Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann's ex-wife makes eye-catching display of support for him at latest court appearance

Gilgo Beach serial slayer Rex Heuermann's estranged woman wore her engagement ringing for nan alleged six-time murderer's latest tribunal appearance. 

Dressed casually successful a achromatic blouse, ray bluish trousers and pink-colored sneakers, Asa Ellerup appeared calm arsenic she entered nan Suffolk County Criminal Courthouse successful Riverhead.

She was accompanied by her lawyer Robert Macedonio, different personnel of her ineligible team, and her affectional support dog, Stewie 'Stuart' by her side. Her girl Victoria was not present.  

The tribunal proceeding was a procedural 1 and outlined caller information and accusation group to beryllium submitted arsenic grounds against Heuermann, who was besides coming for Tuesday's hearing. 

Heuermann did not speak during nan proceeding arsenic his defense lawyer Michael Brown stood astatine his side. He appeared older and grayer than astatine nan clip of his arrest. 

At 1 point, Heuermann was seen nodding his caput arsenic he appeared to look successful nan guidance of wherever his ex-wife was seated successful nan backmost of nan courtroom.

The mother-of-two had her trademark acheronian sunglasses complete her eyes, and aft Judge Mazzei ended nan day's proceeding Ellerup rushed retired pinch Stewie by her broadside arsenic a swarm of photographers tried to speak pinch her. Ellerup smiled astatine 1 point, but did not respond to anyone's questions.

Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney held a property convention aft nan proceeding reviewing what was provided to nan defense followed by a Q&A. 

He explained immoderate of nan find successful detail. 'We person six murders which are alleged  to person been made by this suspect truthful we look guardant to doing that truthful each of nan underlying lawsuit activity for each of those murders,' he said.

He explained really broad nan task is going backmost to nan first execution successful 1993, 2003, 2007, 2009 and 2 successful 2010. Then providing missing persons files, telephone work, laboratory work, underlying data, forensic and physics evidence.

'All nan activity of investigation teams - each of those notes each of those notebooks, nan detectives worked connected it. Maine, Connecticut wherever missing persons first originated. The NYPD. Under our NYS Discovery Law we person to supply each azygous portion of paper. We person to do that and we person to beryllium we person each azygous portion of paper.

A proceedings day has not yet been set. 

Heuermann's lawyer Michael Brown besides said extracurricular nan courthouse.

He said his client 'wants his time successful court.'

'I stood successful beforehand of you folks a twelvemonth agone and I said he wants his time successful court. He still wants his time successful tribunal and he wants his trial,' Brown said.

'He is dealing pinch it arsenic champion arsenic he can. He understands he can’t alteration nan circumstances of his situation for now but wants his time successful court.

When Brown was asked what Heuermann does each day, he responded that he fills his days by reviewing nan find that he has been capable to do connected a computer. He also  spends his clip astatine nan rule room that he has entree too. He said he besides has gait an hr aliases truthful everyday.

He said he speaks that he and Asa Ellerup pass often and that his girl Victoria has visited him successful prison.

Though Ellerup shook her caput and did not want to talk astir her ex-husband aliases nan lawsuit she did show DailyMail.com that Stewie had been a rescue from a shelter retired successful nan Hamptons.

Her lawyer chimed successful that Stewie is her boy Christopher's dog. 

Over nan past year, Christopher has been pictured respective times stepping nan Labrador Chihuahua operation by DailyMail.com extracurricular his Massapequa Park home.

During nan chaos of today's tribunal proceeding, Stewie did not look to mind nan fuss that everyone was making complete him - successful and extracurricular nan tribunal building - and was well-behaved, well-adjusted and smiley. 

Ellerup's squad moreover joked that he is going to beryllium Instagram famous.  

'We are training him to beryllium a work dog,' Ellerup said, who shared that they sewage a 'trainer for nan house.'

Macedonio intervened 'they person to person a circumstantial task.'

He added: ‘Now he tin spell to hotels, we don’t person to committee him anymore. The Marriott wouldn’t return him successful past clip they went to Florida and it costs them 800 to 1,200 to committee him for nan weekend.'

Though Ellerup remarked that Stewie 'does person a batch of nosy astatine nan boarding place,' and seemed amused erstwhile a personnel of her ineligible squad asked if he had a 'girlfriend.'

Heuermann was arrested successful July and initially charged pinch sidesplitting Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, and Amber Lynn Costello 27. In February, he was besides charged pinch nan execution of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25.

The women were recovered wrapped successful burlap and buried on nan distant agelong of Ocean Parkway connected Long Island's South Shore complete a decade ago.

Heuermann, an architect, has pleaded not blameworthy to each counts and presently remains successful jailhouse awaiting trial.

In April, officials searched a Manorville area wherever nan partial remains of Gilgo Beach victims Jessica Taylor and Valerie Mack were recovered much than 20 years ago.

State and region constabulary officials descended connected Heuermann’s dilapidated, single-family location successful Massapequa Park connected Long Island and executed a 2nd hunt warrant.

In June, he was indicted by a expansive assemblage successful June for nan murders of 20-year-old Jessica Taylor successful 2003 and 28-year-old Sandra Costilla successful 1993.

Investigators linked him to nan 2 victims by DNA grounds aft a 2nd hunt warrant was executed astatine his Long Island Home.