US architect pleads guilty to Gilgo Beach killings

Rex Heuermann, 62, will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole at a later date

Rex Heuermann at Suffolk County Court in April 2024. Heuermann strangled the women, many of them sex workers, over a 17-year span and buried their remains in remote locations. Picture: James Carbone/Newsday via AP, File

A US architect who led a secret life as a serial killer pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and admitted he killed an eighth in a string of long-unsolved crimes known as the Gilgo Beach killings.

Rex Heuermann, of Long Island, New York, entered the pleas on Wednesday.