“A VICTIM’S RELATIVE SUDDENLY STOOD UP AND SHOUTED ‘I CAN’T!’ — AND THE COURTROOM IMMEDIATELY FELL SILENT.” Rex Heuermann returned to court expecting to hear his final sentence for the murders of eight women. But before the hearing was over, prosecutors revealed disturbing new details about what allegedly happened inside the basement room investigators believe was used to carry out many of the killings.

New insight into Rex Heuermann’s ‘kill room’ torture makes victim’s kin flee Long Island courtroom
New insight into Rex Heuermann’s ‘kill room’ torture makes victim’s kin flee Long Island courtroom

New details of serial killer Rex Heuermann’s sick torture routine inside his basement “kill room” was too much for one relative of his helpless victims to bare.

“I can’t!” the woman screamed as Suffolk County DA Ray Tierney began describing Heuermann’s monstrous crimes in a Riverhead courtroom where the killer was sentenced to life in prison.Bathroom with a full bathtub, a toilet, a cardboard box filled with items, and visible water damage on the floor.

Images from inside the home og Gilgo Beach suspect, Rex Heuermann.Obtained by NY Post

“When he talks about what he needs to dispose of, he talks about props, toys, wood items,” Tierney told Judge Timothy Mazzei. “Wood items that he made himself with members of his own family that he kept in his house and he used during the execution of these murders, only to destroy them.

Rex Heuermann, wearing a suit and gold tie, enters a courtroom with law enforcement and others.
Serial killer Rex Heuermann in Suffolk County Court for his sentencing on June 17, 2026.James Carbone/Pool Newsday via AP
Overhead view of Gilgo Beach murders suspect Rex Heuermann's house, showing an open cellar door, gardening tools, and potted plants outside a shed.
The basement at Heuermann’s Massapequa Park house where he strangled and dismembered seven of his eight victims.New York Post
The cluttered interior of a home, showing various household items strewn around, with a large fluorescent light fixture on the ceiling.
Inside the Massapequa Park home of Gilgo Beach killer, Rex Heuermann, after police investigation and raid.Obtained by NY Post

“He’s treating this as if it were a sport,” the prosecutor said. “The talking of lives as though it were a sport.”

Heuermann, who pleaded guilty in April to strangling and dismembering eight sex workers — all but one in a “kill room” in the basement of his family’s Massapequa Park home — was slapped with three life terms.

The hulking architect killed the women between 1993 and 2010, with the cases unsolved until he was arrested outside his Manhattan office in 2023.

Judge Tim Mazzei wiping a tear from his eye during a victim impact statement.
Judge Tim Mazzei wiping away tears while listening to victim impact statements during the emotional sentencing.James Carbone/Pool Newsday via AP
Jasmine Robinson and Violet Swagger, cousins of victim Jessica Taylor, hug in the courtroom during the Gilgo serial killer's sentencing.
Jasmine Robinson (left) and Violet Swagger, cousins of victim Jessica Taylor, hugging each other during the sentencing.James Carbone/Pool Newsday via AP
Rex Heuermann, wearing handcuffs, being escorted by police officers.
Heuermann getting led away in handcuffs after he was sentenced to three life sentences in prison.James Carbone/Pool Newsday via AP

A room cluttered with boxes, bags, and a treadmill, with a wooden-paneled wall on the left.
Police found a cluttered with boxes, bags, and a treadmill scattered and horded.Obtained y NY Post

Suffolk County prosecutors said Heuermann kept a meticulous “planning document” on his computer, where he kept gory notes on how to prepare to “hunt” his victims and torture them to death.

A cluttered garage with tools, boxes marked "EVIDENCE," and various household items.
More clutter from inside the the garage, with boxes marked “EVIDENCE”.Obtained by NY Post

The victims, all young and petite sex workers, were discovered in remote areas in Gilgo Beach and in Manorville in 2010 and 2011.

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