Eerie silence, fluorescent lights and a packed courtroom: Inside the Gilgo Beach killer's guilty plea

In a courtroom 10 miles north of the shoreline where the Gilgo Beach killer dumped the bodies of his victims, Rex Heuermann admitted to killing eight women.

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — In a drab courtroom 10 miles north of the shoreline where the Gilgo Beach serial killer dumped the bodies of his victims, the man accused of terrorizing Long Island’s coast for nearly two decades stood in front of a judge and uttered a word the grieving families had waited years to hear: “guilty.”

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