Rex Heuermann, the convicted Gilgo Beach serial killer, has spent three years in solitary confinement at a New York jail, where he has engaged in limited correspondence and maintained a reading habit focused on crime fiction, according to Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon. He briefly exchanged letters with Keith Hunter Jesperson, a convicted murderer serving life in prison, but did not respond to further attempts at contact. Heuermann has declined all other communications, including media interviews. Toulon expressed concern about Heuermann’s choice of reading material, which includes novels centered on murder and serial crime. The case involves the deaths of at least eight women, most of whom were sex workers. Victim advocacy representatives have condemned the crimes and called for greater awareness of violence against women.

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