Rex Heuermann is sentenced to life in prison for New York’s Gilgo Beach serial killings
Heuermann admitted killing eight women, and investigators said DNA, cellphone data and a discarded pizza crust helped solve the cold case.
- On Wednesday, New York architect Rex Heuermann was sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering eight women, concluding an extraordinary investigation into the Gilgo Beach serial killings.
- Heuermann discreetly murdered victims for at least 17 years until 2022, when detectives linked him to a pickup truck and matched DNA from a discarded pizza crust to hair on remains.
- Confronting Heuermann in court, Amanda Funderburg, sister of victim Melissa Barthelemy, told him, "I hope you suffer," while cousin Jasmine Robinson said, "You fill me with so much repugnance."
- As part of his guilty plea, Heuermann agreed to cooperate with the FBI behavioral analysis unit to help catch other serial killers after spending three years in segregated custody.
- Most victims disappeared between 2000 and 2010, with remains found along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach; Melissa Cann, sister of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, described carrying "survivor's guilt" for decades.
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Findings of corpses on a beach in the U.S. state of New York gave investigators more than a decade of riddles. Now an architect has been convicted of the murder of eight women. He led a double life.
American serial killer Rex Heuermann has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the so-called Gilgo Beach murders of eight young women. The case is known in part from the Netflix documentary 'Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer'.
COURTROOM INSIDER | Gilgo Beach victims confront Rex Heuermann in emotional hearing
Tonight on “Courtroom Insider,” family members of eight women killed by Rex Heuermann confront him in court and he speaks before being sentenced to life in prison. The Gilgo Beach sentencing hearing was emotional and Nate Eaton has all the details. Watch in the video player above.The post COURTROOM INSIDER | Gilgo Beach victims confront Rex Heuermann in emotional hearing appeared first on East Idaho News.
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