The long-unsolved crimes are known as the Gilgo Beach murders and were depicted in the 2020 Netflix film "Lost Girls."
Now, 62-year-old architect Rex Heuermann has admitted in a packed courtroom that he strangled all eight victims, dismembered some of them, used pay-as-you-go phones to contact them, and wrapped their bodies in burlap before dumping them.
The women, many of them sex workers, were killed over a 17-year period and buried in remote locations, several of them along an isolated beach road across the bay from where he lived.
Heuermann will be sentenced in June to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
