Serial killer pleads guilty to deaths of 3 women in Brooklyn senior housing complex

A 71-year-old described by prosecutors as a handyman pleaded guilty Friday to the murders of three women at the same apartment complex who had hired him for help, authorities said

A 71-year-old described by prosecutors as a handyman pleaded guilty Friday to the murders of three women at the same apartment complex who had hired him for help, authorities said.

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Kevin Gavin admitted to killing the three women between 2015 and 2021, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office said in a statement, which described Gavin as a “serial killer inside his own apartment building.”

Gavin pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree murder and three counts of second-degree murder in exchange for a sentence of 30 years to life in prison, the office said in a statement.