Gilgo Beach serial killer sentenced in court for murder

Families Remember Victims, Blast Killer in Gilgo Beach Case

Family members of the victims of Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann showed up to his sentencing on June 17 to deliver victim impact statements memorializing their loved ones and blasting Heuermann. Heuermann, 62, of Massapequa Park, pleaded guilty to the murders of seven women between 1993 and 2010 on April 8. On that same day, he admitted to murdering an eighth. The victims in this case are Karen Vergata, Sandra Costilla, Jessica Taylor, V…

Gilgo Beach serial killer sentenced in court for murder

As a kid in Brooklyn, going to the beach meant Coney Island. We left there in 1951 for West Babylon in Suffolk County when my dad got a job in the kitchen of Republic Aviation in Farmingdale, Long Island. In my sophomore year of high school, I managed to buy a 1947 Chevrolet convertible for $25 that I tricked out as a kind of beach buggy. The Robert Moses Causeway was only a couple of years old, and the long bridge made beaches that once require…