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.”
Heuermann, wearing a black suit, blue shirt and light-colored tie, looked down with his hands lap as Danielle Mack spoke.
open image in galleryIn 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.”
“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.
open image in galleryHe also admitted killing an eighth woman, Karen Vergata, during his grisly crime spree, despite not having been charged in her slaying.
Many of Heuermann’s victims were sex workers and Danielle Mack’s sister acknowledged her struggles but said Valerie Mack “had a fire inside of her that lit up the world around her.”
Adoptive mother JoAnn Mack also told Heuermann in court: “You can never give back what you took from her and her son. You took away a lifetime for him of his mother’s love.”
“She had hopes, and she had dreams, and you took it all away from her,” JoAnn Mack said before warning Heuerman, “Unless you get yourself right before God, Valerie is the one who is free today, and you are not.”
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