Gilgo Beach serial killer sentenced to multiple life terms after victims’ families blast him as ‘demon’

Rex Heuermann admitted to killing eight women, putting an end to an investigation that had puzzled authorities and left victims’ families in agony.

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — The Manhattan architect who led a double life as the Gilgo Beach serial killer came face to face Wednesday with the families of his victims before he was sentenced to multiple life terms at an emotionally wrenching hearing.

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One by one, relatives of the women Rex Heuermann admitted to strangling and dismembering addressed the court and delivered searing victim impact statements.

“What you have done to our family is beyond what words can express,” said JoAnn Mack, the adoptive mother of Valerie Mack, who disappeared in 2000.