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Rex Heuermann to be sentenced in New York’s Gilgo Beach serial killings

  • By PHILIP MARCELO - Associated Press

A Long Island architect who lived a secret life as the Gilgo Beach serial killer is being sentenced in the deaths of eight women. Rex Heuermann faces life in prison without the possibility of parole when he goes before a judge Wednesday in Riverhead, New York. Heuermann admitted in April that he strangled the women, many of them sex workers, and dismembered some of their bodies before dumping them on a desolate parkway not far from Long Island’s Gilgo Beach. Police began to suspect a possible serial killer in 2010 after discovering the remains of multiple victims along a remote beach parkway.

Gilgo Beach killer writes to other jailed murderer, reads crime novels behind bars, sheriff says
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Gilgo Beach killer writes to other jailed murderer, reads crime novels behind bars, sheriff says

  • By PHILIP MARCELO and JULIE WALKER - Associated Press
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The Manhattan architect who lived a secret life as the Gilgo Beach serial killer has spent the past three years alone in a segregated cell. Rex Heuermann has been reading crime novels and gets an occasional visit from his lawyers or family. He also struck up a brief correspondence with Keith Jesperson, the infamous “Happy Face Killer” of the 1990s. That’s according to Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon, who oversees the Long Island jail where Heuermann has been held. He faces life without parole in a state prison when he's sentenced Wednesday. Heuermann pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and since admitted to killing yet another woman.