The heartbreaking saga surrounding the Gilgo Beach murders is expected to come to a close Wednesday after nearly two decades, when Rex Heuermann is expected to admit to the string of heinous serial killings.
The Manhattan architect and Massapequa Park schlub’s anticipated guilty plea to the murder of seven women in a Suffolk County court caps Long Island’s most infamous hunt for a serial killer that started when the first body was discovered in 2010.
Heuermann, 62, is expected to confess to the murders of Amber Lynn Costello, Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy and Maureen Brainard-Barnes, who were famously known as the “Gilgo Four” — as well as Valerie Mack, Jessica Taylor and Sandra Costilla, the first victim killed in 1993.
The married father of two is also expected to cop to killing Karen Vergata, even though he’s never been officially charged with her murder, sources said.
Heuermann, who was arrested in 2023, will be sentenced at a later date.
“You know, the regular guy who goes to work, has kids in the local school and in a good neighborhood, but he’s killing people on the side,” a neighbor told NBC News about Heuermann in 2023.
Clever police work and cutting-edge DNA evidence helped take down the ogre-like, alleged serial killer, whose arrest has spawned real-crime documentaries and led to unprecedented media attention.
Suffolk investigators even scraped DNA from a used pizza box Heuermann tossed into a Big Apple trash can to help crack the cold case.
Since his arrest, sickening details have emerged.
Prosecutors said he killed all of the women in the basement of his home, which appears to be in squalid conditions compared to other houses in the pristine Nassau neighborhood.
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His family — including his longtime wife — has claimed they had no idea what Heuermann was allegedly doing in his spare time.
He also kept a Tinder account and buzzed prostitutes on burner phones more than 500 times, prosecutors revealed in March. Heuermann made “significant searches for pornography related to bindings, torture, rape, snuff videos, crying, bruised and impaled women and/or girls,” according to prosecutors.
Heuermann had long maintained his innocence as his defense team tried to contest DNA evidence and point to other potential suspects.
Now it appears his fight for freedom will end Wednesday.
Though a source pointed out to The Post, “The end to this is he dies in prison.”
