India, June 17 -- Rex Heuermann, the Long Island serial killer, was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison without parole, two months after pleading guilty to murdering seven women and admitting to killing an eighth, over a 17-year period.

The sentencing marks the end of a decades-old cold case that took investigators more than a decade to solve

State Supreme Court Justice Timothy P Mazzei handed down the sentence under the terms of the plea deal Heuermann had agreed to in April.

The judge delivered sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole for three counts of first-degree murder and 25 years to life for each of the four other counts of second-degree murder, with all sentences set to run consecutively, exactly as ...