Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann sentenced to life in prison without parole

Rex Heuermann, the Manhattan architect who methodically planned and carried out the murders of eight women over at least 17 years on Long Island, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole. The sentence, the maximum the New York law allows, was handed down by Judge Timothy Mazzei after a morning of grueling victim’s family impact statements on the effect Heuermann’s murder spree had on the children and relatives of his victims. Heuermann, 62, pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and admitted to the killing of an eighth victim in April. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Wednesday for his admitted crimes. A cousin of victim Jessica Taylor, Jasmine Robinson, told the court on behalf of her cousin: “A million years isn’t enough. Nothing will ever make this right.” “You fill me with so much repugnance, I can’t stand it,” she added, per the Associated Press. JoAnn Mack, the mother of victim Valerie Mack, told the court of her daughter: “Justice has been done, but it can’t replace what has been taken. She had dreams, and you took them all away from her.” Liliana Waterman, who was 3 when her mother, Megan Waterman, disappeared, recalled how Heuermann changed her life: “In an instant, my world was shattered. Was she in pain? Was she scared?” Heuermann admitted to the murders of Taylor, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Amber Lynn Costello, Mack and Sandra Costilla, as well as the uncharged 1996 killing of Karen Vergata. …