FILE - Alleged Gilgo serial killer Rex Heuermann is led into courtroom for a Frye hearing at Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, N.Y., April 3, 2025.
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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 has been reading crime novels and gets an occasional visit from his lawyers or family. He also struck up a brief correspondence with Keith Jesperson, the infamous “Happy Face Killer” of the 1990s. That’s according to Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon, who oversees the Long Island jail where Heuermann has been held. He faces life without parole in a state prison when he's sentenced Wednesday. Heuermann pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and since admitted to killing yet another woman.
A Long Island architect who lived a secret life as New York’s Gilgo Beach serial killer is set to hear from a lineup of victims’ loved ones at his sentencing. Rex Heuermann faces the likelihood of a life sentence without the possibility of parole. He's being sentenced Wednesday in Riverhead, New York. Heuermann admitted in April that he strangled the women, many of them sex workers, and dismembered some of their bodies before dumping them on a desolate parkway not far from Long Island’s Gilgo Beach. Police began to suspect a possible serial killer in 2010 after discovering the remains of multiple victims along a remote beach parkway.
