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Admitting to eight murders like it's, you know, a Tuesday.

Emily, what are we talking about today?

We are going through the plea hearing and then the statements from participants in the plea hearing with regard to Rex Hewerman, who you might have heard referred to as the Long Island serial killer.

Lisk is the abbreviation for that or the Gilgo Beach murders.

Some of the victims are referred to as a grouping because they were located prominently

all around the same time in 2010, though the murders in this case go back to 1993. They are

similar in type. The victims are of similar, you know, look and build. The things you would expect with a serial killer case where the patterns are pretty

noted and significant are present in this case, he was not arrested until 2023.

So in, I think, 2010, as they were starting to recover remains, they were able to track

backwards to the cases that tie together in this case.

There have been books, documentaries, podcasts, and more.

There has been lots of conversation around this case, especially since between a significant

number of victims being located. And they found a number of remains and then expanded the search and found

more remains. And that was, I imagine, locally quite terrifying and left a lot of questions because they were clearly, though not all

from the same period of time, very connected to one another in manner of death, disposal, etc.

So when you look at the time period between, you know, 2010, 2011 to 2023, there was a lot that changed

in the world, a lot that changed in DNA, and a lot that changed in technology. And ultimately,

there were a number of things that led them to the defendant in this case. But they grabbed

his DNA off a discarded crust of pizza. He was a, from everything, I've read, a fairly prominent architect in New York City living on Long Island.

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