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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann sentenced to life in prison without parole

Victims' families in court
Family members of the victims at a court hearing in Long Island, New York, in April. Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/AP

Rex Heuermann, the Manhattan architect who methodically planned and carried out the murders of eight women over at least 17 years on Long Island, was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison without parole.

The sentence, the maximum the New York law allows, was handed down by Judge Timothy Mazzei after a morning of grueling victim’s family impact statements on the effect Heuermann’s murder spree had on the children and relatives of his victims.

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