Gilgo Beach Cold Case Solved - Rex Heuermann's 17-Year Killing Spree

In 1993, a killer began a 17-year spree on Long Island that wouldn't be solved for over three decades. Eight women. One man. And in the end, all it took to catch him was a piece of garbage he threw away himself. Between 1993 and 2010, women disappeared from Long Island, one at a time, years apart most of them sex workers who vanished after meeting clients online. For over a decade, police treated each case separately, with no name and no pattern connecting any of it. Then, in 2022, a new task force reopened the file from scratch and one overlooked detail from 2010 finally led them to Rex Heuermann, a Manhattan architect who'd been living an ordinary double life just miles from where the bodies were found. This video covers the full case: the disappearances, the decade the investigation sat cold, the DNA match that broke it open, and the 2026 sentencing that finally closed eight cases that took over thirty years to solve. Subscribe for more real cold cases and unsolved mysteries. #GilgoBeach #ColdCase #TrueCrime #RexHeuermann #LongIsland