Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann slammed as ‘small man’ as judge gives max sentence for murder spree

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — Rex Heuermann, the Long Island serial slayer who has admitted to the murders of 8 women betwixt 1993 and 2010, volition walk the remainder of his beingness successful prison.

Judge Timothy Mazzei connected Wednesday handed down 3 consecutive sentences of beingness with nary parole followed by 4 consecutive sentences of 25 to beingness — the maximum imaginable nether New York law.

Heuermann, 62, spoke successful tribunal earlier helium was sentenced.

"I’m responsible," helium said. "The words I would accidental person nary meaning."

SEND US A TIP HERE

Rex Heuermann pleads blameworthy successful tribunal to the murders of 8 women during a 17-year sidesplitting spree connected Long Island. (James Carbone/Newsday)

One of the victims' families told him to talk up. Mazzei stepped successful and said: "I cognize that you’re atrocious you got caught. I presume you’re atrocious for what you did to your woman and children…Are you astatine slightest a small spot atrocious for what you did to these 8 women?"

Heuermann nodded yes and said helium is.

"You’re a disgusting and despicable tiny man, if you’re a antheral astatine all," Mazzei said. "And you’re a coward."

After giving him the maximum imaginable sentence, Mazzei told bailiffs to "get him retired of here."

Heuermann pleaded blameworthy to 7 of the murders connected April 8 and confessed to an uncharged eighth.

The victims were recovered concealed crossed antithetic parts of Long Island, from the Hamptons to Gilgo Beach. Some were dismembered. All had been strangled.

They person been identified arsenic Sandra Costilla, 28, recovered successful North Sea; Karen Vergata, 34, recovered connected Fire Island and adjacent Tobay Beach; Valerie Mack, 24, recovered successful Manorville and on Ocean Parkway adjacent Gilgo Beach; Jessica Taylor, 20, recovered successful Manorville and on Ocean Parkway — and the alleged Gilgo Four, who were each recovered conscionable eastbound of Gilgo Beach successful the brushwood northbound of Ocean Parkway. They were Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25; Melissa Barthelemy, 24; Megan Waterman, 22; and Amber Lynn Costello, 27.

Gilgo Beach, astir 45 miles eastbound of New York City, wherever Heuermann worked, and astir 15 miles from his erstwhile location successful Massapequa Park.

Concerns of a serial slayer archetypal emerged successful precocious 2010 aft the disappearance of Shannan Gilbert, a 23-year-old pistillate who placed panicked 911 calls from the Oak Beach assemblage earlier vanishing into the surrounding marsh.

LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST

Rex Heuermann's victims: Sandra Costilla, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Amber Costello, Valerie Mack, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Jessica Taylor and Karen Vergata. (Insets: Suffolk County Police Department, Background: Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)

During a hunt for her, constabulary uncovered 10 different victims successful the country earlier they yet recovered her successful December 2011.

While her decease was deemed accidental, grounds surrounding different victims yet led constabulary to Heuermann 12 years later.

LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? FIND MORE ON THE TRUE CRIME HUB

It would beryllium much than a decennary earlier constabulary closed successful connected Heuermann arsenic a suspect. They initially charged him with sidesplitting 3 of the Gilgo Four. By the clip helium pleaded blameworthy successful April, helium was accused of 7 murders.

Rex Heuermann is led into Arthur M. Cromarty Criminal Complex successful Riverhead, N.Y., connected Friday, July 14, 2023. (Matt Agudo/Splash for Fox News Digital)

Authorities uncovered damning grounds on the way. Prosecutors person alleged that helium transferred DNA from his ex-wife and girl to immoderate of the victims. Detectives recovered a machine record wherever Heuermann kept notes connected however to get distant with crimes, including supplies for his termination kits, the locations of postulation cameras and a reminder to usage push-pins to bent a driblet cloth, alternatively than tape.

His household has not been accused of assisting successful immoderate of the crimes – they were retired of municipality during each murder, according to tribunal documents.

Shannan Gilbert's remains were recovered adjacent Oak Beach, N.Y., connected Dec. 13, 2011. She vanished successful May 2010, kicking disconnected a hunt that unearthed the Gilgo Beach murders. (Gilbert family)

MIGRANT CHARGED IN GILGO BEACH THROAT SLASHING, FUELING SERIAL KILLER COPYCAT FEARS

Three different victims recovered successful the country haven't been linked to Heuermann.

Andrew Dykes, a 66-year-old from Florida, has been charged with the 1997 murders of Tanya Denise Jackson, 27, and their 2-year-old daughter, Tatiana Marie Dykes.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

There is besides an unidentified "Asian Doe" whose skeletal remains were discovered wearing women's covering adjacent Gilgo Beach successful 2011 during the hunt for Gilbert.

He is believed to beryllium of confederate Chinese ancestry and was betwixt 17 and 23 astatine the clip of his death, which investigators estimation came successful April 2006 oregon earlier.