Rex Heuermann, a 62-year-old former architect from Long Island, pleaded guilty to seven murders and admitted to an eighth in the infamous Gilgo Beach serial killings. He confessed to strangling the victims between 1993 and 2010 and dumping their remains along Long Island beaches and roads.
He was arrested in July 2023 in Manhattan and will receive multiple life sentences without parole at his June 2026 sentencing.
The accused grew up in Nassau County after his birth in 1963 and had worked in the city since 1987. The killings started in 1993 when Sandra Costilla died in the Hamptons during that year.
Police discovered the first remains in 2010 while searching for a missing woman and linked the architect to a green pickup truck in 2022. Detectives used a discarded pizza crust to match his DNA to the victims finally.
Investigators found a vault with nearly 300 weapons inside his basement floor and the suspect used burner phones to lure his victims before their sudden disappearances occurred.
