By Eric Levenson, CNN

(CNN) — The man accused of killing seven women and discarding their remains on a stretch of Long Island, New York, over three decades is expected to plead guilty in a long-awaited court hearing Wednesday.

Rex Heuermann, a 62-year-old architect based in Massapequa, has been in custody since July 2023 and has pleaded not guilty to the murders of seven women, including four whose bodies were found on Gilgo Beach in 2010.

He is set to appear in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead at 11 a.m., per a court spokesperson.

According to a source familiar with the case, Heuermann is expected to “take responsibility” for all seven murder charges. No deal was struck with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office in exchange for this plea, according to the source.

The charges carry a sentence of life without the possibility of parole. A trial had been set for September.

Heuermann’s attorney Michael J. Brown did not respond to a CNN request for comment.

A guilty plea would represent the end of a case that dates as far back as 1993 and took decades for investigators to solve – frustrating victims’ families, who felt the investigation was not taken seriously.

The case began in earnest with the 2010 disappearance of 23-year-old Shannan Gilbert. The search for her whereabouts led to the discovery of at least 10 sets of human remains, primarily young female sex workers, along Ocean Parkway and launched the hunt for a suspected serial killer.

But the investigation went cold for over a decade. Meanwhile, the Gilgo Beach killings were featured in an acclaimed non-fiction book, a Netflix movie and true-crime documentaries.

In 2022, Suffolk County launched a multiagency task force to reexamine the killings and soon built a case against Heuermann using DNA, hairs, cell phone records and witness testimony, according to court records.

Heuermann was arrested in July 2023 and charged with the killings of three of the “Gilgo Four” victims, and prosecutors have since charged him with four more murders in incidents dating as far back as 1993.

In all, he is accused of killing seven people: Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Amber Costello, Jessica Taylor, Valerie Mack and Sandra Costilla.

For the victims’ families, a guilty plea would be a relief after years of waiting for justice, said Robert Kolker, the author of “Lost Girls,” the 2013 non-fiction book about the killings.

“The point of ‘Lost Girls’ was that the killer chose his victims because he thought that they wouldn’t be missed. And the tragedy is that for many years he was right,” Kolker told CNN.

“What this new energy around the case, and the arrest, and what this possible guilty plea show is that perhaps this is changing. We understand the humanity of victims in cases like these in a way that we didn’t years ago.”

The seven victims

Over nearly two decades, a number of women in their 20s who police said worked as escorts or sex workers went missing on Long Island.

The remains of Sandra Costilla were found in North Sea in 1993. Partial remains of Valerie Mack, a 24-year-old Philadelphia mother who worked as an escort, were found in Manorville in November 2000, with further remains discovered in 2011, Read more

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) - Sean McGrath earned his first collegiate victory with five scoreless innings while Alejandro Garza notched his fourth four-hit game of the 2026 season as Cal Poly defeated San Jose State 11-4 on Tuesday inside Baggett Stadium.

A freshman right-hander, McGrath (1-2) struck out six, scattered five hits, one in each of the innings he pitched, and issued no walks before giving way to four relievers in the midweek non-conference contest. Josh Morano, Troy Cooper, Chris Downs and Arlo Pendleton each tossed an inning as Cal Poly improved to 4-1 in midweek games.

Cal Poly improved its overall mark to 18-13 with its fifth straight win over the Spartans. San Jose State fell to 13-19, losing for the seventh time in its last 10 games.

With his fifth game of three or more hits over the last three weeks, Garza has elevated his batting average 59 points to .336. The two-time All-Big West first-team honoree singled four times Tuesday, scoring twice and driving in one run in the seventh inning.

Dante Vachini, Ryan Tayman, Gavin Spiridonoff and Jake Downing all added two hits as Cal Poly outhit the visiting Spartans 16-8. One of Tayman's hits was a run-scoring double in the first inning while Spiridonoff hit his second home run of the year in the third frame, a two-run shot to left-center field.

Cal Poly sprinted to a 4-0 lead in the first inning with Tayman's double, a two-run single by Antonio Castro and a sacrifice fly by Dylan Kordic. The Mustangs added three more runs in the third frame on a run-scoring single by Kordic and Spiridonoff's two-run home run.

Garza singled leading off the sixth inning and eventually scored on a wild pitch. The Mustangs added three more in the seventh on a Spartan fielding error in the outfield and RBI singles by Garza and Cam Hoiland for an 11-1 advantage.

San Jose State scored a run in the sixth and added three unearned runs in the eighth. Alex Fernandes, Peyton Rowles and Rocco Caballero each produced two hits for the Spartans.

Suffering the loss was San Jose State starter Tyler Albanese (1-1) as the junior right-hander allowed four runs and three hits in the first inning, his only frame of the game. Spartan head coach Brad Sanfilippo used seven pitchers in the game.

Tuesday's game will be the lone meeting between the two schools this season. Another game scheduled for Feb. 17 at Excite Ballpark was rained out and will not be made up.

Cal Poly plays its next two weekend series on the road, visiting No. 7 Oregon State for three non-conference games this weekend and Big West leader UC San Diego on April 17-19.

Sandwiched between the two series will be a midweek game versus Pepperdine next Tuesday (April 14) at Baggett Stadium, starting at 5 p.m.

(Article courtesy of Cal Poly Athletics)

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Análisis por Aaron Blake, CNN

A estas alturas, no es ninguna novedad que a los demócratas les esté yendo muy bien en las elecciones especiales y otras contiendas celebradas desde los comicios presidenciales de 2024. Su historial reciente es más que evidente.

Pero incluso para sus estándares recientes, el martes fue una muy buena noche para la oposición, de ​​hecho, una de las mejores de la era Trump.

En Georgia, un estado clave en la política estadounidense, lograron su mejor resultado de la era Trump en una elección especial para el Congreso, en más de treinta y seis contiendas.

Y en Wisconsin, posiblemente el estado indeciso más importante del país, la candidata estatal a la Corte Suprema, alineado con el Partido Demócrata, obtuvo una victoria aplastante por un amplio margen.

Quizás la contienda más seguida del martes fue la elección especial para el distrito 14 de Georgia, que representaba la excongresista Marjorie Taylor Greene. Después de todo, Greene se ha reinventado últimamente como crítica de Trump, y existía cierta duda sobre si la guerra con Irán podría perjudicar a los republicanos.

Si bien es difícil aislar las causas, los resultados ciertamente no fueron alentadores para el Partido Republicano.

El republicano Clay Fuller ganó la contienda, como se esperaba, en un distrito que el presidente Donald Trump ganó por 37 puntos en 2024. Pero con casi todos los votos escrutados, Fuller ganaba por menos de 12 puntos.

Eso supone un rendimiento positivo de 25 puntos para el candidato demócrata, Shawn Harris.

Según datos recopilados por CNN, esto representaría el mayor resultado de los demócratas en una elección especial desde que Trump asumió el cargo por primera vez en 2017.

Su mejor resultado anterior fue un rendimiento de 23 puntos porcentuales en el primer distrito de Florida el año pasado.

La contienda en Georgia consolida un panorama muy favorable para los demócratas en estas recientes elecciones especiales al Congreso. Han superado sistemáticamente las expectativas en ellas durante las presidencias de Trump, pero ahora la mitad de sus mejores resultados (entre los diez primeros) se han producido desde las presidenciales de 2024.

Los demócratas también mejoraron notablemente su desempeño desde la primera ronda de votación del 10 de marzo, en los primeros días de la guerra con Irán.

En aquel entonces, los candidatos demócratas sumaban casi el 40 % de los votos. Harris obtuvo este martes alrededor del 44 %. Esto ocurrió incluso cuando los republicanos a nivel nacional tomaron la sorprendente decisión de invertir dinero en la contienda.

Las elecciones en Wisconsin no tuvieron tanta repercusión, lo que contrastó enormemente con la contienda por otro puesto en la misma corte hace un año.

Quizás recuerden aquella disputa electoral de 2025, protagonizada en gran medida por Elon Musk —y que marcó el principio del fin de su etapa como figura clave de la administración Trump y del Departamento de Eficiencia Gubernamental (DOGE)—, en la que el candidato republicano perdió por 10 puntos.

El resultado otorgó a los liberales una mayoría de 4 a 3 en el tribunal.

La contienda de este año fue más tranquila, en gran parte porque no estaba en juego el control de la Corte Suprema.

Pero los resultados fueron, aun así, bastante notables.

La candidata demócra

By Alex Stambaugh, Emma Tucker, CNN

(CNN) — Two men accused of trying to detonate makeshift bombs during protests near New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s residence last month detailed in a notebook and through audio recordings how they hoped their attack would kill dozens of people, according to an indictment released Tuesday.

Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, who were arrested on March 7 outside Gracie Mansion, were charged with eight crimes, including providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction for the ISIS-inspired attack, federal prosecutors said.

“All I know is I want to start terror bro” and “I want to petrify these people,” Kayumi told Balat on the morning of the attack, according to dashcam video captured while the two traveled from Pennsylvania to Manhattan, the indictment says.

While detailing their plans during the exchange, Balat predicted they were “gonna kill about 8 to 16 people,” or as many as 30 to 60 people if the area of the attack was crowded, according to the document.

No devices exploded and no one was injured in the attack, which unfolded at an anti-Islam demonstration and a counterprotest during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, however the NYPD said the attack was capable of causing “serious injury or death.”

Mamdani, the city’s first Muslim mayor, and his wife Rama Duwaji were not home at the time, he said.

The indictment details evidence obtained from the vehicle allegedly used by Balat and Kayumi, US citizens from Pennsylvania, including a handwritten notebook and approximately three days of dashcam video and audio recordings.

The notebook included steps of their plan, including a list of ingredients and equipment needed for mixing explosives and steps for constructing a bomb.

Elsewhere in the notebook, were details of an apparent alternative plan for an attack using a vehicle and a list of possible targets, “including ‘festivals,’ ‘parades,’ ‘protest,’ and ‘celebrations,’” the document says.

The dashcam recordings captured during their drive from Pennsylvania to Manhattan detailed discussions of how they would conduct the attack, the likely outcome of the attack, and how they were targeting “the government” and “civilians,” the document says.

After the attack, FBI agents recovered “explosive residue and bombmaking supplies” from inside a storage unit in Pennsylvania that Balat had rented just days before, the document says. The evidence included two bowls containing residue of the powerful explosive TATP.

CNN has contacted attorneys for Balat and Kayumi for comment.

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El día comenzó con la advertencia de Donald Trump de que “toda una civilización” de 90 millones de iraníes podría morir.

Todo terminó con el mundo —tras horas de tensión, pendiente con temor de cada uno de sus arrebatos— tratando de comprender su marcha atrás.

Una consecuencia extraordinaria de la guerra de 40 días es la dificultad para evaluar la credibilidad relativa de las declaraciones, no solo de los brutales gobernantes de Irán, sino también, en ocasiones, del presidente de Estados Unidos.

La niebla de la incertidumbre volvió a descender el martes, unos 80 minutos antes del plazo de Trump para destruir todos los puentes y centrales eléctricas iraníes, cuando se atribuyó una victoria en Truth Social y pospuso una nueva escalada.

“¡Un alto el fuego bilateral!”, proclamó Trump, añadiendo que, a cambio de su tregua de dos semanas en los bombardeos, Irán accedió a la “apertura completa, inmediata y segura del estrecho de Ormuz”.

Si cientos de petroleros varados logran salir pronto del Golfo Pérsico, se podría evitar un daño catastrófico a la economía mundial, un problema que ya ha contribuido a la caída de la popularidad de Trump.

Los futuros de las acciones subieron inmediatamente tras la noticia esperanzadora. “Es un honor que este problema a largo plazo esté cerca de resolverse”, escribió Trump.

Los iraníes no lo ven así. En un plan de 10 puntos descrito por el Consejo Supremo de Seguridad Nacional del país, Teherán exigió el derecho a coordinar todo el tráfico a través del estrecho para asegurar una “posición económica y geopolítica única” sobre un punto estratégico para el transporte de petróleo.

El ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de Irán, Abbas Araghchi, dejó claro que Irán no cederá en su postura ni siquiera durante el alto el fuego de dos semanas.

“Durante dos semanas, será posible el paso seguro por el estrecho de Ormuz mediante la coordinación con las Fuerzas Armadas iraníes y teniendo en cuenta las limitaciones técnicas”, escribió en X.

Mientras tanto, la agencia de noticias semioficial iraní Tasnim informó que Irán y Omán planean cobrar tasas de tránsito a los barcos que atraviesen el estrecho durante el alto el fuego.

Trump calificó de fraude el comunicado del Consejo Supremo de Seguridad Nacional y atacó a CNN por publicarlo.

Será Pakistán, que negoció un acuerdo para que Estados Unidos e Irán entablaran conversaciones a partir del viernes, quien deberá aclarar esta situación, si es que el acuerdo se mantiene vigente.

El Gobierno de Islamabad, que ha utilizado astutamente sus alianzas con Teherán y Washington, debe encontrar soluciones que ni Trump ni Irán hayan podido encontrar por sí mismos.

Incluso la posibilidad de salvar muchas vidas —las de iraníes, militares estadounidenses y civiles atrapados en el fuego cruzado en todo Medio Oriente — es una bendición. La perspectiva de que se puedan mitigar las graves consecuencias globales de la guerra también aliviará la desolación de seis semanas alarmantes.

Pero los primeros detalles de la diplomacia que se conocieron el martes dan motivos para el pesimismo.

Cualquier resultado, temporal o permanente, que otorgara a Irán el control del estrecho significaría que la consecuencia más duradera de la guerra de Trump sería una herramienta que podrí