didn t make sense to me. glamorous, good-looking, golden. the dashing hollywood movie executive. he was more like a movie star in real life. just so charismatic. perfect southern california family. he completely dropped off the face of the earth. a baffling disappearance, where was he? not just a missing person. he has three sons, he has a wife. i was very afraid that something terrible was wrong. and i got scared. the clues, a missing mercedes. a handprint in blood. and a musical chairs of secret affairs. we have multiple of affairs. yes, those were more women, more lovers involved in this whole thing. was this beauty hiding something deadly? i wanted to get away, i was scared. how would this hollywood story and? i was in fear for my family. i don t want to lose my dad. like who are these people? hello and welcome to dateline. gavin smith was a larger than life kind of guy who lived life to the fullest. he was not the type to slip quietly
Listen. She told police tim wanted to kill fred and marry her, but she never thought hed go through with it and was shocked when he did. Tell me, what did prosecutors say the Phone Evidence created a remarkably clear picture of what happened and proved sherry was in on the Murder Plot from the start. At 9 43, tim called sherry from the mailboxes. This was him calling sherry, saying, hey, im in position. Im ready to go. Send him down here as soon as you can. Narrator at 10 35, sherry called tim, saying the plan had been delayed. At 11 05, she called tim again. Hawes this is sherry telling timmy, get ready. I have sent fred to the mailbox
confident that we re going to be able to eventually charge that fourth murder. what are the strongest pieces of evidence that you have right now that point to heuermann being the prep pray or the of these crimes. we have a description of the last individual who saw the final victim, amber costello alive, that matches of this defendant who has a rather unique physical appearance. we have phone evidence and we also have that dna evidence, the defendant s dna was recovered off of one of the bodies whereas his wife s dna was recovered off of two bodies. i want to show folks at home, this is a picture of a belt that was found at the scene here in january of 2020, police released these images, one of the gilgo
beach? is it 10 or 11? in gilgo beach it s 10 or 11, depending upon it is actually 11. those bodies are nine women, a man, and a young child. bill: last question from me. his google searches showed you a lot. you explained this friday afternoon at the press conference. can you elaborate more on what you believe he was looking for as it related to these women? sure. so we have maintained our secrecy because we were afraid that this one person, this killer, would be trying to monitor our investigation through the internet. once we got his google searches we saw it was the case. he was asking questions such as what is the phone evidence in the gill go case? how come they can t trace the phones in the gilgo beach case? he is asking questions regarding
costello. that profile matched his wife. bill: you have phone evidence, correct? how could you have cell phone or telephone evidence that goes back 13 years? this is a new style of law enforcement that has been used in courts and we ve seen it in high-profile cases in the last year. how do you get that from 2010? so back in 2012, when a lot of this material was still available, there was an f.b.i. phone expert who went into and drove through the massapequa park area and established a map of the phone cell phone coverage in that area, and he indicated that he showed a small area in this massapequa park neighborhood which indicated that not only was the killer using a phone in that area but one of the victims had used her phone in the area as well. similarly, they went to mid town manhattan and they mapped out