RIVERHEAD, N.Y.— Rex Heuermann, who will spend the rest of his life in prison after admitting to being the Gilgo Beach serial killer, had a "Dexter"-style kill room in his basement, according to the top prosecutor on the case."Very evocative of that, and I think when we realized what it was, you know, that was some of the comments that were made," said Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney, who was personally part of the prosecution team that secured Heuermann's guilty plea.
"We were actually able to recreate that, in the basement, in the exact location."And that's the room where Heuermann's ex-wife now sleeps, according to a new docuseries, "The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets," where she said so herself.Heuermann received the maximum possible sentence from Judge Timothy Mazzei Wednesday — three consecutive terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole, followed by four consecutive terms of 25 years to life in prison.GILGO BEACH SERIAL KILLER REX HEUERMANN SLAMMED AS ‘SMALL MAN’ AS JUDGE GIVES MAX SENTENCE FOR MURDER SPREEGilgo serial killer Rex Heuermann appears inside a courtroom for sentencing at Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, N.Y., on June 16, 2026.(James Carbone/Newsday)"You’re a disgusting and despicable small man, if you’re a man at all," Mazzei told the defendant.
"And you’re a coward."Moments later, he told the court officers to "get him out of here."Heuermann is expected to be in state prison before the end of the week, Tierney said.So he took that book, not to gain insight, but to become a better serial killer, specifically not to get caught.In an interview with Fox News and Fox News Digital after the sentencing hearing, Tierney explained why investigators returned to Heuermann's basement long after they'd arrested him and spent days searching the house.They recovered a deleted document that Heuermann labeled "HK," which Tierney said stood for "hunt-kill." Although Heuermann had made and deleted multiple versio...