were found, the police announced they were going to keep looking for shannon gilbert. and in the months after those women were discovered, they did find more human remains. in the last hours, another body believed to be that of a fifth woman turns up on that same stretch. and then they found more. eight bodies discovered on gilgo beach on long island. three were found just yesterday. then they found more and more. in all, something like 11 people that were found who may or may not be connected to one another. may or may not be connected to those first four women. all of them in the area around gilgo beach and none of them shannon gilbert. and as the bodies piled up, so did the concerns. can you talk about gilgo beach, the tension that i imagine that was arising after these
suspect? so what they need from rex heuermann is dna. a surveillance team is sent to midtown manhattan. the area where he works. and they re basically watching the building. he comes out and he goes to a pizza place. and they see him go through three slices of pizza and he takes the box and shoves it into a green trash can. so that was a treasure-trove of dna in there with that pizza box. so from a chain of custody s standpoint, they ve seen him eating, carrying it, discard it and they pull that box out. able to test it with his dna to match the dna at the crime scenes? one hair matched the dna profile of that of the defendant, rex heuermann. just one month after these lab results, police had enough evidence to make the arrest. local tv cameras captured him in custody. rex, did you do it?
discoveries? when you start to have several murder victims and those bodies have been there for quite some time, brought tremendous, tremendous fear within that community. which was usually a tranquil place. these are communities of individuals that love to be around the beach. they like to enjoy the better part of life with peace and quiet. and if you think along that long strip of highway along gilgo beach, it s a peaceful drive, a peaceful walk. and it s something else, too. an ideal spot for the end of a violent spree. it s a near perfect bural ground. not far off the road. you re in a wooded area. a few feet more, you re in marshes with water. tall grass. when you get to the road, you can look miles in one direction or the other and see anything coming in terms of a car or a
island, new york. it s a great neighborhood. good schools. nice area. houses are mostly well kept. among the properties in the shoreline village, heuermann s home stands out. anybody who drives by always is looking. it s kind of an eyesore. it s on my block. halloween came. i just said don t trick or treat there. the house just doesn t look right. but you never thought there was actually anything happening. a source involved in the investigation believes heuermann may have lured the victims to his home, killed them there, then dumped the bodies. every time a murder was committed, his wife was out of the state. heuermann s wife was in maryland when megan waterman went missing according to authorities. new jersey when amber lynn costello vanished, and iceland
phones in the hours before they disappeared but it was the locations where those burner phones pinged that was most interesting. what they were able to do is narrow down the area where the phones were pinging to an area in midtown manhattan around fifth avenue and 35th street there abouts and another area in massapequa park on long island. both are locations key to rex heuermann. his office in midtown manhattan and home in massapequa park, just across from where the bodies of the four were discovered. i think the breakthrough with the task force was the use of the cell phone records. nathan is a professor at john jay college of criminal justice in new york city. that allowed them to identify the location in manhattan and long island and they were able to connect it to his cell phone pings as well. so he was using a burner phone but in his pocket was his