For more than a decade, the women whose remains were found along a desolate stretch of Long Island highway had no name attached to their killer. Then, in July 2023, investigators arrested a former Manhattan architect outside his office — and the case that had haunted Suffolk County since the early 1990s finally cracked open.
Rex Heuermann has now admitted he is the Gilgo Beach serial killer, confessing to strangling eight women over a 17-year span and dumping their bodies near the beach. He was sentenced to multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole on June 17, 2026. Here’s ever...
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