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Alexa Herrera is a digital producer with the CBS News New York web team. She previously worked with WUFT and WTSP in Florida as a digital producer. She's a Long Island native. Rex Heuermann was ...

Confessed serial killer Rex Heuermann was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison without parole for killing eight women, whose remains were discovered along Gilgo Beach. He pleaded guilty in April ...

A disgusted Long Island judge slammed Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann Wednesday, calling the hulking fiend a coward before hitting him with three life sentences and telling officers to “get ...

• Rex Heuermann, the Long Island serial killer who fatally strangled eight women, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Wednesday. • Victims’ families gave emotional ...

Heuermann entered guilty pleas in April to three counts of first-degree murder and four counts of second-degree murder. Heuermann pleaded guilty to the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, Maureen ...

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — The Manhattan architect who led a double life as the Gilgo Beach serial killer came face to face Wednesday with the families of his victims before he was sentenced to multiple life ...

The saga of the Gilgo Beach serial murders that haunted Long Island for more than three decades is set to come to a close Wednesday — when confessed killer Rex Heuermann is shipped off to prison for ...

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — Keith Jesperson, the "Happy Face" serial killer who has been trading prison letters with Gilgo Beach killer Rex Heuermann, is warning that the hulking former architect could face a ...

The decision on Wednesday brought an end an infamous case that took investigators more than a decade to solve. By Corey Kilgannon Rex Heuermann, 62, the serial killer on Long Island who admitted in ...

About 33 years since he claimed his first victim, Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann was sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday as part of a court hearing that represented the end ...

For more than a decade, the women whose remains were found along a desolate stretch of Long Island highway had no name attached to their killer. Then, in July 2023, investigators arrested a former ...