Gilgo Beach Serial Killings

Asa Ellerup, left and her daughter Victoria Heuermann arrive outside court as Rex Heuermann, accused in Long Island’s infamous Gilgo Beach serial killings, is expected to plead guilty, Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, N.Y.

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Rex Heuermann pleads guilty to murder charges and admits he killed 8 women in the Gilgo Beach case

Rex Heuermann pleads guilty to murder charges and admits he killed 8 women in the Gilgo Beach case

A Long Island architect has pleaded guilty 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 entered the pleas on Wednesday in a courtroom packed with reporters, police and victims’ relatives. His decision brings finality to a case that bedeviled investigators, tantalized the public and spawned true-crime documentaries, podcasts and a Hollywood movie. Authorities say Heuermann killed the women over a 17-year span. Many of them were sex workers whose deaths received little attention until their remains were found buried together along an isolated beach highway. Heuermann faces life in prison and will be sentenced at a later date.