The Rex Heuermann guilty plea update marks a major turning point in the Long Island Serial Killer case as courtroom tensions rise following his admission to murder charges. In this episode of the STS podcast, we break down exactly what happened inside the courtroom during the Rex Heuermann guilty plea update, including reactions from prosecutors, defense attorneys, and victims’ families. This Rex Heuermann guilty plea update gives insight into how the case is shifting legally and emotionally after years of investigation.

We also explore the broader impact on true crime news, including similar real crime stories, unresolved cold cases, and powerful survivor stories connected to serial killer investigations. If you’re following this case closely, this episode delivers a clear, direct breakdown of the plea hearing, courtroom atmosphere, and what could happen next in this high-profile trial.
Key Points from the Episode:

Breakdown of the Rex Heuermann guilty plea update in court

What was said during the plea hearing

Reactions from prosecution, defense, and victims’ families

Legal implications moving forward

Connections to broader cold cases and serial killer investigations

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The New York architect accused of murdering multiple women and leaving their corpses scattered along the Long Island coast kept a “blueprint” of his crimes on his computer, prosecutors revealed Thursday as they brought charges against Rex Heuermann in two more killings. 

Heuermann, 60, appeared before a judge to be arraigned in the deaths of Jessica Taylor and Sandra Costilla, two young women who were long suspected of being the victims of men preying on sex workers. He had previously been charged with murdering four other women in a string of 

#BestGuests: 

America’s most respected Detective Fil Waters spent decades in the law enforcement world becomING an expert at obtaining criminal confessions. 

He spent 23 years working as a homicide detective in the Houston Police Department investigating more than 400 homicide cases, including one that took the life of his good friend and fellow police officer. 

Detective Waters is also a Marine and the owner of Kindred Spirits Investigations. He also starred in the show “The Interrogator”. 

Agent Scott Duffey is Director of Wilmington University’s Criminal Justice Institute. 

Scott is a retired FBI supervisory Special Agent of the Wilmington, Delaware Resident Agency. He worked violent crime matters, gangs, bank robberies and Fugitive task force cases for 20 years before being promoted supervisor of the violent crime task force in Wilmington, Delaware 

Prior to FBI, served 5 1/2 years as a Pennsylvania police officer 

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#STSNation, 

Welcome to another episode of Surviving The Survivor, the podcast that brings you the #BestGuests in all of True Crime… 

Great Scott! It’s time for your true crime “Fil” …with Fil and Scott. 

A show so good, it happens live every Friday… 

The New York architect accused of murdering multiple women and leaving their corpses scattered along the Long Island coast kept a “blueprint” of his crimes on his computer, prosecutors revealed Thursday as they brought charges against Rex Heuermann in two more killings. 

Heuermann, 60, appeared before a judge to be arraigned in the deaths of Jessica Taylor and Sandra Costilla, two young women who were long suspected of being the victims of men preying on sex workers. He had previously been charged with murdering four other women in a string of 

#BestGuests: 

America’s most respected Detective Fil Waters spent decades in the law enforcement world becomING an expert at obtaining criminal confessions. 

He spent 23 years working as a homicide detective in the Houston Police Department investigating more than 400 homicide cases, including one that took the life of his good friend and fellow police officer. 

Detective Waters is also a Marine and the owner of Kindred Spirits Investigations. He also starred in the show “The Interrogator”. 

Agent Scott Duffey is Director of Wilmington University’s Criminal Justice Institute. 

Scott is a retired FBI supervisory Special Agent of the Wilmington, Delaware Resident Agency. He worked violent crime matters, gangs, bank robberies and Fugitive task force cases for 20 years before being promoted supervisor of the violent crime task force in Wilmington, Delaware 

Prior to FBI, served 5 1/2 years as a Pennsylvania police officer 

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#STSNation, 

Welcome to another episode of Surviving The Survivor, the podcast that brings you the #BestGuests in all of True Crime… 

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Questions are swirling over the mysterious deaths of three Kansas City Chiefs fans who 'froze to death' in a friend's backyard after watching a playoff game. 

David Harrington, Ricky Johnson and Clayton McGeeney visited an unnamed friend's house on January 7 to watch the Chiefs' playoff win against the Chargers, but never made it home. 

#BestGuests: 

America’s most respected Detective Fil Waters spent decades in the law enforcement world becoming an expert at obtaining criminal confessions. 

He spent 23 years working as a homicide detective in the Houston Police Department investigating more than 400 homicide cases, including one that took the life of his good friend and fellow police officer. 

Detective Waters is also a Marine and the owner of Kindred Spirits Investigations. He also starred in the show “The Interrogator”. 

Agent Scott Duffey is Director of Wilmington University’s Criminal Justice Institute. 

Scott is a retired FBI supervisory Special Agent of the Wilmington, Delaware Resident Agency. He worked violent crime matters, gangs, bank robberies and Fugitive task force cases for 20 years before being promoted supervisor of the violent crime task force in Wilmington, Delaware 

Prior to FBI, served 5 1/2 years as a Pennsylvania police officer 

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#STSNation, 

Welcome to another episode of Surviving The Survivor, the podcast that brings you the #BestGuests in all of #TrueCrime… 

New York police appear to have cracked a 13 year old case … 

Police say Rex Heuermann is the accused Long Island Serial Killer … 

Today, Suffolk County Ray Tierney announced Rex Heuermann will also be charged in the murder of Maureen Brainard Barnes - as the accused killer heads back to court. 

#BestGuests: 

Joseph L. Giacalone is a retired NYPD Sergeant SDS (Supervisor Detective Squad) and internationally recognized expert. He has an extensive background in criminal investigations. He has held many prestigious positions in the NYPD, but his favorite was the Commanding Officer of the Bronx Cold Case Squad. Joe has worked on and supervised hundreds of homicides, violent felonies, suicides and missing persons cases. 

Joe has trained investigators from all over the United States and the world. In 2013, Joe found himself as part of a team training detectives on Intimate Partner Violence in Amman, Jordan. Joe has also been a 3 time guest speaker at CrimeCon (Nashville, Chicago, and New Orleans). 

Lisa Ribacoff is a licensed Private Investigator and Advanced Trained Polygraph Examiner based out of New York, Florida and Connecticut. 

She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the American Polygraph Association as the Seminar Program Chair and is also on the National Cold Case Task Force. 

She is listed as a Court Certified Expert for Private Investigations and Polygraph Examinations for the City of New York, and both Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island. 

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Suffolk County police are investigating startling new witness accounts linking accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann to two prostitutes whose deaths remain unsolved — Shannan Gilbert and Karen Vergata.

Joined by Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison at a Wednesday press conference, attorney John Ray said they came forward after Heuermann’s arrest for the murder of three sex workers in July.

#BestGuests:

America’s most respected Detective Fil Waters spent decades in the law enforcement world becomING an expert at obtaining criminal confessions.

He spent 23 years working as a homicide detective in the Houston Police Department investigating more than 400 homicide cases, including one that took the life of his good friend and fellow police officer.

Detective Waters is also a Marine and the owner of Kindred Spirits Investigations. He also starred in the show “The Interrogator”.

Agent Scott Duffey is Director of Wilmington University’s Criminal Justice Institute.

Scott is a retired FBI supervisory Special Agent of the Wilmington, Delaware Resident Agency. He worked violent crime matters, gangs, bank robberies and Fugitive task force cases for 20 years before being promoted supervisor of the violent crime task force in Wilmington, Delaware

Prior to FBI, served 5 1/2 years as a Pennsylvania police officer

Surviving the Survivor is the show that brings you the #BestGuests in all of #TrueCrime and is hosted by Emmy Award-Winning Host Joel Waldman. STS covers the biggest trending true crime cases along with breaking news. You can also find us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SurvivingTheSurvivor

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#STSNation,

Welcome to another episode of Surviving The Survivor, the podcast that brings you the #BestGuests in all of #TrueCrime…

Great Scott! It’s time for your true crime “Fil” …with Fil and Scott.

A show so good, it happens live every Friday…

Suffolk County police are investigating startling new witness accounts linking accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann to two prostitutes whose deaths remain unsolved — Shannan Gilbert and Karen Vergata.

Joined by Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison at a Wednesday press conference, attorney John Ray said they came forward after Heuermann’s arrest for the murder of three sex workers in July.

#BestGuests:

America’s most respected Detective Fil Waters spent decades in the law enforcement world becomING an expert at obtaining criminal confessions.

He spent 23 years working as a homicide detective in the Houston Police Department investigating more than 400 homicide cases, including one that took the life of his good friend and fellow police officer.

Detective Waters is also a Marine and the owner of Kindred Spirits Investigations. He also starred in the show “The Interrogator”.

Agent Scott Duffey is Director of Wilmington University’s Criminal Justice Institute.

Scott is a retired FBI supervisory Special Agent of the Wilmington, Delaware Resident Agency. He worked violent crime matters, gangs, bank robberies and Fugitive task force cases for 20 years before being promoted supervisor of the violent crime task force in Wilmington, Delaware

Prior to FBI, served 5 1/2 years as a Pennsylvania police officer

#LongIslandSerialKiller #LISK #NewYorkSerialKiller #RexHeuermann

Surviving the Survivor is the show that brings you the #BestGuests in all of #TrueCrime and is hosted by Emmy Award-Winning Host Joel Waldman. STS covers the biggest trending true crime cases along with breaking news. You can also find us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SurvivingTheSurvivor

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Surviving The Survivor Host, Joel Waldman, and several STS #BestGuests air the LISK press conference live and give a full analysis on the new evidence revealed.

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#STSNation,

Welcome to another episode of Surviving The Survivor, the podcast that brings you the #BestGuests in all of #TrueCrime…

New York police appear to have cracked a 13 year old case …

Police say Rex Heuermann is the accused Long Island Serial Killer …

As we’re learning more about his life behind bars, the women who came in contact with him recently — and the other woman — his wife — who now wants nothing to do with the now 60 year old former Manhattan architect.

#BestGuests:

Paul was the first and remains the only private investigator to receive board certification as a Criminal Profiler from the Academy of Behavioral Profiling within the International Association of Forensic Criminologists (IAFC). Criminal Profilers provide advanced instruction in the application of evidence based criminal profiling techniques (aka Behavioral Evidence Analysis) to unsolved criminal cases, with the anticipation of eventual courtroom testimony.

He is the current President of The International Association of Forensic Criminologists

He is also a past winner of The International Investigator of the year award.

Paul has authored or co-authored five professional textbooks, a Wrongful Conviction investigative guide and a Biography.

Randy Zelin is a NYC-based former prosecutor turned criminal defense attorney with more than 30 years experience.

He’s tried cases against both DOJ and SEC.

Randy is also an adjunct professor at Cornell Law appearing on Fox News, Fox Business Channel, CNN, CNN Headline News, Bloomberg, Newsmax, NewsNation and local network television

Retired Las Vegas Homicide Detective Phil Ramos was present for Tupac Shakur’s autopsy.

In his three-plus-decade career, Det. Ramos also worked undercover narcotics and infiltrated the Cuban mob.

He’s 3X Las Vegas Police Officer of the Year and a native Las Vegan.

#LongIslandSerialKiller #LISK

Surviving the Survivor is the show that brings you the #BestGuests in all of #TrueCrime and is hosted by Emmy Award-Winning Host Joel Waldman. STS covers the biggest trending true crime cases along with breaking news. You can also find us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SurvivingTheSurvivor

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#STSNation,

Welcome to another episode of Surviving The Survivor, the podcast that brings you the #BestGuests in all of #TrueCrime…

New York police appear to have cracked a 13 year old case …

Evidence is building against accused Long Island Serial Killer Rex Heuermann who was back in Court this week.

#BestGuests:

Joseph L. Giacalone is a retired NYPD Sergeant SDS (Supervisor Detective Squad) and internationally recognized expert. He has an extensive background in criminal investigations. He has held many prestigious positions in the NYPD, but his favorite was the Commanding Officer of the Bronx Cold Case Squad. Joe has worked on and supervised hundreds of homicides, violent felonies, suicides and missing persons cases.

Joe has trained investigators from all over the United States and the world. In 2013, Joe found himself as part of a team training detectives on Intimate Partner Violence in Amman, Jordan. Joe has also been a 3 time guest speaker at CrimeCon (Nashville, Chicago, and New Orleans). Joseph is the author of The Criminal Investigative Function: A Guide for New Investigators 3rd Edition, published by Looseleaf Law, Inc.

Lisa Ribacoff is the Manager of International Investigative Group, Ltd., Credibility Assessment Division with offices in New York City, Long Island, Westchester, Beverly Hills, Boca Raton, FL, and London. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the American Polygraph Association and is President of the New York State Polygraph Examiners Association.

Ms. Ribacoff is currently being featured on both FUSE Media’s “Lie Detector”, and Vanity Fair’s “Tell the Truth” series which shows her administering polygraph demonstrations to various celebrities in the entertainment industry. Previously, she had been featured on MTV’s “Guy Code”, VH1’s “Love and Hip Hop”, World Wrestling Federation TV’s “Edge and Christian Show”, Fox 5’s GoodDay NY, The Rachael Ray Show, The Jeremy Kyle Show, The Bill Cunningham Show, Dr. Oz Show and various radio stations.

Mike King is the creator and host of Profiling Evil on YouTube and podcast. He also has the podcast Mapping Evil with Mike King in Southeast Asia.

He appears regularly on CourtTV, the Dr. Phil Show, NewsNation and other mainstream news and entertainment programs.

He served a 5-year term on the Board of Directors of the Cold Case Foundation before stepping down in 2021.

Mike also served as co-chair of the FBI’s ViCAP (Violent Criminal Apprehension Program) National Advisory Board and was a federal liaison officer during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.

Surviving the Survivor is the show that brings you the #BestGuests in all of #TrueCrime and is hosted by Emmy Award-Winning Host Joel Waldman. STS covers the biggest trending true crime cases along with breaking news. You can also find us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SurvivingTheSurvivor

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