Before Heuermann’s arrest, investigators conducted a 12-day search of the Massapequa Park home he shared with Ellerup and their two grown kids.
“I woke up in the middle of the night, shivering,” Ellerup told the New York Post several weeks later. “Anxiety.”
Ellerup said their son Christopher has “developmental disabilities” and he “cried himself to sleep” after his father was arrested.
Daughter Virginia told the NY Post she felt “not human” amid the investigation, with their attorney Macdeonio explaining to the publication she meant that what authorities had “done to them and the family is not even human. They were just complete animals [to investigators]. They treated them like animals.”
But what was important was that she and the kids were together, Ellerup noted.
“That’s really what matters right now,” she said. “That you and me are sitting here together and we will get through this.”
