Overview
- Heuermann was formally sentenced on Wednesday to multiple consecutive life terms without parole after pleading guilty in April to murdering eight women whose remains were found across Long Island between 1993 and 2010.
- Prosecutors say investigators linked Heuermann to the victims using degraded DNA matched to a discarded pizza crust, cell‑phone location records, vehicle sightings and documents seized from his devices.
- In court Heuermann admitted he strangled the victims, many of whom worked as sex workers, and acknowledged dismembering some bodies as described by prosecutors.
- As part of the plea he agreed to be interviewed by the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit, a step prosecutors said could help investigators search for any additional victims and inform future probes.
- Victims’ family members delivered impact statements at the hearing and officials said Heuermann will be moved from the Suffolk County jail in Riverhead to an unnamed state prison to serve his sentence.