Until last month, the neighbors never saw much of the family living in the rundown house on First Avenue in Massapequa Park on Long Island.
But in the five weeks since the authorities charged the house’s owner, Rex Heuermann, in the Gilgo Beach serial killings, his wife and children have become unlikely fixtures in their neighborhood.
The family — Mr. Heuermann’s wife, Asa Ellerup, 59, and their children, Victoria, 26, and Christopher, 33 — slipped out of the house in July just before crowds of reporters and gawkers descended and investigators began to hunt for evidence in a search that lasted nearly two weeks.
But Ms. Ellerup and the children soon returned and quickly became a daily presence outside the house, sitting together on the front porch or working to put the place back together.
She declined to speak to a reporter who recently stopped by.
Persons:
Rex Heuermann, Heuermann’s, Asa Ellerup, Christopher, —, Ellerup
Locations:
Massapequa, Long, Victoria