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Rex Heuermann to plead guilty in the Gilgo Beach killings, ending long search for a serial killer
https://wtop.com ^ | April 8, 2026 | The Associated Press

Posted on 04/08/2026 7:51:20 AM PDT by Beowulf9

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — A Long Island architect accused in a string of long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday, closing a case that bedeviled investigators, agonized victims’ relatives and tantalized a true-crime obsessed public for years.

Rex Heuermann, 62, is charged with murdering seven women, many of them sex workers, over a 17-year span. A guilty plea would put him in prison for the rest of his life.

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To: Steely Tom

“My wife caught me with a sex worker” sounds almost harmless.


21 posted on 04/08/2026 11:03:15 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: central_va

It’s like “MSM” meaning “men having sex with men,” or “MAPs” meaning “Minor Attracted Persons.” Just playing with words, doesn’t fool anyone.


22 posted on 04/08/2026 11:07:56 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: lee martell

Step-son had to do a few months in county lock-up over some DUI’s and something else (basically calling the judge a lunatic). [I told him, Be nice! But did he listen? Oh, 773H NO!]

He said food was mac’n’cheeze every day, sometimes more than once-a-day. And, Yeah, it was just about “all you can eat”.


23 posted on 04/08/2026 12:43:49 PM PDT by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: Beowulf9

Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann will team with FBI in ‘Mindhunter’-style deal digging into the mind’s dark side

https://nypost.com/2026/04/08/us-news/gilgo-beach-serial-killer-rex-huermann-will-team-with-fbi-in-mindhunter-style-deal/


24 posted on 04/08/2026 5:41:20 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

I wonder if he will confess he killed Shannon Gilbert. He told one of his dates when he said to her do you think the that the LISK killed her she asked him and he said ‘yes’.


25 posted on 04/08/2026 6:27:43 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

2 key reasons why Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann flipped and confessed to vicious murders

https://nypost.com/2026/04/08/us-news/why-gilgo-beach-serial-killer-rex-heuermann-confessed/


26 posted on 04/08/2026 6:29:47 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

Yeah. I kind of figured he’d think of his wife and kids. He had a dual personality it seems. Complicated psych, interesting but too bad this stuff happens.

Everybody is ruined in this case. One of the conditions is he cannot be further charged for other cases which makes me hope he opens up and talks about ones unknown or unproven.


27 posted on 04/08/2026 6:43:59 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: misterdarcey

Yep.


28 posted on 04/08/2026 7:47:21 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Rlsau1

If they dropped that guy from a scaffold that head would pop right off.

Course that might not be considered a bad thing.


29 posted on 04/08/2026 7:49:46 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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