Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann forced to face victims families for first time at sentencing

Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann will spend the rest of his life behind bars — but not before getting an earful from the families he ravaged.Heuermann, who is in Suffolk County court Wednesday to be slammed with three life sentences for the savage murders of eight sex workers between 1993 and 2010, has to first listen to victim impact statements from more than a dozen relatives of the women he strangled and butchered.The hulking Manhattan architect, 62, pleaded guilty in April to the heinous murders — all but one of which unfolded in a basement “kill room” in his family’s Massapequa Park home.He entered the courtroom wearing a black suit — and sporting the same sinister stare he wore in a new mug shot released this week by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office.Outside the Riverhead courthouse, a group of sex workers protested against the killer.The fiend’s plea deal with Suffolk County prosecutors called for the three life sentences — and his sentencing Wednsday closed out a national-headline-grabbing case involving a grisly string of killings that haunted the region for decades.Heuermann confessed to killing eight women between 1993 and 2010 and dumping their broken bodies along desolate stretches of Long Island, where they were found starting in December 2010.But the cases remained unsolved for decades until the investigation was reopened in 2022 and led to Heuermann’s arrest the next year — partly thanks to a pizza box he tossed in the trash outside his Manhattan office.In April, the confessed killer admitted he murdered all but one of his victims in a basement “kill room” in the family home while his wife and two kids were away, eventually developing a meticulous four-day routine to plan his crimes, clean up afterward and dispose of the bodies.He kept a Tinder account and buzzed prostitutes on burner phones more than 500 times while also embarking on “significant searches for pornography related to bindings, torture, rape, snuf...