Rex Heuermann, the Long Island architect and family man accused of being the Gilgo Beach serial killer, will appear in court next month to plead guilty, in accordance with Newsday.
Relatives of a few of Heuermann’s alleged victims informed the paper on Thursday, March 26, in regards to the latest development.
If true, it could bring to an end what has been a decades-long nightmare for Long Islanders.
Newsday reports Heuermann will change his plea during a hearing scheduled for April 8.
Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney and Heuermann’s defense attorney, Michael J. Brown, declined to comment on the upcoming guilty plea when contacted by Newsday.
Heuermann, 62, has publicly denied any involvement within the killings since his arrest on July 13, 2023.
Within the case he alters his plea and admits to the murders, Heuermann could be sentenced at a later hearing.
Heuermann, who was married and has two adult children, was arrested in July 2023 outside his Manhattan office in connection to 3 of the Gilgo Beach murders. (His wife, Asa Ellerup, filed for divorce weeks after Heuermann’s arrest.)
Heuermann has since been charged with the murders of Valerie Mack, 24; Jessica Taylor, 20; Megan Waterman, 22; Melissa Barthelemy, 24; Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25; Sandra Costilla, 28; and Amber Lynn Costello, 27.
He has pleaded not guilty to all seven murder charges. Investigators are still attempting to connect Heuermann to 2 other bodies that were found dumped at Gilgo Beach.
Investigators spent weeks at Heuermann’s house, collecting evidence, including a stockpile of guns.
Heuermann is being held on the Riverhead Correctional Facility. A Recent York State Supreme Court judge said that he’s aiming for Heuermann to face trial for all seven homicide charges in September.
Brown recently told reporters his client has been using crutches for little over a month, but didn’t disclose what health issues the suspected killer is coping with.
Earlier this 12 months, Peacock released a documentary about Heuermann and his family called The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets, executive produced by rapper 50 Cent.
The docuseries featured Heuermann’s wife and their kids. Within the doc, Ellerup had difficulty accepting her husband may very well be Long Island’s most infamous serial killer.
“No one deserves what they got. But Rex was not seeing [sex workers]. He’s a family man. He didn’t do that,” Ellerup claimed. “I would wish to listen to it from Rex nose to nose that he killed these girls for me to consider it. My husband never kept me out of anything.”