Caroline Polisi

By all accounts, he was this family man who led a normal sort of boring suburban existence.

He commuted to the city every day to do his job and provide for his family.

He ran an architectural consulting firm in Midtown Manhattan.

He has a stepson and a daughter with his now ex-wife, Asa Ellerup, who was born in Iceland.

And she would take the children to see her family there in the summers.

And it was during those trips and some others that police believed that Huerman killed the women.

Heuermann's neighbors obviously were shocked when police made the arrest at the house.

One neighbor described him as very quiet, dark, keeping to himself, extremely intelligent, very smart.

You know, I remember reading a New York Times article that reported that

He used to swing an axe in his front yard while he was glaring at neighbors and that parents told their children not to go to his house on Halloween.

I think we all have that one weird neighbor, you know, that we all tell our kids not to go on Halloween.

But none of us obviously expect them to be a serial killer.

Yeah, I mean, to tell you the truth, I wasn't totally surprised.

I think the timing was more surprising than the guilty plea itself.

look, we'll never know for sure why he did it.

But when the evidence in a case is just so strong like this one, and when you lose constantly those pretrial motions like Heuermann did in this case, of course, the logical thing to do would be to plead guilty.

And the prosecution really saves so many resources when you get a guilty plea.

Also, he gives up his right to appeal.

So

saving you so much time and money and really the angst for those victims families and so that gives you a sense of sort of the benefit that both sides get here the defense really essentially saves him from having to sit through all the gory details of what he actually did and he may have wanted to spare his own family from hearing that