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. they were all in their 20s and offered sex services on craigslist. as details emerge showing hum
the killer. stuff that police could not have done 10, 20, 30 years ago. what stood out to you the most from this press conference? reporter: yeah, i think they were so descriptive for two reasons. one, i think because they wanted to tell the public this is every step we took to make this case come to where it is today. and this, again, has haunted police, it s haunted that community. they wanted answers as to who may have committed these murders. you heard mitochondrial dna. i had an up-close look being solved by the nypd where mitochondrial dna was used. if you heard the district attorney there, he said that they got his name, rex huerman, six weeks into forming the task force. once you have a name the case works backwards. that s what he is describing for everyone. they got this name, rex huerman. from there, they could go back to the evidence that they collected there at the scenes
harrison. we ve been listening to an update out of long island, new york, suffolk county district attorney tyranny talking to us, giving us new details about a suspected serial killer named rex huerman, a new york city architect. he pleaded not guilty today after being charged in connection with the deaths of three of the four women that had been known as the gilgo beach four found dead on the beach in long island. huerman is the prime suspect in the disappearance and death of a fourth member of the group. obviously a lot, a lot of work by investigators and lots of forensic details that we got and heard about ways that they figured out who in their view is
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.
alongside that beach where the dna, you know, had been weathered from storms. it wasn t that great. they couldn t put a name at that point. and they can figure out, oh, hey, there s a hair in one of in this evidence, that hair belongs to rex huerman s wife, according to him. so they basically work it as a puzzle backwards once they have that name. and then as i said, they were able to then go to the grand jury and start getting those search warrants, those subpoenas, and go forward with the investigation from that point forward which is basically, again, the cell phones, the burner phones, the searches that he was doing, of family members of the victims, the victims names and all of the details that are so incredible to this investigation. and again, you just heard him say there this was something that was continuing. they believe that he was still contacting sex workers and had to cut the investigation short because they were worried about the safety of others. i think that is why