Rex Heuermann is not sorry for the women he killed — “he is sorry he got caught,” Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said.
Heuermann is a “remorseless and sadistic serial killer who only cares about himself,” Tierney said.
Requesting Heuermann receive the maximum sentence under the law at the sentencing hearing Wednesday, Tierney pointed to a planning document investigators uncovered. The document is where Heuermann “methodically blueprinted” how to select, kill and dispose of his victims, prosecutors said.
“Who this defendant truly is, is seen in that planning document,” Tierney said.
The document is written like a math problem or a shopping list, Tierney said, and it makes “clear that those victims meant nothing to this defendant.” He read parts of it aloud in court.
“The taking of life is sport (to him),” Tierney said.
The prosecutor also said Heuermann continually purchased burner phones and created new email accounts that he thought could not be traced back to him. He used the phones until the day he was arrested to patronize sex workers and commit murder, Tierney said.
Heuermann visited sex worker websites, pornography sites depicting the torture and dismemberment of women, and read about the Gilgo Beach murders, Tierney said.
“He thought he was being smart, he wasn’t being smart at all,” the district attorney said, calling Heuermann a “psychopath.”
“This defendant cares only about himself and his sick interests. He is not capable of caring about anything else, and that includes his own family,” Tierney said.
