president of the screen actors guild, fran drescher, will join us in moments. welcome to the lead, i am jake tapper. we re going to start with our law and justice lead and the hunt for a serial killer. any moment, state and federal investigators in long island, new york, will update the public on the first arrest in their dede-long investigation into the gilgo beach murders. this is a case tied to at least ten sets of human remains discovered since 2010 along the shore in suburban long island. earlier this afternoon, a married father of two and a new york city architect named rex huerman was arraigned and pleaded not guilty. he s connected to the serial murders of three women and is the prime suspect in a fourth. those three women were part of a group known to law enforcement as the gilgo four. their bodies were found near each other, wrapped in burlap, discovered within 2010.
there is more work to do in this investigation regarding the other victims. of the gilgo beach bodies that were discovered. i m going to encourage anybody that still has information, call our crimestoppers hotline. 800-220-tips. i want to recognize and think might chief detective. thank you for your great work.deputy police commissioner carter. both of you who provided update information regarding the case, and let it be known if there were any resources they needed that you brought it to my attention. since the discovery of the first victim, there has been a lot of scrutiny. and criticism. regarding how this investigation was handled. i will tell you this, the investigators were never
never say never. we will continue to look at again, now this is a watershed event in this case. and so, we have now, we are going out and we are executing more search warrants. we ll get more information, more data and together, we will look at that and see where it leads. can you share with other victims families are feeling today? i m sorry? did you speak to the other victims families and it did they tell you how they are feeling today? this investigation had to do with these four victims, so we been in touch with the four victims to the grand jury process. with regard to victims in general and other victims, you know a lot of people in the vicinity of that area, we speak to our victims all the time. but those are conversations that we keep between ourselves. one victim that is not been linked to the charges to the suspect at this
wife and kids were out of town when these murders were actually done. so just so much detail. and i expect we ll hear more from the district attorney about how they can connect huberman to these three cases, the prime suspect in the fourth. but it will be interesting to see if he does talk about the other murders that have haunted this area of long island. is he or is he a prime suspect in those cases, as well? the science of forensics is so much more advanced than it was a few decades ago. fascinating. miguel, what more did you find out about the suspect today in massapequa? reporter: well, look, this is a case that has both traumatized this area just east of new york city on long island and captivated it, as well. in all, there were 11 bodies found in this area of gilgo beach. and four of them now, the investigators say they believe they have the person who did it. it i want to show what s happening at the house because it s very much an active investigation here. there are vehic
going to work with my task force, we were going to form a task force, we were going to, with with the suffolk county police department, we were going to work with the suffolk county sheriff s office, we were going to, with with the new york state police, we re going to work with our fbi, and we were going to form this task force and work together, and we were going to use the grand jury, the power of the grand jury to reach a determination in this case. so the grand jury has two things it has power, it has reach, we can obtain documents. you could interview witnesses. the other thing that the grand jury has, grand jury has secrecy. no one knows what you do when you operate a grand jury proceeding. and we knew that when we were investigating this case and when it dealt with the media or whatever it was we were doing, we were playing before a party of one. we knew the person responsible