{"id":269957,"date":"2026-06-17T19:56:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269957\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T19:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:56:35","slug":"new-yorks-gilgo-beach-serial-killer-rex-heuermann-sentenced-to-life-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269957\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann sentenced to life in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

After decades waiting for justice, relatives of women murdered by New York\u2019s Gilgo Beach serial killer laid into him on Wednesday before he was sentenced to life in prison. He told them: \u201cI am responsible\u201d for the crimes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe words I would say would have no meaning,\u201d added Rex Heuermann, the Long Island architect who lived a secret life of violence for years before admitting he killed eight women.<\/p>\n

The sentencing capped an extraordinary investigation that solved one of New York\u2019s most perplexing mysteries.<\/p>\n

The seemingly unconnected and largely overlooked disappearances of young women became the focus of true-crime documentaries, books and podcasts after police began discovering the victims\u2019 skeletal remains in the sandy scrub along a coastal parkway.<\/p>\n

Heuermann, 62, will have no possibility of parole.<\/p>\n

\"RexRex Heuermann is escorted away after being sentenced at Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, New York, on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n

But \u201ca million years isn\u2019t enough\u201d, Jasmine Robinson, a cousin of victim Jessica Taylor, said. \u201cNothing will ever make this right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After decades waiting for justice, relatives of women murdered by New York\u2019s Gilgo Beach serial killer laid into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[104126,69875,33014,104119,776,104125,104123,104122,9,11,10,952,75732,104120,104121,773,104124],"class_list":["post-269957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-amber-lynn-costello","tag-fire-island","tag-gilgo-beach","tag-karen-vergata","tag-long-island","tag-maureen-brainard-barnes","tag-megan-waterman","tag-melissa-barthelemy","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-ocean-parkway","tag-rex-heuermann","tag-sandra-costilla","tag-shannan-gilbert","tag-suffolk-county","tag-valerie-mack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}