Gilgo Beach victim’s son claims suspected serial killer’s family turned horror into profits ahead of plea

The lad of a unfortunate of the accused Gilgo Beach serial slayer has filed a suit against Rex Heuermann and members of his household implicit the alleged torture and dismemberment of his parent – conscionable days earlier helium is expected to plead blameworthy to the brutal killings of 7 women.  

On Monday, lawyer John Ray filed a wrongful decease suit connected behalf of Benjamin Torres, the lone kid of Valerie Mack, according to tribunal documents obtained by Fox News.

The civilian filing alleges that Mack’s decease deprived Torres of his "mother’s care, guidance, protection, nurture, nine and economical support." 

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Accused Long Island serial slayer Rex A. Heuermann appears with his attorney, Michael Brown, during a proceeding successful Suffolk County Court successful Riverhead, New York, U.S., July 17, 2025. (James Carbone/Reuters)

Mack, a 24-year-old from Philadelphia, vanished erstwhile her lad was conscionable 6 years aged successful 2000. Her partial remains were discovered successful Manorville, New York aft a radical of hikers stumbled upon a suspicious achromatic container that November.

According to the lawsuit, Mack was "tortured ferociously" earlier allegedly being killed and dismembered by Heuermann.  

REX HEUERMANN'S FAMILY KEPT GRUESOME PIECE OF EVIDENCE, SOURCE SAYS

An undated photograph of Valerie Mack, 1 of 11 victims whose remains were discovered during the hunt for Shannan Gilbert adjacent Gilgo Beach successful New York. She was dismembered, and constabulary recovered much of her assemblage parts successful Manorville, astir 50 miles away. (Suffolk County Police Department)

As a result, Torres is seeking unspecified "recovery for the wrongful torture and execution of Valerie Mack, for the terror, restraint, pain, mutilation, and dismemberment inflicted upon her earlier and aft death, for the concealment and mutilation of her remains, and for the profound and prolonged harm thereby inflicted," the suit said.

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Alleged serial slayer Rex A. Heuermann is escorted into Judge Tim Mazzei’s courtroom astatine Suffolk County Court successful Riverhead for a frye proceeding connected Thursday, July 17, 2025. (James Carbone/Newsday)

The suit besides aims to question compensation from Heuermann’s ex-wife, Asa Ellerup, and girl Victoria Heuermann stemming from profits made from the Peacock documentary, "Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets." 

The household received implicit $1 cardinal from the documentary, according to Newsday.

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"Asa Ellerup and Victoria Heuermann astatine immoderate constituent successful clip knew of, concealed, deliberately ignored, oregon consciously avoided learning of worldly facts concerning the assault, murder, dismemberment, concealment, and disposal of Valerie Mack," the suit added. 

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The suit besides addresses New York’s two-year deadline for wrongful decease lawsuits to beryllium filed, arguing the bounds should beryllium waived for Torres owed to his property astatine the clip of his mother’s execution and authorities’ hold successful identifying her remains.

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Heuermann was charged with Mack’s decease successful precocious 2024, marking the seventh and last unfortunate prosecutors accidental helium killed betwixt 1993 and 2010. 

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He is expected to plead blameworthy to each 7 counts of execution arsenic portion of a plea woody offered by Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney. He is owed backmost successful tribunal connected Wednesday.

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Heuermann is accused of sidesplitting Mack, Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Jessica Taylor, Sandra Costilla and Amber Lynn Costello. 

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Tierney, and the attorneys for Heuermann, Ellerup and Torres did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment. Ellerup's lawyer is expected to code the suit astatine a 4 p.m. quality conference.

Fox News' Jennifer Johnson and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.