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FILE - Suspected serial killer Jeffrey L. Dahmer sits in court for a hearing where he was charged with eight additional counts of first degree intentional homicide, bringing the total to 12, Aug. 7, 1991. (AP Photo/Jack Orton/Pool, File)

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Family members of victims react as they listen Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney during a news conference after Rex Heuermann, accused in Long Island's Gilgo Beach serial killings, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at Suffolk County Police Academy Gymnasium in Brentwood, N.Y. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

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Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney speaks during a news conference after Rex Heuermann, accused in Long Island's Gilgo Beach serial killings, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at Suffolk County Police Academy Gymnasium in Brentwood, N.Y. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

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Family members of victims react as they listen Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney during a news conference after Rex Heuermann, accused in Long Island's Gilgo Beach serial killings, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at Suffolk County Police Academy Gymnasium in Brentwood, N.Y. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

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A family member of the victims listens Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney during a press conference after Rex Heuermann, was accused in Long Island's infamous Gilgo Beach serial killings, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at Suffolk County Police Academy Gymnasium in Brentwood, New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney speaks during a news conference next to law enforcement members and family members of the victims after Rex Heuermann, accused in Long Island's infamous Gilgo Beach serial killings, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at Suffolk County Police Academy Gymnasium in Brentwood, New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Attorney Michael Brown speaks with Rex A. Heuermann before pleading guilty to murdering seven women in a string of long-unsolved crimes known as the Gilgo Beach killings, at a court hearing in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, N.Y., Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (James Carbone/69蹤獲day via AP, Pool)

Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney walks the hallway after leaving the courtroom as Rex Heuermann, accused in Long Island's infamous Gilgo Beach serial killings, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

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Asa Ellerup, center left, wife, of Rex Heuermann and Victoria Heuermann, right, walk the hallway after departs the courtroom as Rex Heuermann, accused in Long Island's infamous Gilgo Beach serial killings, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Attorney Gloria Allred, center left, alongside family members of the victims walk the hallway after leaving the courtroom as Rex Heuermann, accused in Long Island's infamous Gilgo Beach serial killings, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)