Heuermann pleaded guilty to murdering seven women in the Gilgo Beach serial killings.

Long Island architect Rex Heuermann, 62, pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and admitted to killing an eighth in the long-unsolved Gilgo Beach serial killings, resolving a case that haunted investigators and devastated families for years. He confessed to strangling the victims, many of whom were sex workers, and dismembering some before disposing of their bodies. Heuermann faces life in prison without parole and is scheduled to be sentenced in June.