Rex Heuermann: The Evidence That Finally Ended It
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🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
For nearly three years, Rex Heuermann said not guilty. Seven women. Seven charges. Every time, not guilty.
According to multiple sources confirmed by the Associated Press, NBC, CNN, and Fox News, that is expected to change on April 8. He's expected to plead guilty to all seven Gilgo Beach murders and accept life without the possibility of parole. The families have been called. The September trial is almost certainly over before it started.
I've been covering this case for a long time, and I want to walk you through everything — not just the plea, but the evidence that made it inevitable and the story behind the story that most coverage is moving past too quickly.
A pizza crust pulled from a Manhattan trash can cracked this open. A murder manual — Microsoft Word document, all capitals, sections titled "Body Prep" and "Post Event," created in 2000, updated for years, recovered after he tried to delete it — left the DA saying he'd never seen anything like it in his career. Fake identities. Burner phones registered under "Andrew Roberts" and "Thomas Hawk." A Tinder account under those aliases. More than 500 contacts to sex workers, reaching out to at least 60 women. One of those phones was in his pocket when they arrested him. And according to prosecutors, he kept making those contacts even after investigators had already identified him as a suspect.
From that same Gmail account, he allegedly searched the Gilgo Beach investigation over 100 times — including, per court documents: "Why hasn't the Long Island serial killer been caught." He was tracking the case from inside his own home while his family slept upstairs.
His daughter Victoria says she believes her father most likely did it. His ex-wife called him her hero. DNA linked to both of them was found on five of seven victims — transferred through ordinary household objects, without their knowledge. And when they arrested him and mentioned his $6,000 watch wasn't in his property, his response was: "I guess I won't be needing that."
A guilty plea closes the legal chapter. What it doesn't close is a lot harder to name. This episode covers all of it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. Here now, Tony Brucey. |
| 0:07.6 | Somewhere in the last few days, phone rang. Now, then another one. And many more after that. |
| 0:16.4 | Seven families, people who have spent years living inside a grief that most of us will never fully |
| 0:22.0 | understand. Thank your lucky stars. Got a call telling them that the man accused of taking |
| 0:26.9 | something very precious from them is expected to walk into the Suffolk County courtroom and say a word |
| 0:32.5 | he's refused to say for at least three years. Guilty. |
| 0:39.2 | Rex Heron, |
| 0:42.0 | the Long Island serial killer, |
| 0:44.4 | the Gilgo Beach killer, |
| 0:46.2 | at least one of them. |
| 0:50.5 | As we know, there's more than one out there. |
| 0:52.9 | One of them, the 62-year-old Long Island architect, the suburban commuter, the husband, |
| 0:59.9 | the father, is expected to change his plea. |
| 1:05.6 | According to multiple sources, familiar with the case confirmed by the Associated Press, |
| 1:10.5 | NBC, CNN, Fox News, |
| 1:12.1 | and nearly every major outlet covering the story. Heerman has agreed to plead guilty to the murders |
| 1:16.8 | of seven women. The families have been notified. His own family has been notified the |
| 1:22.4 | September trial. The one that was supposed to put everything in front of a jury is probably not going to happen. |
| 1:33.0 | I want you to sit with something before we go anywhere else. His daughter, his own daughter, |
| 1:38.8 | remember, Victoria, has said publicly that she believes her father is most likely the Gilgo beat serial killers. |
| 1:45.7 | Just kind of come around to it. |
| 1:47.0 | So, yeah, if you watch the doc that Fiddy put out and his ex-wife, Asa, Elrop, who filed for divorce days after his arrest later appeared in documentaries and called him a hero. |
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