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Good riddance.<\/p>\n

The ex-wife of Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann said Thursday that he got what he had coming \u2014 even as the hulking brute was shipped upstate to start serving a life sentence for butchering eight sex workers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe believes Rex got what he deserves,\u201d Bob Macedonio, the lawyer for the killer\u2019s former spouse, Asa Ellerup, told The Post. \u201cShe believes the sentence was 100% appropriate and her thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heuermann, 62, was sentenced to three life terms in Suffolk County court Wednesday after pleading guilty to strangling his victims to death between 1993 and 2010, torturing and dumping the bodies.<\/p>\n

The confessed killer was taken from the Suffolk County jail on Thursday morning transferred to the Green Haven Correctional Facility in Dutchess County, the county sheriff\u2019s office and state officials said. <\/p>\n

\u201cRex Heuermann is currently undergoing admission processing at Green Haven Correctional Facility, one of the department\u2019s designated intake facilities,\u201d a rep for the state Department of Correction and Community Supervision said in an email.<\/p>\n

Authorities have not revealed which prison will ultimately be Heuermann\u2019s forever home. <\/p>\n

The 6-foot-4 Massapequa Park architect confessed to killing eight women and dumping their bodies along desolate stretches of Long Island, where they were found starting in December 2010.<\/p>\n

The cases remained unsolved until the investigation was reopened in 2022 and led to Heuermann\u2019s arrest the next year \u2014 partly thanks to DNA from a pizza box he tossed in the trash.<\/p>\n

In April, Heuermann confessed to killing Amber Lynn Costello, 27; Megan Waterman, 22; Melissa Barthelemy, 24; and Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, who were famously known as the \u201cGilgo Four\u201d \u2014 as well as Valerie Mack, 24; Jessica Taylor, 20; and Sandra Costilla, 28, the first victim killed in 1993.<\/p>\n

He also copped to killing Karen Vergata, 34, whose 1996 murder had not been linked to him.<\/p>\n

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All but one of his victims were mercilessly bound and tortured to death in a \u201ckill room\u201d in the family\u2019s basement while Ellerup and the couple\u2019s two children were out of town. <\/p>\n

At an emotional sentencing hearing in Riverhead on Wednesday, 13 relatives of the slain women faced the killer for the first time, delivering heart-wrenching victim impact statements. <\/p>\n

\u201cLook at me while I\u2019m talking,\u201d\u00a0Barthelemy\u2019s sister, Amanda Funderburg, told Heuermann.<\/p>\n

She was just 15 when her older sister was murdered in 2009, and forced to endure cruel, threatening and mocking phone calls from Heuerrmann describing the slaying. <\/p>\n

\u201cI was forced to live with crippling anxiety, depression, PTSD, and destroyed nervous system constantly staring at my phone,\u201d Funderberg told the killer. \u201cBecause of the several times you had called me from my sister\u2019s phone telling me she was a whore.\u201d <\/p>\n

Judge Timothy Mazzei, who wiped tears from his eyes during the victims\u2019 statements, then asked Heuermann if he had anything to say, snapping at him, \u201cStand up!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere are no words I can say, but I am responsible for what was said in this room today,\u201d Heuermann said. \u201cThe words I would say have no meaning and I\u2019m going to leave it there at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then it was the judge\u2019s turn.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that you\u2019re sorry you got caught. I assume that you\u2019re sorry for what you did to your wife and children,\u201d Mazzei said. \u201cYou\u2019ve been described as a very big man but you\u2019re a disgusting and despicable small man if you\u2019re a man at all and you\u2019re a coward.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The judge then turned to court officers \u2014 \u201cGet him out of here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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