Overview
- Multiple outlets reported Thursday that Heuermann could change his plea to guilty at his April 8 court appearance.
- His lawyer Michael J. Brown and Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney are reported to be negotiating a deal that would require a judge's approval.
- Heuermann is charged with killing seven women between 1993 and 2011 and has been held without bail since his July 2023 arrest.
- Prosecutors have said his DNA matched hairs recovered near victims and that he kept a written 'blueprint' for the attacks.
- A guilty plea would likely avert a September trial, sparing families a protracted proceeding.