HORRIFIC AND CRUEL

Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Describes His Heinous Crimes

Rex Heuermann gave horrifying new details on his brutal murders.

Long Island’s most notorious murderer admitted Wednesday to killing and dismembering eight people over the course of several years as he pleaded guilty to the crimes. Rex Heuermann, 62, said he strangled his victims and tied them up in burlap. The confessions were met with audible gasps in the courtroom. Prosecutors said he would serve three life sentences with no possibility of parole. Heuermann, who was an architect, had previously maintained his innocence and his defense team tried to contest DNA evidence linking him to the crimes. Between 2010 and 2011, 10 bodies were found along Gilgo Beach in Long Island, though not all of them are believed to be connected to one killer. Heuermann’s neighbor previously described him as a “regular guy who goes to work, has kids in the local school and in a good neighborhood.” Prosecutors say he killed his victims in the basement of his home in Massapequa Park, about an hour’s drive from Manhattan. They also say he kept a Tinder account on a burner phone and contacted sex workers hundreds of times. The police investigation attracted widespread media attention and spawned several true-crime documentaries. Heuermann was arrested in 2023. He is scheduled to be sentenced on June 17.