"He doesn't seem uncomfortable in his cell," Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon said. "No emotion, no despair."

The Manhattan architect who lived a secret life as the Gilgo Beach serial killer has spent the past three years alone in a segregated cell

Rex Heuermann struck up a brief correspondence with Keith Hunter Jesperson, the infamous ‘Happy Face Killer’

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"He doesn't seem uncomfortable in his cell," Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon said. "No emotion, no despair."

A Long Island architect who lived a secret life as New York’s Gilgo Beach serial killer is hearing from a lineup of victims’ loved ones at his sentencing.

Rex Heuermann was a quiet architect who lived with his family in Long Island and commuted to Manhattan for work. Then a discarded pizza crust led to his arrest in 2023, linking…

Detectives linked him to victims through DNA from a discarded pizza box.