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Rex Heuermann — Suspect in Gilgo Beach Serial Killings | CaseSleuth

Gilgo Beach Serial Killings/Rex Heuermann

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Rex Heuermann

Architect charged with murders of 4 Gilgo Beach victims; additional charges added 2024

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Rex Heuermann

Architect charged with murders of 4 Gilgo Beach victims; additional charges added 2024

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The Gilgo Beach serial killings were part of a series of murders on Long Island, New York, spanning from 1993 to 2011. Many of the victims' remains were found over a period of months in late 2010 and 2011 during a police search of the area along Ocean Parkway, a road near the remote beach town of Gilgo in southern Suffolk County, New York..

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Gilgo Beach Serial Killings

Architect charged with murders of 4 Gilgo Beach victims; additional charges added 2024

The Gilgo Beach serial killings involved the murders of at least eight women whose remains were discovered along Ocean Parkway on Long Island, New York, beginning in December 2010. Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old Manhattan architect, was arrested on July 13, 2023, after DNA from discarded pizza crust linked him to evidence found with the victims. On April 8, 2026, Heuermann pleaded guilty to seven murders and admitted to an eighth, with sentencing scheduled for June 17, 2026.

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