'Beyond what words can express': Family of Valerie Mack makes first victim impact statement

Ed and Joann Mack are being called up to speak on behalf of their adoptive daughter Valerie, who was killed by Heuermann in 2000.

"Mr. Heuermann you have done horrendous things to Valerie's earthly body, but you have not touched the real Valerie," Ed Mack said.

Mack said Valerie will be at Jesus' side when he enters heaven.

JoAnn Mack told Heuermann what he did "is beyond what words can express."

"Even when justice is done it cannot replace what you have taken from us," Joanne Mack said. She told Heuermann he never reached their daughter's soul despite all the harm he did to her body.

Valerie Mack was dismembered. Her remains were found first in Manorville in 2000 and more than a decade later at Gilgo Beach.

"She had hopes and she had dreams and you took it all away from her," Joanne Mack said. "You took away a lifetime for [her son] of his mother's love."

Valerie Mack's sister Danielle said, “He doesn’t have humanity to experience remorse."

A district attorney's employee read a statement from Benjamin "Aaron" Torres, the son of Valerie Mack. "I am the son of Valerie Mack," the statement read. "The amount of pain and loss you have caused in my life is indescribable."

"I will leave you with this," Torres concluded in his statement. "You reap what you have sown. No one is exempt from that universal truth."

By Grant Parpan

grant.parpan@newsday.com@GrantParpan

Grant Parpan covers Suffolk County courts and federal courts for Newsday. A Long Island native, he joined Newsday in 2022.