Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Rex Heuermann’s Family Considering Move to Iceland: ‘They Want Their Privacy’

The family of Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann is trying to move on.

Now that the former architect, 62, was sentenced on June 17 to three consecutive life prison terms without the possibility of parole, his ex-wife Asa Ellerup and children, Victoria Heuermann and Christopher Sheridan, are looking to start over.

In an interview with the Daily Mail published Tuesday, June 23, Ellerup’s attorney Bob Macedonio revealed, “They did talk about going to Iceland.” (Ellerup is reportedly of Icelandic descent.)

“I don’t think Victoria wants to move,” Macedonio noted. “Christopher would go wherever his mom does.”

“They also talked about maybe moving down to South Carolina,” he said, explaining that Heuermann has a plot of land in Chester County, next to his brother’s property. However, according to Macedonio, Heuermann’s siblings have since distanced themselves from Ellerup and the kids.

“They need a fresh start,” Macedonio explained of the Long Island family.

As In Touch previously reported, Ellerup — who was married to Heuermann for more than two decades — revealed in Peacock’s documentary Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets that she sleeps in the home where he murdered multiple women, including in the same room where he dismembered their bodies.

“I am here because I do feel spiritual,” she explained in the doc. “I’m trying to say spiritually in my own way that I am really sorry for what these victims went through.”

According to Macedonio, the family is “waiting” to see “financially where they can relocate,” adding: “Their whole life is here. They don’t know anything else. They’re simple people.”

“Asa is looking forward to now starting to put the pieces of their lives back together,” he said. “They want their privacy, to move on.”

Macedonio also revealed to the Mail that both Ellerup and Victoria are considering writing books about their experience.

Victoria, he said, “is interested in getting her story out there,” adding: “She has a completely different perspective as the child — as opposed to the wife — of the serial killer. She viewed this man as her hero, her dad who was there for her communion and Girl Scout meetings. She looked up to him so [she] went to work for him.”

Heuermann previously admitted to the murders of Amber Lynn Costello, Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Jessica Taylor, Sandra Costilla and Valerie Mack as well as Karen Vergata (though he was not charged in her death).

Heuermann strangled his victims, many of whom were sex workers, over 17 years and buried their bodies in remote locations.

Many were reported to be found along a beach highway close to where he lived.