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A Therapist on Why Asa Ellerup Defended Rex Heuermann Until the Day He Confessed

The most dangerous kind of erosion leaves no bruises and makes no noise. It works through small compromises that feel reasonable in the moment and catastrophic only in retrospect. And it can last decades without the person inside it ever realizing what has happened.

This episode puts two cases side by side. Asa Ellerup was married to Rex Heuermann for 27 years and says she had no knowledge of the crimes he pleaded guilty to. Eric Richins told his family his wife Kouri would be to blame if he turned up dead — and still could not make himself leave.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott explains how agency erodes so completely that confronting reality becomes psychologically impossible, why the presence of children makes it exponentially harder, and what separates Asa’s experience from that of Eric Richins — a man who could see the danger with total clarity and still could not move. Scott recently explored this on her Substack, Spotlight on Psychology. The question she asks at the end is one every listener needs to sit with.

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