Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann’s lawyer revealed the two key reasons why he suddenly flipped and fessed up to viciously killing eight sex workers after years of maintaining his innocence.
The hulking Massapequa Park architect’s defense attorney, Michael J. Brown, claimed his client finally decided to cop to the savage killings that have rocked Long Island for three decades to shield the victims’ families and his own from hearing the grisly details of his cold-blooded slayings at trial.
“He certainly wanted to save the families of the victims the ordeal of going to trial, coupled with saving his family that ordeal — it was definitely a factor,” Brown told reporters Wednesday at Suffolk County court.
Brown added that the twisted killer’s decision also came after two devastating rulings by Judge Timothy Mazzei — allowing all DNA evidence to be used and refusing to sever the charges into separate trials.
He called the evidence “overwhelming.”