The so-called Gilgo Beach serial killer, accused of strangling and dismembering women and scattering their remains in an exclusive coastal area near New York Citywas sentenced this Wednesday (17) to life in prison, US press outlets reported.
Rex Heuermann, 62, pleaded guilty in April to kidnapping, torture and murder of seven women on Long Island between 1993 and 2010, near New York City.
He also acknowledged being the author of an eighth murderfor which until then he had not been reported.
The Gilgo Beach case perplexed police for years, as the bodies of the victims, most of them sex workers, appeared along the same stretch isolated from the beach, but no suspect was identified.
Heuermann, a New York family man and architect, had never been suspected until his arrest in July 2023.
The investigation turned to him in 2022 after it was discovered that the vehicle in which a victim was seen while missing was in his name.
