Rex Heuermann is going to prison for life.
The 62-year-old known as the Gilgo Beach serial killer, who pled guilty to killing seven women earlier this year, was sentenced on Wednesday (June 17) to three consecutive life sentences in prison without the possibility of parole, and 100 years to life for their murders.
Judge Timothy Mazzei said “You’re a disgusting, small man. If you’re a man at all. And you’re a coward,” People reported.
Some of the victims’ families applauded as he was taken out of the courtroom, and some chanted “ogre.”
Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney: “I have no doubt this defendant is sorry. He is sorry he got caught.”
The Long Island resident admitted in court in early April to murdering seven women, and confessed to killing an eighth victim, in connection to the long unsolved wave of murders known as the Gilgo Beach serial killings. He admitted to strangling all eight victims, many of whom were sex workers, dismembering some of them, using burner phones to contact them, and wrapping their bodies in burlap before dumping them in remote locations.
The murders reportedly took place over a 17-year period, with many of the victims discovered along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach on Long Island.
The case went unsolved for over a decade, inspiring documentaries and Netflix’s Lost Girls. See more from his guilty admission.
Posted To:Rex Heuermann
