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GILGO UPDATE: Rex Heuermann Pleads Guilty

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True Crime

4.519.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Summary

The lead suspect in the Gilgo Beach Killings - 62 year old former architect Rex Heuermann - has now pleaded guilty.

So, with a trial off the table in the Long Island Serial Killer saga, join us for an update on what investigators found that finally nailed Heuermann - forcing him to confess. 

Then stick around and revisit our two-part episode on this harrowing case that haunted Long Island for decades.

Plus, join us on next week’s Under the Duvet - over on Patreon - for a look at the impact this has all had on Heuermann’s own family.

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In 2010, Shannan Gilbert made a series of frantic 911 calls as she ran through the streets of Oak Beach, Long Island, screaming: “They’re trying to kill me”. Then she vanished. 

A few months later a body was found - but it wasn’t her. And neither were the next 9 sets of human remains they found along Ocean Parkway. 

Now, over a decade later, with the arrest of Rex Heuermann - the police believe they’ve found the elusive Long Island Serial Killer.

But the questions still stand; Why did it take so long to catch him - and was this the work of a lone serial killer, or multiple men using the same dumping ground?

 We’ll look at Heuermann’s family life, his background - and delve into the 33-page bail document that offers us an in-depth look at how investigators finally caught this notorious, modern American serial killer.

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five. This year, I was bracing myself for a huge trial. That of Rex

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Heuraman, the Gilgo Beach serial killer. The case that we covered in depth last year in a

1:52.9

two-parter. But honestly, I needn't have worried because on Wednesday the 8th of April in a

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Suffolk County courthouse. He pleaded guilty to murdering

2:01.5

seven women, Melissa Bartholomew, Megan Waterman, Amber Costello, Marine Braynard Barnes, Jessica

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Taylor, Valerie Mack and Sandra Castilla. And also, he pleaded guilty to intentionally causing

2:14.2

the death of an eighth, Karen Vergata. In exchange for the guilty plea, Heuraman won't be charged with Karen's murder,

2:21.6

but he will still spend the rest of his life behind bars.

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Heurman's lawyer claimed that his client had decided to plead guilty

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