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Michael R. Sisak and Philip Marcelo

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Rex heuermann to plead guilty in the gilgo beach killings ending long search for a serial killer | History Defined

Gilgo Beach Serial Killings - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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.

Rex Heuermann, 62, is charged with murdering seven women, many of them sex workers, over a 17-year span. A guilty plea would put him in prison for the rest of his life.

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