The sister of one of Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann’s victims lashed out at him in court Wednesday, saying he believed women were “his to destroy” and accusing him of lacking any remorse for his horrifc crimes.
“He is a selfish, entitled man who felt like my sister and the others were his to destroy,” Danielle Mack said at the start of Heuermann’s sentencing hearing in Riverhead, New York, according to CNN.
Victim Valerie Mack’s sister also said Heuermann. 62, didn’t “have the humanity to feel remorse.”
open image in galleryHeuermann, wearing a black suit, blue shirt and light-colored tie, looked down with his hands lap as Danielle Mack spoke.
In a statement read by a prosecutor, Valerie Mack’s son, Benjamin “Aaron” Torres, said there was “no possible excuse” for Heuermann’s “evil and selfishness.”
open image in gallery“You will reap what you have sown. No one is exempt from that universal truth,” the statement added.
Heuermann, who strangled his victims and dismembered some, is set to be sentenced to life in prison without parole under terms of his guilty plea to murdering Valerie Mack and six other women: Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Lynn Costello, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Valerie Mack, Jessica Taylor and Sandra Costilla.
He also admitted killing an eighth woman, Karen Vergata, during his grisly crime spree, despite not having been charged in her slaying.
Relatives of seven victims, including
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