Daughter Of 1990s Serial Killer Creates GoFundMe For Asa Ellerup

MASSAPEQUA, NY — While suspected Gilgo Beach killer Rex Heuermann is behind bars in Suffolk County awaiting his eventual trial after being charged with the murders of three women as part of the so-called "Gilgo Four," Heuermann's family tries to put their life back together.

A GoFundMe has been created to help Asa Ellerup, who filed for divorce after the explosive arrest, and the two children, Christopher Sheridan, 33, and her 26-year-old daughter, Victoria Heuermann.

But this page was not set up by a family member or close friend. It was established by a woman whose father was a serial killer in the 1990s.

The "Happy Face" killer was apprehended in 1995. Keith Hunter Jesperson is serving life without parole in Oregon State Penitentiary. While he confessed to killing more than 150 women, eight victims were confirmed.

"My mother and my family were and are victims. We did not know about his double life," Jesperson's daughter Melissa Moore wrote on GoFundMe.

Started on July 29, the page has received more than $40,000 in donations.

Heuerman pleaded not guilty last month to killing Amber Costello, Melissa Barthelemy and Megan Waterman, whose remains were found more than a decade ago along Ocean Parkway.

Moore said she waited for approval from Ellerup to ask for donations.

"We don't know the financial and verbal abuse she may have suffered," Moore wrote.

All funds will go through the law firm representing Ellerup, directly to her as the beneficiary, she said.

"Then [it's] for her to decide how to disperse according to her needs. She can direct on what is her highest priority: Basic needs for herself and adult children, to restore the home to whole and any other need she may have that is not listed," Moore said.

Along with a donation of at least "a dollar," Moore asks visitors to share the link on social media and make a comment in support that will be sent to Ellerup