US EditionRex Heuermann set to plead guilty in the Gilgo Beach killings, ending long search for a serial killer
The plea would avert a September trial and could bring a life sentence without parole in a 15-year investigation, sources said.
- On Monday, Benjamin Torres, the son of murder victim Valerie Mack, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann, his ex-wife Asa Ellerup, and daughter Victoria Heuermann.
- This litigation precedes Heuermann's expected guilty plea on Wednesday, which would avert a September trial and culminate a 15-year investigation into the killings of seven women.
- Attorney John Ray, representing Torres, alleges the family profited from the crimes by participating in a Peacock documentary, arguing they "concealed, deliberately ignored, or consciously avoided" material facts.
- Defense attorney Robert Macedonio stated his clients, Ellerup and Victoria, "had no involvement whatsoever in any of the alleged crimes" committed by the suspect.
- Reports indicate the plea may also address the 1996 killing of Karen Vergata, potentially increasing the total count of victims in a case that began in 2010.
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Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann returning to court, may change plea to guilty: Sources
Alleged serial killer Rex A. Heuermann appears inside Judge Tim Mazzei’s courtroom with his attorney Michael Brown at Suffolk County Court in Riverhead for a frye hearing on July 17, 2025 in Riverhead, New York. (Photo by James Carbone-Pool/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Accused Gilgo Beach, New York, serial killer Rex Heuermann might change his plea to guilty and admit to the murders at his scheduled court appearance on Wednesday, sources familiar …
Accused Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Expected to Plead Guilty
The suspect behind the infamous Gilgo Beach murders is expected in court Wednesday to change his plea to guilty, according to a source familiar with the matter. Rex Heuermann is accused of killing seven women and discarding their remains in a remote stretch of Long Island over nearly two decades. NBC’s Emilie Ikeda reports for TODAY.
NY man to plead guilty in Gilgo Beach murders, ending long search for serial killer
A Long Island architect accused in a string of long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday, closing a case that bedeviled investigators, agonized victims’ relatives and tantalized a true-crime obsessed public for years.
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