Rex Heuermann sentenced to life for Gilgo Beach serial murders of eight women

—Rex Heuermann, the Long Island architect identified as the Gilgo Beach serial killer, was sentenced Wednesday following his guilty plea in the murders of eight women whose remains were found along the ocean parkway. The sentencing closes a case that spanned three decades of unsolved killings before Heuermann's 2023 arrest. Investigators linked him to the crimes through DNA evidence and surveillance records. The victims, many of whom were sex workers, had been discovered beginning in 2010 during a search for a missing woman.