Overview
- Rex Heuermann, a Manhattan architect, pleaded guilty to killing seven women between 1993 and 2010 and admitted to an eighth murder.
- Sentencing is scheduled for June, and prosecutors are seeking multiple life sentences.
- In court, Heuermann said he hired the women as escorts, strangled them, and left their bodies near Gilgo Beach wrapped in jute sacks.
- Investigators linked him using DNA reported to come from a discarded pizza crust, data from disposable cellphones, and vehicle registration records.
- The case gained national attention after four bodies were found near the beach in 2010, as families long argued police failed to act because most victims were sex workers.