Rex Heuermann, a 62‑year‑old architect from Long Island, has pleaded guilty to murdering eight women in connection with the long‑unsolved Gilgo Beach serial killings that spanned nearly three decades.
In a packed courtroom in Riverhead, New York, he reversed years of denial and admitted responsibility for the deaths that had baffled law enforcement and haunted families since the 1990s. He faces life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the fatal attacks on young women, many of whom were working as escorts when they disappeared.
