Rex Heuermann appears in court for a hearing in Suffolk County Court on April 3 in Riverhead, New York. He has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of seven women between 1993 and 2011. James Carbone/Pool/Getty Images/File New York AP —

The man accused in Long Island’s infamous Gilgo Beach serial killings has lost his bid to separate the sprawling case involving seven victims into multiple trials.

Judge Timothy Mazzei ruled Tuesday that the trial against Rex Heuermann, a Manhattan architect who lived on Long Island, would move forward as a single trial. In his six-page ruling, he sided with prosecutors who argued that the killings were committed in a similar matter and that evidence in the cases overlaps.

“We wanted one and that’s what we got,” Suffolk County

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