RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — A Long Island architect who led a secret life as a serial killer pleaded guilty on Wednesday to murdering seven women and admitted he killed an eighth in a string of long-unsolved crimes known as the Gilgo Beach killings.
Rex Heuermann, 62, entered the pleas in a courtroom packed with reporters and victims’ relatives, some of whom wept as he detailed his crimes for the court.
Heuermann’s guilty pleas bringing finality to a case that bedeviled investigators, agonized victims’ relatives and tantalized a true-crime obsessed public for years.
Heuermann strangled the women, many of them sex workers, over a 17-year span and buried their remains in remote locations, including along an isolated beach highway across the bay from where he lived, authorities said.
He faces life in prison and will be sentenced at a later date.
