- Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann decided to plead guilty to avoid causing his family and the family of his victims further pain, according to his lawyer.
- At a court hearing Wednesday, Heuermann admitted to killing eight women, bringing to an end a decades-long case that haunted Long Island, New York.
- Asked why Heuermann had a change of heart, defense attorney Michael Brown told reporters, “There came a point in this defense where Rex said, ‘I want to plead guilty." He said one of Heuermann’s concerns was sparing the victims’ families and his own family from the ordeal of the case going to trial.
- Brown was also asked whether Heuermann was sorry, to which Brown responded, “I would hope so. ... I would expect at sentencing he would have something to say.”
- Heuermann agreed to cooperate fully with the FBI's behavioral analysis unit as part of his guilty plea.
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