被指控的纽约吉尔戈海滩连环杀手Rex Heuermannadmitted周三在法庭上承认谋杀了八名女性，并认罪。
Heuermann是纽约市的一名建筑师，他于2023年被捕，起初他对杀害7名女性的罪行不认罪。检察官说，17年来，他一直以性工作者为目标，并在长岛的吉尔戈海滩附近抛尸。对他的审判定于9月。
"你认为认罪比接受审判对你更有利吗?"法官蒂莫西·马泽伊问道。
“是的，法官大人，”休曼回答道。
萨福克县地方检察官雷·蒂尔尼说，62岁的休曼同意连续服三个无期徒刑，然后再服四个25年有期徒刑。他不会面临与八名受害者有关的其他起诉，但必须与美国联邦调查局合作。
他的判决定于6月17日。
Heuermann穿着黑色西装，双手被铐在背后，承认他谋杀了Melissa Barthelemy，Megan Waterman和Amber Costello，他们的尸体在Gilgo Beach附近的海洋公园大道上被发现。
"你用同样的方式杀死每个受害者，也就是勒杀?"蒂尔尼问道。
“是的，”休曼以冷静的态度回答。
赫曼还承认掐死了桑德拉·科斯蒂拉、瓦莱丽·麦克、杰西卡·泰勒和莫林·布雷纳德-巴恩斯。
Heuermann还承认了第八起谋杀:34岁的Karen Vergata。他没有被正式指控与Vergata的死亡有关，但作为认罪协议的一部分，他承认了这一点。
检察官说，当局认为Vergata在1996年2月失踪时是一名陪护人员。检察官说，她的一些遗骸于1996年4月在长岛的火岛上被发现，另外一些遗骸于2011年4月在长岛的托贝海滩被发现。
当赫曼承认杀人时，几名受害者的亲属小声抽泣着，有人看到他们在抹眼泪。
霍伊曼的前妻阿萨·埃勒鲁普和他的女儿出席了听证会。
埃勒鲁普在座位上身体前倾，手握着她面前的椅背。埃勒鲁普和她的女儿坐在法庭的后排，挤满了受害者的亲属和调查人员，他们已经为此案努力了几十年。
“我的想法和祈祷与受害者及其家人同在，”埃勒鲁普在庭后说。“他们的损失是无法估量的。”
埃勒鲁普的律师鲍勃·马塞多尼奥说:“她不愿相信这个和她结婚27年的男人，也就是维多利亚的父亲，会做出这些令人发指的行为。”。
辩护律师迈克·布朗表示，认罪并与美国联邦调查局合作的决定完全属于霍伊曼。
“当雷克斯说‘我想认罪’时，这种辩护就有了意义，”布朗说，并补充说，承认自己的罪行给休曼带来了“巨大的解脱感。”
布朗说，在6月份的判决中，休曼可能会有更多的话要说。
达·蒂尔尼在庭后的新闻发布会上说，霍伊曼“走在我们中间，扮演一个普通的郊区父亲，而实际上，他一直痴迷地将无辜的妇女作为死亡的目标”。
萨福克县警察局长凯文·卡特琳娜称霍伊曼是一个“虐待狂，没有灵魂，杀人不眨眼的怪物。”
“对那些家庭来说:没有人能取代被夺走的生命，”卡特琳娜说。“……但我们希望这能带来某种程度的安慰。”
吉尔戈海滩杀人案二十年来一直没有得到解决，直到萨福克县地方检察官办公室、纽约州警方和美国联邦调查局在2022年首次通过他的雪佛兰雪崩(Chevrolet Avalanche)确定了Heuermann的嫌疑人，这是一辆在长岛稀疏购买的独特的皮卡。
检察官说，他们从包裹一些受害者的粗麻布上提取了一根头发，还从Heuermann曼哈顿办公室外垃圾桶里的比萨饼皮上提取了DNA。
Heuermann使用化名与数十名性工作者交流，并收集了大量的酷刑色情资料。检察官说，他保留了一份杀人的“蓝图”，其中包括供应品清单、“弃尸地点”的位置，以及“下次考虑击中颈部”的提醒
Heuermann的受害者可以追溯到1993年，当时Costilla被杀。据警方称，最后一名女性，27岁的科斯特洛于2010年9月失踪。
Gilgo Beach murders: Rex Heuermann admits to killing 8 women
AccusedGilgo Beach, New York, serial killer Rex Heuermannadmitted to the murders of eight women in court on Wednesday as he changed his plea to guilty.
Heuermann, a New York City architect, was arrested in 2023 and initiallypleaded not guiltyto killing seven women. Over 17 years, he targeted sex workers and dumped their bodies near Long Island's Gilgo Beach, prosecutors said. His trial had been set for September.
"Do you feel it’s in your best interest to plead guilty rather than go to trial?" Judge Timothy Mazzei asked.
"Yes, your honor," Heuermann replied.
Heuermann, 62, agreed to serve three consecutive life sentences followed by four consecutive sentences of 25 years-to-life, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said.He will face no other prosecution in connection with the eight victims but must cooperate with the FBI going forward.
His sentencing is set for June 17.
Standing in a dark suit with his hands shackled behind his back, Heuermann admitted he murdered Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello, whose bodies were found along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach.
“You killed each victim in the same manner, namely strangulation?” Tierney asked.
“Yes,” Heuermann answered in clinical fashion.
Heuermann also pleaded guilty to strangling to deathSandra Costilla, Valerie Mack, Jessica Taylor and Maureen Brainard-Barnes.
Heuermann also admitted to an eighth killing:34-year-old Karen Vergata. He was not formally charged with Vergata’s death, but admitted to it as part of the plea agreement.
Authorities believe Vergata was working as an escort when she went missing in February 1996, prosecutors said. Some of her remains were found in April 1996 on Long Island's Fire Island, prosecutors said, and additional remains were recovered in April 2011 on Long Island's Tobay Beach.
Several of the victims’ relatives sobbed quietly and were seen wiping tears as Heuermann admitted to the killings.
Heuermann’s ex-wife,Asa Ellerup, and his daughter attended the hearing.
Ellerup leaned forward in her seat, gripping the back of the chair in front of her.Ellerup and her daughter sat in the back row of the courtroom packed with relatives of victims and investigators who have labored over the case for decades.
"My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families," Ellerup said after court."Their loss is immeasurable."
“She never wanted to believe the man she was married to for 27 years, the father of Victoria, was capable of these heinous acts,” Ellerup’s attorney, Bob Macedonio, said.
Defense attorney Michael Brown said the decision to plead guilty and cooperate with the FBI belonged solely to Heuermann.
“There came a point in this defense when Rex said, ‘I want to plead guilty,’” Brown said, adding that admitting his guilt brought Heuermann “a huge sense of relief.”
Brown said Heuermann would likely have more to say at sentencing in June.
Heuermann “walked among us, play acting as a normal, suburban dad, when in reality, all along, he was obsessively targeting innocent women for death,” DA Tierney said at a news conference after court.
Suffolk County Police Commissioner Kevin Catalina called Heuermann a “sadistic, soulless, murderous monster.”
“To the families: No one can ever replace the lives that were taken,” Catalina said. “… But we hope that this brings some measure of solace.”
The Gilgo Beach killings went unsolved for two decades until the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office, New York State Police and the FBI first identified Heuermann as a suspect in 2022 through his Chevrolet Avalanche, a distinctive pickup truck sparsely purchased on Long Island.
From there, prosecutors said they compiled DNA from a hair lifted from burlap used to wrap some of the victims and from pizza crust in the trash outside Heuermann’s Manhattan office.
Heuermann used an alias to communicate with dozens of sex workers and to amass an extensive collection of torture pornography.Prosecutors said he kept a "blueprint" of his killings that included a list of supplies, locations of "dump sites" and reminders to "consider a hit to the neck next time."
Heuermann's victims date back to 1993, whenCostilla was killed.The final woman, 27-year-old Costello, went missing in September 2010, according to police.
