Benjamin Torres lost his mother when he was six years old. Valerie Mack disappeared in 2000, and her dismembered remains were found in Manorville that same year — unidentified for two decades. Rex Heuermann has now pleaded guilty to her murder. But for Torres, the guilty plea opened a new chapter — a wrongful death lawsuit that names not just Heuermann, but his ex-wife Asa Ellerup and their daughter Victoria Heuermann as defendants. The complaint alleges the two women knew about or concealed the crimes, lived with access to a secured vault-like room in the basement of the Massapequa Park home, and collected over a million dollars from a Peacock documentary built on the notoriety of the murders. The plaintiff’s attorney, John Ray, has argued publicly that the family could not have been unaware in a house of roughly 1,300 square feet. The defense has fired back hard. Ellerup’s attorney called the lawsuit reckless and completely unsupported by the facts. He pointed out that the daughter was approximately three years old when Valerie Mack was killed — yet the complaint accuses her of participating in concealment. Prosecutors have never wavered from the position that Heuermann acted alone and timed the killings for when his family was away. And neither woman has ever been charged with a crime. I go through the full complaint — the allegations of willful blindness, the hair evidence being reframed by the plaintiff, the unjust enrichment claims over the documentary money, the statute of limitations challenge, and the question nobody has a clean answer to: can a family’s proximity to a serial killer become its own form of legal liability? That’s the case a court is going to have to decide. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #GilgoBeach #AsaEllerup #RexHeuermann #ValerieMack #VictoriaHeuermann #LISK #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #GilgoBeachKiller #LongIslandSerialKiller