Hey everyone. Welcome back to Crime Weekly News. I'm Derek LaVasser.

And I'm Stephanie Harlow. And as you can see from the title, Rex Heurman has pleaded

guilty to killing seven women between 1993 and 2011. He also admitted to killing an eighth

victim in a series of murders that came to be known as the Gilgo Beach serial killings.

This is something that everyone has been covering for a long time now. And I think most people had already came to the

conclusion that he was responsible for it. This was something that I did a special on ID with

Nancy Grace. And it was something she was fascinated by not because of the killings. The killings

are obviously tragic, but it was the manner in which he was caught.

And we're going to talk a lot about what this means going forward. Could there be more victims and

all that? And Stephanie's going to weigh in on that. But I do think there's something here with

Rex's case specifically that is a testament to not losing hope and not assuming that the original

investigation was done right. Because as we've

come to learn, it wasn't really some new breaking technology or science that helped solve

this case. Yes, it was an assistance with DNA. That's ultimately what connected him once he was

identified. But it was more so just one detective going through the

initial statements, going through the initial police reports, and finding something that had

been missed, something that they've had all along. And it's good and bad, like it's a good story

that they got them, but it does make me wonder if they had found this sooner, would we have all these victims?

And that's the troubling part of all of this.

Yeah.

Wasn't it his pizza crusts, if I remember properly?

Yeah.

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