# Architect, 59, arrested as prime suspect in Long Island serial killings **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2023, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/architect-59-arrested-as-prime-suspect-in-long-island-serial-killings/987046 "2023-07-14T23:06:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/architect-59-arrested-as-prime-suspect-in-long-island-serial-killings/987046/61 "2025-09-02T00:17:50Z")
Could be researching for a novel. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2026, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/architect-59-arrested-as-prime-suspect-in-long-island-serial-killings/987046/62 "2026-04-08T13:57:33Z")
> **[Rex Heuermann set to plead guilty in the Gilgo Beach killings, ending long...](https://apnews.com/article/gilgo-beach-serial-killings-guilty-plea-fdfbb6aace18e89bd5f7593859825eef)** > > A Long Island architect accused in a string of long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings is expected to plead guilty, closing a case that bedeviled investigators, agonized victims’ relatives and tantalized a true-crime obsessed public... ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2026, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/architect-59-arrested-as-prime-suspect-in-long-island-serial-killings/987046/63 "2026-04-08T19:00:16Z")
He’s pleaded guilty, and may be in prison for awhile (sentencing in June). > [@](#): > > Heuermann is expected to receive a sentence of life in prison without parole, three consecutive life sentences, followed by four sentences of 25 years to life. Surprising that they didn’t add 8 counts of abusing a corpse, but there’s still time to tack that on. > **[Rex Heuermann admits to killing 8 women in Gilgo Beach serial killings](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gilgo-beach-serial-killer-suspect-rex-heuermann-expected-plead-guilty-rcna266547)** > > Heuermann pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and intentionally causing the death of Karen Vergata. In exchange for the guilty plea, he will not be charged with Vergata's uncharged murder. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/architect-59-arrested-as-prime-suspect-in-long-island-serial-killings/987046/64 "2026-04-09T18:58:36Z")
He’s 62, so were looking at 25, maybe 30 years before dying? ETA, looking around online, it seems that he may be a lot closer to completing his life sentence than I realized. One cite was that the average death age for lifers was 64. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/architect-59-arrested-as-prime-suspect-in-long-island-serial-killings/987046/65 "2026-04-09T19:05:45Z")
But that average is going to include a bunch of people who have spent 40 years in prison, eating a prison diet, getting prison medical care, etc. Might not be all that relevant to someone who enters prison at 62. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/architect-59-arrested-as-prime-suspect-in-long-island-serial-killings/987046/66 "2026-04-09T21:17:38Z")
Agree completely. That stat isn’t about folks entering prison at 62. Heck, from the looks of that guy, they could forget to feed him entirely and it still might take him a year or more to starve. Not that such barbarity _should_ be done. Even to him. But of all the problems that might kill him in the next few years, I doubt inadequate prison food will be in the running. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2026, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/architect-59-arrested-as-prime-suspect-in-long-island-serial-killings/987046/67 "2026-04-10T02:40:05Z")
And prior to that, grew up in substandard housing, had inadequate food and medical care, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2026, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/architect-59-arrested-as-prime-suspect-in-long-island-serial-killings/987046/68 "2026-04-10T10:16:34Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Heck, from the looks of that guy, they could forget to feed him entirely and it still might take him a year or more to starve. Indeed. 3 years in jail. I guess three squares and a cot includes an all-you-can-eat buffet. But very bad haircuts. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/architect-59-arrested-as-prime-suspect-in-long-island-serial-killings/987046/69 "2026-04-21T22:48:07Z")
> **[Rex Heuermann told ex-wife he murdered Gilgo Beach victims at family's home,...](https://apnews.com/article/gilgo-beach-ny-serial-killings-rex-heuermann-8637d665e2d8aad2129f27a86ec306ee)** > > The man who recently pleaded guilty to New York’s Gilgo Beach serial murders has told his ex-wife he killed most of his female victims in the family’s suburban home. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/architect-59-arrested-as-prime-suspect-in-long-island-serial-killings/987046/70 "2026-04-22T02:06:24Z")
The evil never ends with this guy. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2026, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/architect-59-arrested-as-prime-suspect-in-long-island-serial-killings/987046/71 "2026-06-17T16:07:37Z")
Life without parole.. > **[Rex Heuermann sentenced to life in prison in infamous Gilgo Beach serial...](https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/rex-heuermann-sentence-gilgo-beach-serial-killer-prison-b2997661.html)** > > Cheers erupted in court as the architect turned serial killer was finally made to pay for his crimes [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/architect-59-arrested-as-prime-suspect-in-long-island-serial-killings/987046.md?page=3)