Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann forced to face victims’ families for first time at sentencing

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Rex Heuermann, a Manhattan architect living on Long Island, was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for the Gilgo Beach serial murders after admitting to killing multiple women in a decades-old crime series that had gone unsolved until his 2023 arrest. During his sentencing, families of victims confronted him directly and made impact statements, bringing long-awaited resolution to the case. The sentencing concluded one of the region's most extensive serial killer investigations in recent decades.