Gilgo Beach Serial Killings

A Manhattan architect intends to plead guilty to Long Island’s infamous Gilgo Beach serial killings. That's according to two people familiar with the case who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. They said Rex Heuermann plans to plead guilty at a court hearing on April 8. Heuermann was arrested in 2023. He is charged in the deaths of seven women. Several of them were found buried in the scrub by a beach highway. Prosecutors say DNA evidence, cellphone data and eyewitness accounts connect Heuermann to the victims. The victims were all young women involved in sex work. His lawyer and the district attorney declined to comment.

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.