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Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:04]Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Humeman just pleaded guilty in court.

[00:00:09]The former New York City architect was arrested in 2023 and originally pleaded not guilty to killing seven women. Their bodies were found on Long Island. An eighth murder was later attended or added to those charges.

[00:00:22]>> Masipiqua Park, Long Island, 30 miles from Manhattan, a quiet suburb on the Southshore. The kind of place people are born in, grow up in, and leave. Rex Hyman never left. He was born here. He went to school here. He bought back the house his mother raised him in, and moved back into it as an adult. He raised his own family inside it, and eight women were murdered within 25 minutes of that address. over 17 years while he slept in it every night. The people who grew up with him say the answer starts with two words. Masipiqua Park sits on the southshore of Long Island, about 30 mi east of Manhattan.

[00:00:59]Close enough to commute into the city, far enough from the skyline to feel like its own world. Self-contained, familiar, generationally stable in the way that certain Long Island communities have always been. It is the kind of suburb that appears in the American imagination as the safe place, the stable place, the place where the lawns are kept and the schools are good and families plant roots that hold across generations. The kind of community where people know each other's names, know each other's children, know who went to school with who, and whose parents sat on the same bleachers at the same games every weekend for years. It is the kind of place that produces generation after generation. people who grow up and move on, who go to college somewhere else, build careers in other cities, raise their own families in neighborhoods that are not the ones they were raised in.

[00:01:46]That departure is so ordinary that nobody marks it when it happens. It is simply what people do when they become adults. They leave. Rex Andrew Hireman was born here on September 13th, 1963.

[00:01:59]His father was Theodore Hyerman, a World War II veteran who had served his country as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force, who later worked as an aerospace engineer and built things with his hands as a cabinet maker. His mother was Dolores Hyman. He had three older sisters and a younger brother. The family lived in a house on the Southshore, an ordinary house in an ordinary neighborhood. And by every visible measure, they were an ordinary American family in the middle of an ordinary American community. He went to school here. He graduated from Burner High School in 1981, class of 81, Southshore of Long Island. One of his classmates was a young man named Billy Baldwin, who would go on to become a Hollywood actor. Most of those classmates eventually left Masipiqua Park. They went to other cities, other states, other lives. They built careers in places they had chosen, in rooms they had selected, in communities they had arrived at deliberately. Rex Herman did not. When his first marriage to a woman named Elizabeth Ryan ended in 1991 after just one year, he did not take the opportunity to begin somewhere new. He came back in 1994. Three years after that marriage collapsed, Rex Hireman purchased his childhood home from his own mother for $170,000.

[00:03:21]He moved back into the same house where he had grown up, the same walls, the same floors, the same address on the same Southshore Street. Neighbors who had watched that block for decades would later describe something that stood out.

[00:03:34]Not because it was dramatic, but because of the contrast it presented against everything around it. The surrounding homes had been upgraded, maintained, modernized over the years. The neighborhood had evolved the way successful communities do, but the hireman house had not kept pace. It looked, neighbors said, frozen, run down in a way that stood out against the properties around it. Visually out of step with where the rest of the street had gone. Frozen. That word keeps returning in the accounts connected to Rex Hoyermon. He married his second wife, Assa Erup, in 1996. They raised two children inside that house, a daughter named Victoria and Erup's son, from a previous relationship, Christopher. He established his own firm, RH Consultants and Associates, and operated it out of an office on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan every morning, the commute into the city, every evening, back across the causeway that spans South Oyster Bay, back to the Southshore, back to Masipiqua Park, back to that address. Behavioral analysts who study the geography of serial killers have a specific term for this pattern.

[00:04:41]They call it territorial anchoring. The the documented tendency of a specific category of almishi predator to operate within the psychological radius of their origin point to return again and again to the place where they were formed. The place that organized their earliest understanding of power, safety, and control. Gilgo Beach, where the bodies of eight women were eventually found, is a 25minute drive from that house across a causeway right across the bay. Rex Hyman earned a bachelor's degree in architecture from the New York Institute of Technology. Architecture is a profession defined by a very specific kind of intelligence, the ability to take a complex system that does not yet exist and envision it completely before a single physical element has been put in place. to design environments that control how people move, where they go, what they are permitted to access, and what is kept hidden from them. A building is not spontaneous. Every detail is deliberate. Everything is planned in advance down to the millimeter before construction begins.

[00:05:46]Criminologist Scott Bond, who had accurately profiled the Gilgo Beach killer back in 2011, two full years before Rex Hoyman was ever publicly named as a suspect, described Hoyman in 2023 as a psychopath. And he connected Hyman's professional choices to his psychological profile in a way that investigators found difficult to dismiss. Bon argued that the controlling and doineering dynamic hireman had allegedly experienced in his formative years may have drawn him toward a profession that gave him maximum legitimate authority over physical environments. That the need for control, which began somewhere in that Massipua Park household, expressed itself first in his career as the sanctioned professional exercise of total design authority and then eventually in something else entirely. The people who went to school with Rex Hoyerman remembered him differently than the polished professional his clients encountered. They remembered a boy who was quiet, socially awkward, often bullied, intelligent in a way that set him apart rather than drew people in.

[00:06:53]And they remembered something very specific about how he talked about his mother. What they remembered was and what behavioral analysts say it predicts is what this is about. Before we go further, hit subscribe and turn on notifications so you do not miss future episodes when it drops. Now, back to Rex Hyman because what his classmates said about his childhood is the thing the mainstream coverage moved past without stopping. Theodore Hyman died in 1975.

[00:07:20]Rex was 11 years old. Some accounts say 12. The exact age varies across the record, but the year does not. 1975. And what that year meant for the household where Rex Hireman was growing up is consistent across every account that has surfaced. His father had been a World War II veteran, a man who had served his country as a second lieutenant in the Air Force, a man who had worked in aerospace engineering and built things with his hands as a cabinet maker.

[00:07:46]Defined in the accounts of those who knew him by precision and by service and by the quiet competence that characterized men of that generation who had survived something enormous and come home to build ordinary lives in the suburbs. He had been the structural authority figure in the Masipiqua Park home. the presence that organized the household around something outside of what would become in the years after his death the defining relationship of Rex Hyman's development. And then that presence was gone. Rex was a boy, 11 or 12 years old, three older sisters, a younger brother, left in a house on the southshore of Long Island with a mother who, by the account of every person who knew the family was the kind of woman who held everything tightly, left in a neighborhood he had never moved through independently. At an age when the developmental foundations of adult identity are still being actively constructed, still being shaped by the daily experience of navigating a world that pushes back. What happens in a household when the structural authority figure disappears before adolescence is complete? When a boy who is already described by the people around him as quiet, shy, and socially awkward, who already has no strong peer connections that might provide an alternative center of gravity, suddenly has no adult male presence in the home at all. Behavioral analysts who study the developmental histories of organized violent offenders have examined this question with considerable rigor. The FBI's own published research on the developmental patterns of sexual satists. Research produced by the same behavioral analysis unit that is now studying Rex Hairman under the terms of his guilty plea identifies early parental loss and specifically paternal absence during late childhood and early adolescence as a factor that appears with disproportionate frequency in the case histories of this category of offender.

[00:09:39]This is not a claim that every boy who loses his father too soon becomes dangerous. That conclusion is not supported by the data and it is not what the analysts are arguing. Millions of children lose parents before they should and go on to build healthy, stable, connected lives. The loss itself is not the mechanism. What the research identifies is a specific convergence, a combination of factors arriving together in a particular sequence in a particular kind of developmental environment that produces a specific and identifiable outcome. The paternal loss is one factor. The social isolation that follows is another. The chronic peer rejection is a third. And then there is the relationship that according to every person who knew Rex Hyman during those years stepped into the space left by his father and filled it completely and without leaving room for anything else.

[00:10:32]The relationship with his mother. The classmates who attended Burner High School with Rex Hoyman through the late 1970s and into 1981 described him in terms that were notably consistent across accounts. quiet, shy, socially awkward, intelligent, and someone who was often bullied, not someone who fought back, not someone who acted out or drew attention to himself through disruption or defiance. The picture that emerges from these accounts is of a boy who absorbed the cruelty of his peers and withdrew further into himself, into his home, into the one relationship in his life that never rejected him. The bullying matters here in a way that is specific and important to understand.

[00:11:12]Chronic peer rejection during adolescent development, particularly when it arrives in combination with social isolation and an unusually close in meshed bond with a single parental figure is one of the most extensively documented patterns in the clinical and investigative literature on violent offenders. It is not incidental background. It is a structural element of the developmental environment that produces the psychology under discussion here. Here is what the bullying tells us that is specific. Rex Hyman did not have a functioning peer world that could act as a counterweight to what was happening at home. Most adolescents use their social world, their friendships, their group memberships, their experience of belonging somewhere outside the family as the mechanism through which they construct an independent identity separate from their parents. They spend time away from home. They build a self that exists in context their parents cannot see and cannot control. That process is not dramatic. It does not announce itself. But it is the developmental foundation of functional adult aunt me. The ability as an adult to exist as a person who is genuinely separate from the people who raised you.

[00:12:27]Rex Hireman did not build that foundation. The bullying meant his peer world was not a refuge. It was a source of additional pain that drove him back toward the one place that felt safe. And the one consistent source of safety in all of the accounts of everyone who knew him during those years was his mother.

[00:12:46]One classmate speaking to the New York Post anonymously, having attended Barner High School with Hyman, described something they had not forgotten. Rex Hyman, they said, would tell people around him at school things like, "I have to get home to my mother." That is a direct quote from a classmate reported and sourced. And the classmate added something else. They said the the mother seemed to be his all. The people who went to school with Rex Hiremans, the ones who heard him say those things, who watched how he talked about her and went carefully neutral when anyone asked about his father, used two words to describe what they observed. Behavioral analysts who later heard those two words said what they described does not stay contained inside a childhood that it builds pressure over years and decades that it eventually looks for an outlet.

[00:13:38]What those words are and what the analysts said they predict is still coming. By the time Hyman reached adulthood, he had constructed two worlds and the boundary between them was perfect. The first world was the professional world. An architect with his own firm, a Fifth Avenue office, clients who hired him to design and oversee complex structures, blueprints, deliverables, control exercised through legitimate channels in a context where his authority was sanctioned and expected and respected. A man with a business card and a Manhattan address and a professional reputation built over decades. The Second World carried a name that was not his own. Law enforcement confirmed and prosecutors stated in open court on April 8th, 2026 that Rex Hyman had created an alias. He called himself Thomas Hawk. Under that name, he communicated with dozens of sex workers.

[00:14:31]Under that name, he built and maintained an extensive collection of torture pornography. Under that name, he operated a parallel existence that his marriage, his neighborhood, his professional life, and his family had no visibility into whatsoever. He used burner phones. He found victims through Craigslist. He lured them with the promise of money. He strangled them. He wrapped their bodies in burlap. He drove them to Gilgo Beach and to other remote locations on Long Island and left them there. Then he drove back across the causeway, back to the house, back to the daughter and the stepson upstairs, back to the wife who, according to law enforcement, was always out of state on the nights of the killings. He did this for 17 years. But it was what investigators found on his computer, a document he had tried to delete, that forensic examiners pulled back from the drive that the Suffach County District Attorney said he had never seen anything like in his entire career. It was a Microsoft Word document, a written blueprint for murder. It had sections.

[00:15:33]It had headers. It had a list of supplies. It contained the locations of dump sites cataloged and recorded. And it had personal operational notes, reminders to himself, written in the precise language of a man reviewing a process he intended to continue refining. Among those notes, a reminder to burn his gloves after each operation, and a note to himself that read verbatim, "Consider a hit to the neck next time." He had created it in the year 2000. He had updated it over the years that followed. The way a professional maintains a living document. This is not the record of an impulsive man. This is not the output of a spiral or a breakdown or a loss of control. This is someone who sat down at a keyboard. The same way an architect sits down at a drafting table and documented his operation in writing with sections and supply inventories and notes for operational improvement and then maintained that document the way you maintain any important working file.

[00:16:30]The 17 years is not just a number. The written murder manual is not just evidence. Together they describe a psychological architecture that the FBI's behavioral analysis unit says does not emerge from nowhere. It is built. It is built early. And the people who knew Rex Herman as a boy say they saw the foundation being laid. In 1990, Rex Hireman married a woman named Elizabeth Ryan. The marriage lasted one year. No public record explains specifically what broke it. But what happened in the immediate aftermath is precisely documented. He did not move. He did not attempt to build a life somewhere that did not carry the weight of his earliest years. He bought back the house.

[00:17:12]Criminologist Scott Bond described this pattern in the context of Hyerman's bond with his mother as somewhat unconventional and emotionally incestuous. He described Dolores Hyman as controlling and doineering. And he said that this specific dynamic, that specific mother, that specific son, that specific bond may have played a significant role in shaping what Hyman became. that it was something a single failed marriage in a man's late 20s could not dismantle or displace. The FBI's behavioral analysis unit, which Highermen agreed to cooperate with as part of his April 2026 plea, will spend years trying to trace the exact sequence from that Masipiqua Park childhood to eight women strangled over 17 years.

[00:17:59]Retired FBI special agent Richard Kolko speaking in April 2026 described >> working in Manhattan as an architect and yet somehow he had this horrible side to him and and in some way he's going to validate it or or explain or try and explain it >> precisely what the BAU will be pursuing.

[00:18:20]What made him deviate? Kolko said, from probably living a normal life, raising a kid, being married, living on Long Island, and then all of a sudden become a deviant serial killer. The people who grew up with Rex Hoyman think they know part of that answer. Two words, that is all they said. We are at the midpoint of this episode, and what comes next is the payoff this entire story has been building toward. If you are not subscribed, now is the time. Hit subscribe and turn on notifications. The sentencing of Rex Hireman is on June 17th, 2026. And that is the final legal chapter of this case. Stay with us. Here is what those two words were. The classmates who grew up with Rex Hairman.

[00:19:04]The ones who watched him in the hallways of Barner High School, who listened to him talk about getting home, who noticed how his face changed when his mother came up in conversation and went carefully blank when anyone mentioned his father. Those classmates used two words to describe what they saw. Mama's boy. That was the first thing. That was the phrase that the people who knew Rex Hireman as a teenager applied consistently and without hesitation to the relationship they watched him carry through adolescence and into adulthood not as an insult, not as a judgment, as a description, as the most accurate shortorthhand they had for what they observed in him every day. And the second thing they said about his mother, Dolores Hyman, was one word, controlling. A mama's boy with a controlling mother. When criminologist Scott Bond heard those descriptors applied to Rex Hyman in the weeks following the July 2023 arrest, he did not pause before responding. Bon, whose 2011 profile of the Gilgo beach killer had pointed to the exact psychological architecture that investigators later confirmed in Hireman, said the relationship he was hearing described was somewhat unconventional and emotionally incestuous. He said Dolores Hireman appeared from all available accounts to have been controlling and doineering. And he said that this specific dynamic, that specific mother, that specific son, that specific bond may have played a significant role in shaping his warped personality. That is a credentialed criminologist who spent 12 years studying this killer's profile before the arrest. Not speculation, not retrospective guesswork. And what he described, the clinical framework underneath those two words, is what the behavioral science literature has been documenting for decades. The FBI's behavioral science unit, the same division now studying Rex Hireman under the terms of his guilty plea, has conducted structured interviews with hundreds of convicted killers over five decades of operation. Their research forms the intellectual and methodological foundation of criminal profiling as it is practiced by law enforcement agencies around the world.

[00:21:13]Within that body of research, there is a developmental pattern that analysts describe as appearing with disproportionate frequency in the case histories of organized, methodical, sexually motivated, violent offenders.

[00:21:26]The clinical term is maternal inshment.

[00:21:29]It describes a specific relational dynamic in which a child, typically a son, does not complete the developmental process of psychological separation from his mother. That separation is not a dramatic event. It does not happen at a single identifiable moment. It is a gradual process that unfolds across adolescence and early adulthood as a child develops relationships, autonomy, identity, and a sense of self that exists independently of the family home.

[00:21:58]In a healthy developmental trajectory, that process produces an adult who carries the influence of his parents without being defined by it. Who can make choices, form bonds, and build a life that is genuinely his own. In the enshed dynamic, that process does not complete. The mother remains into adulthood the primary emotional anchor.

[00:22:20]The external world, peer relationships, romantic partnerships, professional structures never fully replaces or displaces the original bond. And the adult who carries this pattern into his 40s, his 50s, his 60s is an adult who has been operating without a stable autonomous internal foundation for his entire adult life. Building the external structures of normaly, career, marriage, children, neighborhood on top of a foundation that was never properly laid.

[00:22:50]Maternal inshment does not always look dangerous from the outside. In a significant number of documented cases and Rex Hoyman is among the most striking recent examples, it looks indistinguishable from a normal life. A professional career, a marriage, a family, a suburban house, a daily commute. But underneath that architecture of normaly the pressure builds a need for a kind of control that the legitimate structures of adult life, a drafting table, a client meeting, a family dinner can never fully satisfy. A need that the inshed individual cannot name and cannot resolve through ordinary channels because it originates in a developmental wound that was present long before any of those structures existed. Bond drew a direct comparison between Rex Hyman and David Burkowitz, the son of Sam, who carried his own documented deep-seated maternal attachment pathology into the murders that terrorized New York City in the 1970s. Who knows, Bon said, what lurked beneath his facade? The behavioral analysts have a consistent answer to that question. The facade is not incidental. The facade is the mechanism.

[00:24:01]The person most skilled at maintaining it is the person who learned earliest in childhood in a house where certain parts of the self had to stay hidden that concealment was the only available strategy. Rex Hyman was an architect, not metaphorically, literally. A man trained and paid to build structures that controlled the experience of everyone who entered them, to determine what was visible and what was not. To decide in advance what people could access and what stayed behind a wall.

[00:24:29]His alias, Thomas Hawk, was not recklessness. It was a designed compartment built the way you build a room, with walls, with a door, with deliberate structural separation from every other part of the building it sits inside. He used that compartment to make calls on burner phones to women he found on Craigslist. He communicated with dozens of women through that identity.

[00:24:50]He lured them. He strangled them. He wrapped them in burlap. He drove them to Gilgo Beach and to isolated locations across Long Island and left them there.

[00:25:00]Then he drove back 25 minutes back to the house, back to the address where his children were asleep, back to the wife who was always out of state on the nights of the killings, back to the professional, the husband, the neighbors, the person that every single person in his life believed he was. The distance between those two lives was 25 minutes by car and Rex Hireman crossed it for 17 years without anyone connecting them. Behavioral analysts call this compartmentalization, the ability to maintain functionally separate psychological identities across completely different contexts with no observable bleed between them. It is not a skill that appears fully formed in adulthood. It is practiced. It is reinforced. It is built over a lifetime by individuals who learned early and thoroughly that there were aspects of their inner life that could not survive exposure. A boy who grew up in a controlling household. A boy who was bullied at school and had no functioning peer world to absorb the impact. A boy who told his classmates that he had to get home to his mother. That boy learned the discipline of concealment long before he ever purchased his first burner phone. Sandra Costila was 28 years old when she was killed in November 1993. She was from Trinidad and Tobago, living in New York City. Her body was found by hunters in a wooded area in North Sea, Long Island, roughly 60 mi from Gilgo Beach. She would not be connected to Rex Hoyer for 31 years. Rex Hoyerman was 30 years old in November 1993. Then came Valerie Mack, Jessica Taylor, Moren Brainard Barnes, Melissa Barthllamy, Megan Waterman, Amber Costello, and Karen Veretta, who was last heard from on Valentine's Day 1996 at 34 years old. Her legs and her feet were found that same year on Fire Island. Her skull was found 15 years later in 2011 near Tay Beach in Nassau County. Eight women spanning 17 years.

[00:27:02]One man, the same method every time.

[00:27:05]Strangulation, the same preparation, burlap wrapping, the same geography, the same discipline, the same return night after night to the same house, the same address, the same neighborhood. On April 8th, 2026, exactly 1,000 days after his arrest, Rex Hireman stood in a Suffach County courtroom in a dark suit, hands shackled behind his back. The gallery behind him was packed with media with investigators who had worked this case for decades and with the families of the women he had killed. Some of those families wept as he spoke. He answered the district attorney's questions in what reporters in the room described as a matterof fact manner.

[00:27:45]>> Best interest to plead guilty rather than go to trial.

[00:27:48]>> Yes, your honor.

[00:27:49]>> Are you satisfied with the manner in which your attorneys represented you in this case?

[00:27:52]>> Yes, I am.

[00:27:53]>> I must say that the attorneys on both sides of this case have been excellent, unbelievable lawyers. Do you understand that by pleading guilty to a charge that is the same as he would have gone to trial and been found guilty of that charge?

[00:28:04]>> Yes, your honor.

[00:28:05]>> He confirmed the strangulations. He confirmed the burlap. He confirmed the dismemberments. He confirmed the burner phones. He confirmed all of it calmly with his gaze fixed straight ahead. He did not look back at the gallery once.

[00:28:19]As part of his April 8th, 2026 guilty plea, Rex Hyman agreed to cooperate fully with the FBI's behavioral analysis unit. This is not a standard provision in a guilty plea agreement. It is not routine language inserted as a formality. The BAU works with convicted offenders selectively and the opportunity to conduct extended structured sessions with a living convicted organized serial killer whose case is as thoroughly documented as Hoyman's is in the language of behavioral research extraordinary.

[00:28:54]Retired FBI special agent Richard Kolko speaking to News12 in April 2026 described what that cooperation means in practice. The BAU Kolko explained are the people most publicly known as profilers, but they are more precisely academics and researchers whose findings on individual cases are synthesized and made available to law enforcement agencies across the United States and internationally. The knowledge they extract from a subject like hireman does not stay in a file in Quantico. It becomes part of the institutional knowledge base that shapes how investigators across the country approach the next case, the next suspect, the next set of behaviors that do not quite add up on a suburban street somewhere in America. The central question they will pursue with Rex Hoyman is the one that has defined this entire investigation. What made him deviate? Not in abstract terms, in specific, traceable, sequential ones.

[00:29:56]What was the developmental pathway? What were the pivot points? What was the chain of causation that ran from a quiet boy in Masipiqua Park who could not stop talking about getting home to his mother to a 62-year-old man in a Suffach County courtroom who admitted to strangling eight women across 17 years and described it without visible distress.

[00:30:16]The FBI will sit across from him and ask him to trace it, to name the moments, to describe from the inside what the internal experience of that development felt like as it was happening. Whatever answers he gives, however incomplete, however shaped by the particular psychology of a man who spent decades concealing everything he actually was, those answers will be studied, analyzed, cross-referenced against the existing behavioral literature and added to the body of knowledge that investigators use to identify the next one before the bodies are found. That is the promise of the BIO or BAU's work. And that is why the cooperation clause in the plea agreement matters in a way that extends far beyond the specifics of Rex Herman's case. The remains of the first four victims were found in December 2010. Rex Hyman had been killing since 1993. 17 years, eight women, a house 25 minutes from the dump sites, a truck that a witness had described to investigators in precise detail in 2010. A first generation Chevrolet Avalanche, a vehicle distinctive enough to appear in the original investigation record. An alias operating on burner phones, a written murder manual maintained on a personal computer in a house where his family slept. None of it was connected to the man on Fifth Avenue for 17 years.

[00:31:35]The task force that eventually identified hireman as a suspect in 2022 did so through patient methodical accumulation of overlapping forensic evidence. DNA from a hair found in the burlap wrapping used on victims. DNA from a pizza crust retrieved from the trash outside his Manhattan office. Hair found on or near three of the victims that match the DNA profile of his wife.

[00:32:03]transferred through ordinary household contact without her knowledge, without her awareness that anything of the kind was possible. Surveillance footage of his avalanche billing records for the burner phones and recovered from his computer after an attempted deletion and internet search history that included a query that investigators found remarkable in the context of everything else they had found. Rex Hyman had typed into a search engine from inside his own home while the investigation was ongoing and his family was in the house. Why hasn't the Long Island serial killer been caught? He was monitoring the case, tracking its progress, measuring the distance between investigators and himself from behind the same walls where he had grown up in the neighborhood he had never left, in the house he had purchased from his mother 3 years after his first marriage ended and moved back into and never left again. The warning signs that behavioral analysts now identify in his developmental history.

[00:33:00]The maternal inshment, the chronic peer rejection and social isolation, the compartmentalization, the territorial anchoring, the professional life built around the design and control of physical spaces were not invented after the arrest. They were present. They were observable. The classmates who knew Rex Hermon before any of this happened used words to describe what they saw in him that map precisely onto the clinical framework the FBI had been building for 50 years.

[00:33:30]The system failed to connect what was visible in his development to what was possible in his behavior. That failure took place over 17 years and it cost eight women everything they had.

[00:33:42]Sentencing is scheduled for June 17th, 2026. Rex Hoyermanman will receive three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole followed by four consecutive sentences of 25 years to life. He will never leave a prison. He will die inside one. Rex Hireman was born in Massapiqua Park in 1963. He grew up in a house on the southshore of Long Island in a quiet suburban neighborhood that looked from every visible angle exactly like the kind of place where nothing like this could happen. He went to school a few blocks away. He graduated. He earned a degree. Came back, built a career, and came back again. When the first chapter of his adult life fell apart, he came back. He raised his children in the same house his mother had raised him in. He drove to Manhattan every morning and came home to that house every night, year after year for decades. Across the bay in the burlap wrapped remains of eight women scattered along remote stretches of Long Island, the other half of his existence waited to be found. He strangled his first victim in 1993. He strangled his last in 2010. He kept coming home. On April 8th, 2026, 1,000 days after his arrest, he stood in a Suffach County courtroom and admitted to all of it. No remorse visible in his posture. No backward glance at the gallery where the families of the women he had killed were seated. No visible distress, just a man answering questions in a matter-of-fact tone. Gaze fixed straight ahead.

[00:35:11]>> Discuss this case with your attorney?

[00:35:12]Yes, I have.

[00:35:13]>> After discussions with your lawyer, do you feel it's in your best interest to plead guilty rather than go to trial?

[00:35:17]>> Yes, your honor.

[00:35:18]>> Are you satisfied with the manner in which your attorney's represented you in this case?

[00:35:22]>> Yes, I am.

[00:35:22]>> Describing the murders of eight human beings with the same detachment one might bring to reviewing the details of a completed project. He confirmed the strangulations. He confirmed the burlap.

[00:35:32]He confirmed the dismemberments. He confirmed the burner phones and the alias and the 17 years and all of it calmly without looking back. The FBI's behavioral analysis unit will now spend years studying him. They will ask him to account for himself, not just for what he did, but for how he became the person who did it. They will sit across from him in a room somewhere and ask him to trace the sequence from the beginning, from Masipiqua Park, from the hallways of Burner High School, from the classmates who remembered a boy who could not stop talking about getting home. And that sequence, if Rex Herman tells it honestly, if the BAU extracts it with the rigor that defines their work, begins in a house in Masipiqua Park with a boy who told his classmates he had to get home to his mother. With a mother who was by every account of every person who knew her, his entire world with a father who died before adolescence was finished and left a vacancy that the developmental record and the 17 years of what followed suggests was never properly addressed with a peer world that provided cruelty instead of belonging and drove him further back toward the one relationship that never pushed him away with two words, mama's boy, and one more word, controlling. that a group of people who went to the same high school as Rex Hoyman used to describe what they had watched and that a criminologist when he heard those words said described a psychological condition that does not stay contained that builds that eventually looks for an outlet that the ordinary structures of adult life cannot provide. Rex Hoyman never left Masipiqua Park. He bought the house back. He raised his family in it. He crossed the causeway and crossed it back for 17 years and came home every time to the same address where all of it had started. The question the FBI is now working to answer. The question that may take years of sessions and transcripts and analysis to fully resolve and that may ultimately never be answered in the complete terms we want is whether Rex Hireman ever had the psychological architecture to leave at all. Whether the developmental environment that produced him had left him with any genuine capacity for the separation that leaving requires. Whether what looked from the outside like a man who simply never moved far from home was in fact something more specific and more troubling. A man who was psychologically incapable of becoming anyone other than the person that house and that relationship and that childhood had made him. and whether somewhere in the honest answer to that question there is a map that law enforcement can use to find the next one before 17 years go by. If this episode gave you something to think about, share it. This case matters beyond the headlines. The question of how a man kills eight women over 17 years in a suburb 30 m from Manhattan without anyone connecting it to him is not a question with a simple answer. And the conversation it demands about how we identify these patterns early is one worth having at scale. The sentencing is on June 17th, 2026. That is the final legal chapter of Rex Herman's case.

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