Rex Heuermann, 62, the serial killer on Long Island who pleaded guilty in April to murdering eight women in the so-called Gilgo Beach killings, was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison, bringing an end to a case that took investigators more than a decade to solve.
State Supreme Court Justice Timothy P. Mazzei, sentenced Mr. Heuermann to multiple terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole, under the conditions of the plea deal Mr. Heuermann agreed to in April.
The sentence was delivered after an hourlong session of impassioned statements from roughly a dozen loved ones of Mr. Heuermann’s victims.
In the courtroom, some of them faced Mr. Heuermann and yelled at him in anger. Others coolly focused on the memory of the victims. Some described how the trauma of the killings led to years of therapy.
Mr. Heuermann, who had maintained his innocence since his arrest in July 2023, stunned followers of the case by abruptly pleading guilty in April. His lawyer, Michael J. Brown, attributed the decision, in part, to a desire to spare the victims’ loved ones and Mr. Heuermann’s own family the pain of a lurid trial.
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