the home of the suspect who has now been arrested and is in custody. hello, welcome everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. rich, hello to you. rich: rich edson in washington for john roberts. this is america reports. major break as the suspect is set to make his first court appearance in less than an hour now. identified as rex heuermann, 59-year-old architect at a new york city firm. sandra: the news brings a sense of relief to residents of gilgo beach nearly 13 years after the body of a 24-year-old woman was discovered there. remains of nine more people have been found in the years since then. mary ellen o toole is a former fbi profiler will join us with details what we know. but begin with lauren green. good afternoon, sandra. the most intense investigation for a supposed serial killer on new york s long island for more than a decade. police joined by the fbi have been searching for a suspect in the gilgo beach murders. last night, they made an arrest. the suspect
one of the victims melissa barthelmy is from lockport in buffalo, and i investigated another case a young lady who died, amanda, in 2009, she was naked, she was a sex worker, heroin addict, and she was naked, frozen, and left upside down inside a garbage can with the top on her and the police concluded it was an accidental death. and miss barthelmy was a co-worker of her before she worked on long island. we managed to find some rings in buffalo that connect with california where melissa went, amanda went, and shannon gilbert went at the same time to california, where there were
is involved that we know of. there are other bodies that we think are related that were found, male bodies that were slaughtered and dismembered and some of them right around the same time. it s not necessarily true at all that the killer is just after females. and that the killer is after only sex workers. but the killer or killers are after more than that and there s more than those people who are dead and have not yet been brought have not had justice brought to them. so we think there needs to be far more investigation and maybe the dam will have broken with this fellow. we don t know what this involvement is. is there a ring? we have plenty of evidence i ve garnered over the course of many years there are rings of these people, more than one ring, and that the rings can stretch all the way to buffalo, new york, and all the way to california. quick insight for you, in buffalo, new york, we know that