Is accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann about to plead guilty?
· Toronto Sun
The scene on the remote beaches on the South Shore of Long Island, N.Y. was nothing less than a sickening horror show.
After the first body was found, cops began finding more and more and more.
Visit sport-tr.bet for more information.
It was the beginning of the end of a long nightmare where sex workers would simply vanish without a trace. And then the bodies were finally discovered.
Initially pleaded not guilty
Homicide detectives arrested a Manhattan architect named Rex Heuermann , 62, in the grisly crimes and now, reports say the hulking man will plead guilty in April to murdering seven women over 17 years.
Heuermann is expected to change his plea from not guilty to guilty on April 8.
Two sources told Newsday that a plea deal is being hashed out by the Suffolk County District Attorney and the accused serial killer’s legal eagle.
Heuermann — who lived in adjacent Nassau County — was arrested in July 2023 in connection to the series of cold case murders of women on Long Island.
Murders stretch to 1993
He was initially charged with the slayings of Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Amber Lynn Costello, 27, and Megan Waterman, 22, who disappeared between 2009 and 2010.
Later, the married architect was implicated in the death of a fourth woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, who was murdered in 2007.
The victims were called the Gilgo Four after their bodies were found near Gilgo Beach in 2010.
But as the investigation intensified, Heuermann was linked to two additional cold cases in June 2024. The new victims were Sandra Costilla, 28, killed in 1993, and Jessica Taylor, 20, murdered in 2003.
He was also charged in the death of a seventh woman, Valerie Mack, 24.
According to the New York Post, the families of his victims and his own family have been informed that a deal is in the works. The alleged serial killer can still opt out.
It is one of the most grisly series of slayings that the New York area has seen in years. The victims’ remains were discovered decomposed and put in sacks, not far from Heuermann’s suburban home.
According to cops, DNA evidence, cellphone data and evidence discovered in Heuermann’s Massapequa home connected him to the victims.
When his now ex-wife, Asa Ellerup, and their two kids were out of town on family treks, homicide detectives said, that’s when Heuermann would allegedly kill.
His trial had been slated for September. Initially, his legal team tried had tried to split the case into five trials and worried the “volume and complexity” of evidence and testimony would overwhelm jurors if the seven cases were tried together.
The defence gambit was denied and the judge bought the prosecution’s argument that the evidence overlaps.
Pizza crust DNA nailed him
According to cops, Heuermann was first identified as the possible killer in 2022. A witness who spotted his pickup truck and a pizza crust recovered during police surveillance sealed the arrest.
Cellphone records revealed he had been in contact with several of the victims before their disappearances. Also bolstering the cops’ case were his twisted internet searches that turned up a trove of violent torture porn along with inquiries on the murders.
In 2025, detectives recovered files they described as a “blueprint for the killings.”
That included checklists with “reminders to limit noise, clean the bodies and destroy evidence.”
@HunterTOSun