bodies were found along a quarter-mile stretch of go-go beach on the south shore of long island, new york. all four victims were young women in their 20s who advertised a work on craig list. their bodies were found within a quarter-mile stretch of beach, all bound at the feet or ankles and covered with burlap to hide them. it was a shocking discovery, and it was just the beginning. for the next year, seven more set of human remains were found in the area, mostly women. was this the work of a serial killer? that is the question investigators have been asking for more than a decade, with no answers until 2022, when a recent dna technology gave police a new lead. they now have a suspect, someone they say who is living a double life as a husband and father. police fear he was targeting even more victims. over the next hour, cnn will piece together exactly how police were able to identify the suspect and how the possible killer was able to get away with it for so long.
craigslist. their bodies were found within a quarter-mile stretch of beach. they were all bound at the feet or ankles and covered with burlap to hide them. it was a shocking discovery, and it was just the beginning. over the next year seven more sets of human remains were found in the area, most of them women. so was this the work of a serial killer? that s the question investigators have been asking for more than a decade with no answers until 2022, when recent dna technology gave police a new lead. they now have a suspect, someone they say was living a double life as a husband and a father. police feared he was targeting even more victims. over the next hour cnn s brin begingrass will piece together exactly how police begin to i.d. the suspect and how the possible killer was able to get away with it for so long. state police.
quarter-mile stretch of beach. they were all bound at the feet or ankles and covered with burlap to hide them. it was a shocking discovery, and it was just the beginning. over the next year seven more sets of human remains were found in the area, most of them women. so was this the work of a serial killer? that s the question investigators have been asking for more than a decade with no answers until 2022, when recent dna technology gave police a new lead. they now have a suspect, someone they say was living a double life as a husband and a father. police feared he was targeting even more victims. over the next hour cnn s brin begingrass will piece together exactly how police begin to i.d. the suspect and how the possible killer was able to get away with it for so long. state police. there s somebody after me.
style pistol. it had an extended clip. it would be illegal in california. police confirming that is in fact a mac 10. known to be a very destructive weapon. illegal in the state of california. that is part of the investigation. separately our unit has confirmed a few things. evidence suggests this is a personal motive, not hate crime or terrorism. you might imagine that. with the shooter being 72 years old and known to the community, we know that at this point but they haven t gotten to the bottom of why. that is the question investigators will focus on until this wraps up. steve patterson, thank you. let s ring in the mayor of monterey park, henry low. thank you for being here. i want to start by asking, how is the community doing and have you talked to any of the family? thank you for having us on
determine who is or was the killer. and so what they are now doing is through forensics, they are going back, looking at the tests of the forensics, they know this one at one time a party house, so they are now trying to do a process of elimination to try to find the killer. they are trying to also talk to anybody who knew any of these four students to find out if there were any beefs that anybody would have had against any one of these four students that would have led to this kind of a murder. jacqui: we learned from one of the victim s fathers, not from the police, that his daughter died in the same bed as her best friend. so, one question investigators have now is how was a killer able to overtake two victims at the same time. what are your thoughts on that? well, one of the things is, it could have been, what was