Long Island Architect Pleads Guilty to Gilgo Beach Murders

0:00It's April 8th, you're listening to Canada News today. AI-powered local news, I'm Corey with the story. A Long Island architect named Rex Hyermann, who's 62, is set to plead guilty Wednesday to murdering seven women in the infamous Gilgow Beach. Killings. These murders stretched over 17 years, mostly targeting sex workers and a guilty plea means he'll spend life behind bars. The case kicked off back in 2010, when cops found multiple sets of remains along a remote beach highway on Long Island's South Shore. That sparked a massive hunt for a serial killer, drawing worldwide eyes and even inspiring movies and docks. Investigators finally nailed him in 2022, using a task force that linked his pickup truck to a witness sighting. They grabbed his DNA from a discarded pizza crust in Manhattan, matching it to evidence on a victim, plus burner phone records, web searches on, torture porn, and his obsession with the case itself. These of the victims have waited over a decade for closure amid false hopes and slow progress,

1:03while true crime fans stayed hooked. Suffolk County DA Ray Tierney plans a news conference Wednesday, with relatives and task force members to address it all. This plea wraps one of the longest-running mysteries in modern crime history, bringing some justice after years of agony, with sentencing to come. Later.