The estranged wife of accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann said her two children “cry themselves to sleep” following his shocking arrest — that’s left their Long Island home a complete wreck inside.
In an exclusive interview with The Post Monday, Asa Ellerup, 59, said she’s been riddled with anxiety after investigators spent 12 days ripping up her Massapequa Park home in their search for evidence in the alleged slayings.
The damage is so bad, she said, she doesn’t even have a bed to sleep in.
“I woke up in the middle of the night, shivering,” a still-shocked Ellerup said. “Anxiety.
“My children cry themselves to sleep. I mean, they’re not children. They’re grown adults but they’re my children, and my son has developmental disabilities and he cried himself to sleep,” she continued about the emotional toll the stunning case has had on her kids.
Her daughter, Victoria Heuermann, meanwhile, has expressed feeling “not human” in wake of the mess left behind.
Asked what she meant, Ellerup’s lawyer, Bob Macedonio, chimed in, “She meant what they’ve done to them and the family is not even human. They were just complete animals. They treated them like animals.”
Ellerup said that even though the house seems unlivable, “It’s the only thing I got.
“We did get another chair out from the basement and upstairs so me and my son can sit and talk. He’s so distraught and doesn’t understand, and as a mother, I have no answers for him.
“But I said, ‘We’re together,’” Ellerup said. “‘That’s really what matters right now. That you and me are sitting here together and we will get through this.’”
Ellerup, her special-needs son, Christopher Sheridan, 33, and her 26-year-old daughter, Victoria Heuermann, were suddenly forced out of their ranch-style home after the hulking architect was arrested and charged July 13 with three grisly cold-case killings.