Heuermann pleads guilty.Faddis brings the perspective of someone who has sat in both chairs. He explains what happens inside a defense when every legal avenue closes. He walks through the Frye hearing that admitted whole genome sequencing for the first time in New York. He examines the behavioral evidence — the planning, the timing, the alleged double life — and what it reveals about the accused Long Island Serial Killer's compartmentalized existence.And he addresses what the Gilgo Beach Killer plea doesn't touch. Shannan Gilbert. The Bittrolff reversal. The remaining LISK victims. The families who get a hearing instead of a trial.This is the complete conversation. Faddis holds nothing back — and neither do I.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeachKiller #LISK #HiddenKillers #EricFaddis #LongIslandSerialKiller #GuiltyPlea #DNAEvidence #ShannanGilbert #TrueCrimePodcast
Rex Heuermann's LISK defense lost every major pretrial battle — DNA admissibility, trial separation, the omnibus motion. Now reports indicate the accused Gilgo Beach Killer is expected to plead guilty to the alleged murders of seven women found on Long Island.Former felony prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis joins me live to break this down in real time. We walk through the prosecution's strategy from the 2022 cold case reopening to the charges that kept stacking — three, then four, then six, then seven — and how DA Ray Tierney methodically built the Gilgo Beach case to leave the defense nowhere to go.Faddis explains the plea negotiation process from the inside. What does a defense attorney actually ask for when the leverage is gone? What does Tierney gain from a plea versus taking the Long Island Serial Killer case to a September trial he was reportedly prepared to win? And what does the judge's role look like when the plea is formally presented — can Judge Mazzei reject it, and under what circumstances would he?We also talk about what's lost when a LISK case of this magnitude resolves without a trial. The families were notified before the public. Some have waited over two decades. Faddis speaks to what a plea provides and what silence replaces when the courtroom never hears the full weight of the evidence against the Gilgo Beach Killer.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeachKiller #LISK #HiddenKillersLive #EricFaddis #GuiltyPlea #LongIslandSerialKiller #TrueCrime #PleaDeal #TrueCrimePodcast
Rex Heuermann is expected to plead guilty to seven murders. But the Gilgo Beach Killer case has always involved more victims than one defendant can account for — and a plea doesn't resolve the rest.Eric Faddis joins me live to examine what's left on the table. We talk about the remaining LISK victims whose cases have never been charged to Heuermann. We dig into the Bittrolff reversal — prosecutors once publicly attributed Sandra Costilla's murder to a different convicted killer, then charged the accused Long Island Serial Killer instead — and what that dramatic reversal means for the credibility of the investigation.We discuss Shannan Gilbert — the woman whose disappearance started the search that uncovered everything — and why her case sits in its own unresolved category. Faddis explains what happens to cold cases when the public pressure disappears after a headline resolution, and whether the alternative suspect argument carries any legal weight going forward.We also get into the behavioral profile — the alleged timing of killings when Heuermann's family was traveling, the planning document, the internet history — and what it tells us about how someone allegedly maintains a compartmentalized life across nearly two decades. And we close on the fundamental question: does a Gilgo Beach Killer plea without a trial serve justice, or does it just serve efficiency?Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeachKiller #LISK #HiddenKillersLive #EricFaddis #ShannanGilbert #LongIslandSerialKiller #JohnBittrolff #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast
The accused Long Island Serial Killer ran out of moves. The Gilgo Beach DNA evidence survived two court challenges. The judge refused to split seven Gilgo Beach murder charges into separate trials. The prosecution had a 723-page evidence inventory, burner phone records, and files from the LISK suspect's own computer that prosecutors described as a planning document for how to kill and avoid capture.So Rex Heuermann is reportedly doing what he's allegedly always done — making a calculated decision while the walls close in.I break down the legal and psychological reasons the accused Gilgo Beach killer is expected to plead guilty to murdering seven women. The sentence doesn't change — life without parole was the ceiling at trial and it's the result of the plea. But the plea controls everything else. It avoids a months-long Gilgo Beach trial. It potentially limits what his family endures. It eliminates appellate challenges on the novel DNA evidence that anchored the entire LISK prosecution. And for the man prosecutors allege was the Long Island Serial Killer — a man whose alleged criminal life was built entirely on compartmentalization and control — it is, arguably, the final act of both.I also cover the broader Gilgo Beach picture — why Andrew Dykes' arrest proved the LISK investigation was never a one-killer story, and what remains unresolved along Ocean Parkway even if this plea goes through on April 8.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LISK #GilgoBeach #RexHeuermann #GilgoBeachKiller #GuiltyPlea #LongIslandSerialKiller #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #GilgoFour #OceanParkway
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
Months ago, both sides of the Gilgo Beach case said no plea deal. The LISK defense attorney said they were preparing for trial. The DA said the same. So what happened between then and now that made the accused Gilgo Beach serial killer reportedly decide to admit to murdering seven women?I walk through the legal collapse of the LISK defense — two failed DNA challenges, a denied severance motion, a 723-page prosecution evidence inventory, and computer files described as a murder checklist. Every strategy the Gilgo Beach defense tried, a judge shut down. The walls didn't just close in. They locked.But here's the part most people following the Gilgo Beach case aren't talking about. The sentence is the same whether he pleads or goes to trial. Life without parole either way. So the plea isn't about the outcome. It's about what a Gilgo Beach trial would have put him and his family through — months of LISK evidence read into the record, search history dissected publicly, his daughter already on record saying she believes he's "most likely" responsible. A plea compresses all of it. For the man prosecutors allege was the Long Island Serial Killer — a man who allegedly organized everything in his life around control — this is the last controlled decision he gets to make.I also dig into the health questions, the Dykes arrest that fractured the Gilgo Beach single-killer narrative, and what this means for the families who've been waiting since the first remains turned up along Ocean Parkway — some since 1993.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#GilgoBeach #GilgoBeachKiller #LISK #RexHeuermann #GuiltyPlea #HiddenKillers #LongIslandSerialKiller #TrueCrime #GilgoFour #OceanParkway