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Rex Heuermann is sentenced to life in prison for New York’s Gilgo Beach serial killings
Heuermann admitted killing eight women, and investigators said DNA, cellphone data and a discarded pizza crust helped solve the cold case.
- On Wednesday, New York architect Rex Heuermann was sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering eight women, concluding an extraordinary investigation into the Gilgo Beach serial killings.
- Heuermann discreetly murdered victims for at least 17 years until 2022, when detectives linked him to a pickup truck and matched DNA from a discarded pizza crust to hair on remains.
- Confronting Heuermann in court, Amanda Funderburg, sister of victim Melissa Barthelemy, told him, "I hope you suffer," while cousin Jasmine Robinson said, "You fill me with so much repugnance."
- As part of his guilty plea, Heuermann agreed to cooperate with the FBI behavioral analysis unit to help catch other serial killers after spending three years in segregated custody.
- Most victims disappeared between 2000 and 2010, with remains found along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach; Melissa Cann, sister of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, described carrying "survivor's guilt" for decades.
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The American serial killer Rex Heuermann, who murdered at least eight women, was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole on Wednesday.
·Berlin, Germany
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Rex Heuermann sentenced to life in prison for New York’s Gilgo Beach serial killings
After decades waiting for justice, relatives of women murdered by New York’s Gilgo Beach serial killer laid into him Wednesday before he was sentenced to life in prison without parole for his admitted crimes.
·Washington, United States
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Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann slammed as ‘small man’ as judge gives max sentence for murder spree
Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to seven murders and confessed to an uncharged eighth. Victims were killed between 1993 and 2010.
·New York, United States
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