Rex Heuermann – the Gilgo Beach serial killer – was sentenced to life in prison without parole in a New York court yesterday. The 62-year-old Manhattan architect pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and admitted to the killing of an eighth in April.
The killings are said to have begun in 1993, with women going missing in Long Island, New York, until the 2010s. After a lengthy investigation, detectives finally linked his vehicle to the killings in 2022, and DNA testing of a discarded pizza crust saw him arrested and charged in July 2023.