‘Gilgo Serial Killer’ Pleads Guilty to Long Island Murders (1)

Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to murder charges of seven women and admitted to killing another in a series of crimes that for years have haunted Long Island.

The killings by Heuermann, 62, dated back to the early 1990s and spanned almost two decades, according to the Suffolk County district attorney. In a statement on Wednesday, the office referred to Heuermann as the “Gilgo Serial Killer” and said he was expected to be sentenced to consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Rex A. Heuermann at court in Riverhead, New York, on April 8.

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The Gilgo Beach killings gripped the New York area after the remains of multiple women were found ...