Rex Heuermann, Long Island-based serial killer, sentenced to life in prison

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Source: Associated Press, via CNBC

Rex Heuermann, Long Island-based serial killer, sentenced to life in prison

Heuermann was scheduled for September trial before changing plea earlier this year

The Associated Press · Posted: Jun 17, 2026 12:10 PM EDT | Last Updated: 13 minutes ago

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Natile Dilea, a member of a sex-workers rights group, stands in line to enter the Arthur M. Cromarty Criminal Court Complex ahead of a court sentencing for convicted murderer Rex Heuermann on Wednesday in Suffolk County, New York. (Ryan Murphy/The Associated Press)

Rex Heuermann, a New York architect who murdered women for at least 17 years until police realized their deaths were the work of a serial killer, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole.

The sentencing caps an extraordinary investigation that solved one of New York's most perplexing mysteries — one that began as a series of seemingly unconnected and largely unmarked disappearances of young sex workers. Over time, it became the focus of true-crime documentaries, books and podcasts after police began discovering the victims' skeletal remains along a coastal parkway near Long Island's Gilgo Beach.

After decades waiting for justice, relatives of the slain women laid into him Wednesday. ... "You fill me with so much repugnance, I can't stand it," Jasmine Robinson, a cousin of victim Jessica Taylor said.

Amanda Funderburg, victim Melissa Barthelemy's sister, urged Heuermann to look at her as she spoke. ... He glanced in her direction, but his eyes were slightly downcast. ... "I hope you suffer," said Funderburg, who recounted getting a taunting phone call from him days after Barthelemy disappeared, when Funderburg was 15 years old.

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Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-ny-rex-heuermann-sentencing-9.7238336

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Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

https://www.joemygod.com/2026/06/serial-killer-of-ny-sex-workers-gets-life-without-parole/

[twodogsbarking]

1. There will never be a happy ending. Ending it does offer some comfort I hope.

It seems that evil only exists in the human animal.

[mdbl]

2. Sounds like justification for the death penalty to me

I know there are those here who disagree with that. To that I will say, ok let's compromise. Put him in solitary confinement the rest of his life.

[rampartd]

3. lifetime critic of capital punishment

i have reached the trump era conclusion "throw the switch before trump can pardon him."

[The Grand Illuminist]

4. So I pay for his 3 squares and a bed.