World 17 Jun 2026

Rex Heuermann, Long Island-based serial killer, sentenced to life in prison

Rex Heuermann, a New York architect who murdered women for at least 17 years until police realized their deaths were the work of a serial killer, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole.

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Rex Heuermann, a New York architect who murdered women for at least 17 years until police realized their. Deaths were the work of a serial killer, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole. The sentencing caps an extraordinary investigation that solved one of New York's most perplexing mysteries. one that began. As a series of seemingly unconnected and largely unmarked disappearances of young sex workers. Over time, it became the focus of true-crime documentaries, books and podcasts after police began discovering the victims'. Skeletal remains along a coastal parkway near Long Island's Gilgo Beach. "You are disgusting. a despicable man, if you are a man at all," the judge said, his voice rising. His ex-wife and two grown children weren't at the sentencing, having said through their lawyers that they'd stay. Away out of respect for the victims' families.

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