Gilgo Beach serial killer pleads guilty to killing 8 women according to prosecutors

WNYC News | Apr 8

Prosecutors on Long Island say the accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann has admitted to killing 8 women. The Long Island architect was arrested in 2023 and charged with multiple women, many of them sex workers and burying their remains along Suffolk County’s South Shore over two decades. Heuermann is expected to spend the rest of his life in prison as a result of the guilty pleas.

Robert Kolker is the author of the 2013 book Lost Girls: An American Mystery. It detailed the lives of the Long Island serial killer’s victims and was the basis of the Netflix film with the same title. He joins WNYC's Sean Carlson to talk more about what the guilty pleas mean.

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