Rex Heuermann sentencing live updates: Gilgo Beach serial killer to face victims’ families after admitting to heinous crimes

It’s judgment day for Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann.

Heuermann, 62, is due to be sentenced today to three life sentences for the grisly murders of eight sex workers between 1993 and 2010 – but will first hear from more than a dozen relatives of his victims in Suffolk County court.

The confessed killer pleaded guilty to the slayings in April, admitting that he strangled the women, including an eighth victim that had not been previously linked to him.

The Post will update as those statements are read in court.

They’re birds of a feather.

Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann has found a sympathetic ear while he awaits a life sentence behind bars at a Long Island lockup — the notorious Happy Face Killer.

Keith Jesperson, a truck driver who got the moniker for signing taunting letters to cops and media outlets with a smiley face, was arrested in 1995 and confessed to killing eight women between 1990 and 1995 in California, Washington, Oregon, Florida, Nebraska and Wyoming.

That makes the ghoul an ideal but pal for Heuermann, a Massapequa Park architect who pleaded guilty in April to brutally killing eight sex workers between 1993 and 2010 and dumping them in remote areas.

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Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann choked his first victim to death inside his Dodge Ram pickup truck in November 1993 — a grisly murder that he later claimed wasn’t planned and “just happened.”

That changed over the next 17 years, as the Massapequa Park dad developed a meticulous, four-day killing system to torture and strangle seven other sex workers in his basement “kill room” while his family was away, according to the final chapter of “The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets.”

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Titled “The Confession,” the latest installment of the Peacock series in partnership with The Post reveals chilling new details of the serial killer’s decades-long reign of terror through jailhouse confessions to his family and a psychotherapist prior to his shocking guilty plea in a Suffolk County courtroom.

“He said that his demons got to him,” his daughter, Victoria Heuermann, told the producers. “When he was in a certain opportunity or there was a certain catalyst in front of him, that would start to create these dark urges. There was a sickness.

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The family of Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann is shunned, gawked at and forced to remain in the Massapequa Park home where the evil father brutally killed seven women, their lawyer told The Post.

Despite a hefty payout for their part in Peacock’s four-part documentary series, “The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets,” the killer’s kin can’t sell their house because of IRS liens and would be hard-pressed to even find a job, attorney Robert Macedonio said.

“If anything, it’s cost them money,” he said. “They’re unemployable at this point. Who’s hiring them? They are financially distraught because nobody’s hiring them, there’s no income.”

Their ties to Heuermann also affect their day-to-day lives, Macedonio added.

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Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann defiantly delivers a killer stare in a new mug shot released Tuesday — one day before he’s set to get shipped off to prison for life.

Heuermann, 62, admitted in court in April that he strangled eight sex workers to death and dumped their bodies in desolate stretches of Long Island between 1993 and 2010.

The plea deal came with a guaranteed sentence of three life terms, which is expected to be handed down in a Riverhead courthouse Wednesday.

The new mug shows the hulking architect with a chilling, defiant stare — a sharp contrast to the sinister smirk he flashed in court when he pleaded guilty.

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