Overview
- Heuermann, a 62-year-old architect, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Suffolk County court and admitted he strangled eight women between 1993 and 2010.
- He will be sentenced June 17 to three consecutive life terms followed by four terms of 25 years to life, with no possibility of parole.
- As part of the agreement, he will sit for interviews with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit in clinical sessions meant to study his motives and methods.
- Prosecutors tied him to Megan Waterman through a BJ’s-only Bounty paper towel pattern, a matching receipt and a saved towel square, and to the case through DNA lifted from a discarded pizza crust.
- Victims’ relatives, speaking through attorney Gloria Allred and in personal statements, said the plea brings long-sought closure, and the DA said Heuermann also accepted responsibility for Karen Vergata without a separate charge.