June 17, 2026, 10:48 p.mJune 17, 2026, 10:48 p.m
After decades of investigation, a 62-year-old near New York has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of eight women. Judge Timothy Mazzei announced this in a court on Long Island.
Rex Heuermann led a double life.Image: keystone
The New York architect Rex Heuermann admitted in April that he had led a double life for decades: As a father, he commuted from a suburb on Long Island to work in the metropolis and was successful as an architect – while he also repeatedly hired sex workers when his wife was away and then strangled them and dumped their bodies on Long Island. This often happened on Gilgo Beach, which is why Heuermann is also known in the USA as the Gilgo Beach serial killer.
For years, the investigators in the case had no trace of the perpetrator, despite several corpses being found, until finally more and more clues led to Heuermann. The decisive factor was, among other things, his DNA on discarded pizza leftovers. (hkl/sda/dpa)