Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann learns sentencing fate today
A few dozen members of the media and public gather outside the Suffolk County criminal courthouse in Riverhead on Wednesday more than two hours before sentencing begins. Credit: Newsday/Grant Parpan
Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex A. Heuermann will be in a Riverhead courtroom Wednesday, where he is expected to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering seven women and killing an eighth.
Heuermann pleaded guilty in April to seven murders and admitted to killing an eighth victim, homicides prosecutors have said he committed from 1993 to 2010. He dumped the bodies, in some cases dismembered, in the vicinity of Gilgo Beach, as well as other areas in Suffolk County.
The families of Heuermann’s victims are expected to address what is expected to be a packed courtroom before Heuermann is formally sentenced.
Nicole Fuller is Newsday's senior criminal justice reporter. She began working at Newsday in 2012 and previously covered local government.
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