Gilgo Beach murders latest: Family of accused serial Killer Rex Heuermann arrives at court for his expected plea
The man accused of killing a string of women and leaving their remains along a New York beach is set to admit to a murder spree that terrorized a community for more than a decade, according to reports.
Rex Huermann, the accused Gilgo Beach serial killer, is due to appear in a Long Island court Wednesday where it is expected that he will plead guilty to a series of murders, reversing his earlier not guilty plea.
Prosecutors allege that the 62-year-old former architect killed seven women, some of them sex workers, over a 17-year period. Newsday reported that Huermann will also plead guilty to an eighth homicide: the 1996 killing of a Manhattan mother.
The anticipated plea change comes just five months before his trial was set to begin. A conviction could have sent him to prison for life.
Between 2010 and 2011, authorities say that 11 sets of human remains were found in Gilgo Beach, located about 45 miles from New York City.
Investigators spent years probing the killings with little progress, until a breakthrough came in January 2023, when DNA from a discarded pizza box outside Heuermann’s Manhattan office matched a hair found near a victim’s remains.
The DNA match — in addition to witness accounts and digital evidence — led to his arrest six months later. Since then, Heuermann has maintained his innocence.
