Rex Heuermann is reportedly expected to plead guilty to the alleged murders of seven women. After nearly three years of maintaining his innocence, the accused Gilgo Beach Killer and Long Island Serial Killer is apparently done fighting — and the reasons why tell you everything about how this LISK case was built.

Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me for the complete breakdown of the Rex Heuermann case. We trace the prosecution's strategy from the 2022 cold case reopening through every charge, every denied motion, and every pretrial ruling that narrowed the Gilgo Beach Killer defense's options until a plea reportedly became the only path left.

We examine the evidence in detail — the deleted Word document allegedly recovered from Heuermann's hard drive with sections on supplies, targets, disposal sites, and "Mindhunter" references. The DNA matched through whole genome sequencing, admitted in New York for the first time. The pizza crust surveillance. Faddis explains why the LISK defense challenged the DNA but not the document — and which piece of evidence he believes broke the accused Long Island Serial Killer's resolve.

And we address what the Gilgo Beach Killer plea doesn't resolve. The remaining victims. Shannan Gilbert. The Bittrolff reversal on Sandra Costilla. The behavioral evidence — the planning, the timing, the alleged compartmentalized existence. Whether law enforcement keeps investigating. Whether the alternative suspect argument has any legal life. And whether a plea without a trial can ever be called justice.

This is the definitive Rex Heuermann conversation. Every angle. Every question. No filter.

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Rex Heuermann is expected to plead guilty to the alleged murders of seven women. But the Gilgo Beach Killer investigation uncovered eleven sets of remains — and the accused Long Island Serial Killer is not believed to be responsible for all of them. Shannan Gilbert's case remains uncharged. The Sandra Costilla murder was once attributed to convicted killer John Bittrolff before prosecutors reversed course and charged Heuermann.

Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me to examine what a Gilgo Beach Killer guilty plea doesn't resolve. We walk through the remaining LISK victims and whether law enforcement continues investigating once the primary defendant is resolved. We examine the Bittrolff reversal in detail — what it means when the prosecution's own prior theory contradicts their current charges — and whether that argument has any legal life in a potential appeal.

Faddis addresses the behavioral evidence — the alleged timing of killings when Heuermann's family was away, the planning document references, the internet search history — and what the totality of that evidence suggests about how the accused Long Island Serial Killer allegedly compartmentalized his existence. We talk about the systemic failures that allowed someone to allegedly target marginalized women for nearly two decades. And we close with the question at the center of the Gilgo Beach Killer case: is a plea without a trial justice — or is it just an ending?

For anyone who has followed the Rex Heuermann case from the beginning, this is the conversation about what happens after the plea.

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Prosecutors in the LISK case recovered a Word document from Rex Heuermann's basement hard drive — allegedly created in 2000 — that outlined how to select victims, dispose of remains, and avoid capture. They matched the accused Gilgo Beach Killer's DNA to hairs found on and near multiple victims using whole genome sequencing, admitted for the first time in New York history. And the original break came from a pizza crust the accused Long Island Serial Killer discarded during surveillance.

Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me to walk through both pillars of the Gilgo Beach Killer evidence. We examine the planning document's alleged contents — sections on supplies, problems, disposal sites, targets, and references to "Mindhunter" — and why the LISK defense reportedly never challenged its authenticity. We trace the DNA chain from a piece of trash to matches across multiple crime scenes spanning years. And we break down the Frye hearing that admitted whole genome sequencing — what the defense argued, what the judge ruled, and why it matters.

Faddis explains what the forensic recovery of deleted files from over 350 seized devices actually involves, where the science has vulnerabilities, and which piece of evidence he believes is the reason Rex Heuermann is reportedly pleading guilty.

For anyone who wants to understand the evidence at the center of the Gilgo Beach Killer case — this is the deep dive.

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Rex Heuermann's legal team tried everything to fight the Gilgo Beach Killer charges. They moved to exclude the DNA evidence connecting the accused Long Island Serial Killer to the victims. They fought to break the LISK case into separate trials spanning different decades and different alleged methods. They filed a 178-page omnibus motion seeking dismissal of the Sandra Costilla charge and review of grand jury proceedings. They pointed to convicted killer John Bittrolff as an alternative suspect.

Every motion was denied. And now, according to multiple reports, the accused Gilgo Beach Killer is expected to plead guilty to the alleged murders of seven women on Long Island.

Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me to trace the line from Heuermann's arrest to expected plea — explaining how each failed defense motion narrowed the LISK defendant's options until a guilty plea reportedly became the only path left. Faddis walks through the specific rulings, what the defense was strategically trying to accomplish with each one, and why the court rejected them.

We also examine the negotiation between defense attorney Michael Brown and DA Ray Tierney. What's being discussed? What can either side realistically offer? And we address the judge's role — whether Judge Mazzei could reject the Gilgo Beach Killer plea, and what would have to go wrong for that to happen.

For anyone who has followed the Rex Heuermann investigation from the beginning, this is the conversation that explains how the legal endgame unfolded.

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For nearly three years, the accused Long Island Serial Killer maintained his innocence. His attorney said there was no Gilgo Beach plea deal. The DA said the same. They were heading to trial in the biggest LISK proceeding in New York history. And then, reportedly, everything changed.

Sources say Rex Heuermann is expected to plead guilty on April 8 to murdering seven women in the Gilgo Beach serial killings. I go deep on why — not just the legal collapse that made a Gilgo Beach trial unwinnable, but the psychological architecture of a man prosecutors allege was the LISK, now making his last controlled decision.

The Gilgo Beach DNA evidence survived two challenges. Severance was denied. The planning document — the alleged murder checklist found on the LISK suspect's own computer — was going to sit over all seven Gilgo Beach charges in a single trial. The prosecution's case was a fortress. But the sentence was always going to be the same: life without parole. So this Gilgo Beach plea isn't about avoiding a harsher punishment. It's about avoiding the process — the months-long LISK trial spectacle, the evidence performed publicly, the family exposed further. For the man prosecutors say was the Long Island Serial Killer, someone who allegedly compartmentalized murder the same way he managed architectural projects, a plea is order. A trial is chaos.

I also cover the health questions, the fractured Gilgo Beach narrative after Andrew Dykes' arrest proved Ocean Parkway was never one killer's corridor, and why this plea — even if it closes the LISK criminal case — doesn't close the Gilgo Beach story. Other victims along Ocean Parkway remain unidentified. Other questions remain unanswered. The Gilgo Beach investigation isn't over. It's just entering a different phase.

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Seven families may be getting a phone call soon. Sources report that Rex Heuermann is expected to plead guilty on April 8 in the Gilgo Beach serial killing case — a case that went cold for over a decade before investigators finally broke it open. That plea hasn't happened yet. But if it does, it would represent the legal resolution these families have been waiting for since their loved ones went missing years ago.

Four more families won't be getting that call. Their loved ones are connected to this investigation, but the expected plea structure doesn't reach them. No charges. No resolution. And if this holds, no trial that might have brought information to light.

That's where we're focused today — not on case mechanics in the abstract, but on the people whose lives were changed by what Heuermann allegedly did. The families who may finally get an answer and are already trying to understand what closure looks like in practice. The families who won't. The daughter who has said she believes he most likely did it — and what that kind of knowledge costs someone. The ex-wife who once called him her hero, who now has to rebuild everything she believed about her own life.

Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins me to go through your listener questions — and the ones that stood out most were about these people. Not case mechanics. The human beings left inside this story as a plea negotiation plays out.

One listener wrote in and said she couldn't even formulate a question — she just needed to talk about what it means that his family's DNA was allegedly on those victims through ordinary household items. We're going to talk about it.

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If you've been following the Gilgo Beach case from the beginning, this is the moment the entire investigation has been building toward.

According to multiple sources confirmed by the Associated Press and every major national outlet, Rex Heuermann — the architect from Massapequa Park charged with murdering seven women connected to the Long Island serial killer investigation — is expected to plead guilty on April 8 and accept life without the possibility of parole. The families have been notified. The September trial is almost certainly not happening.

I've covered every turn of this case, and in this episode I'm walking through how it all finally came together — from the discovery of the Gilgo Four in December 2010, to the 2022 task force revival, to the pizza crust DNA that cracked the case open, to the arrest outside his Manhattan office in July 2023, to the charges that eventually stretched back to 1993.

The murder manual in all capitals — "Body Prep," "Post Event," notes on rope weight, lessons allegedly taken from previous kills — created in 2000, updated for years, recovered after he tried to wipe it. The burner phones under fake names. The Tinder account. The 500-plus contacts. The Gmail searches for "Why hasn't the Long Island serial killer been caught." The 350-plus devices. The DNA on five victims linked not just to Heuermann — but to his wife and daughter, transferred through objects from inside their family home.

His daughter says he most likely did it. His ex-wife called him her hero. The defense fought hard and lost every major motion. And then the phone calls went out to the families.

Four of the eleven victims found in 2010 and 2011 remain uncharged. Andrew Dykes has been separately charged in connection with Tanya Denise Jackson — known for years only as "Peaches." The DA says the investigation is not over.

This episode covers where the Gilgo case stands, what the expected guilty plea means, and what it still leaves open for the families who have waited the longest.

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Someone tried to delete this file. Forensic analysts recovered it anyway. According to prosecutors, document HK2002-04 is the Long Island Serial Killer's literal how-to guide for murder.

The file was hidden on one of fifty-eight hard drives seized from Rex Heuermann's Massapequa Park basement. Created in 2000, modified through 2002, it allegedly contained eighty-seven details prosecutors say match the methodology used on the Gilgo Beach victims.

According to court documents: A "Supplies" section allegedly listed cutting tools, acid, tarps, and cat litter. A "Body Prep" section allegedly stated: "remove head and hands, remove ID marks like tattoos." A "Things to Remember" section allegedly contained lessons learned: "Hit harder... light rope broke under stress." References to specific pages in FBI profiler John Douglas's Mindhunter appeared throughout.

Jessica Taylor's remains were found along Ocean Parkway with her head removed and tattoos mutilated—allegedly matching the document exactly. When investigators returned to Rex Heuermann's home with infrared equipment, they found adhesive residue and push pin evidence in the drop ceiling—exactly as allegedly described.

DA Ray Tierney: "The exact method by which these murders were committed in excruciating detail in that document is in some cases identical to the methodology used to murder the victims."

The family that lived with Rex for twenty-seven years has fractured completely. Wife Asa Ellerup still calls him her "hero" and describes jail visits like "a first date." Daughter Victoria reached a different conclusion after speaking with BTK's daughter: "most likely" guilty.

According to prosecutors, female hairs on multiple victims were allegedly consistent with DNA from both women. Neither is accused—prosecutors say the hair transferred from clothing or the home. Women linked to murder victims they never knew existed.

The daughter saw what the wife cannot. Both are victims. Just not of the same truth.

Rex Heuermann has pleaded not guilty. Trial is September 2026.

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