I'm Chanley Painter and this is the Fox True Crime podcast.

For years, the Gilgo Beach murders haunted the shores of New York, leaving families without answers and a killer walking free.

But Rex Heuerman, the architect charged in the deaths of seven women, has changed his plea to guilty.

Joining me today to discuss the legal implications of this plea deal and what it means for the families of the victims is former NYPD

investigator and host of the weekly rap sheet on Fox Nation Paul Morrow. Hey Paul. Hey, Charlie. How are you?

I'm great. And what a day for the Gilgo Beach serial killer, the admitted serial killer,

Paul, did this come to to you as a surprise that he

decided to change his plea? It did. By all indications, he's a very arrogant guy, and I thought

that he was going all the way on this thing, give us a show trial, show us how he was smarter than

all of the rest of us, and ultimately go down

in flames because the evidence was very strong. But apparently he is just smart enough to realize

that he blew it. Okay, he left a mountain of digital evidence. They put the case together against

him using not only digital evidence, which these days juries find just incontrovertible

but also witness testimony and i think he realized he was sunk now why he actually agreed to the

plea deal including this idea that he is going to cooperate with the fbi behavioral analysis unit

to sort of help train them up on the mindset of a serial killer.

We'll have to see how far all of that goes.

And if, in fact, he does keep up his end of things.

But as of now, he quite surprisingly, to my mind, did agree to a plea deal, has allocated

to eight homicides, seven of which he's charged with, and will be sentenced

on 17 June. Yeah, it is incredible. Seven murder strangulations of sex workers from 1993 to

2011, he admitted to plus an extra and eighth victim, as said uncharged today as part of this plea but the

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