Welcome to the whole story. In d december of 2010, four bods were found along a Quarter Mile Stretch of gilgo beach on the south shore of long island, new york. All four victims were young women in their 20s who advertised sex work on craigslist. They were all bound at the feet or ankles. 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 kra. M most of them women. So was this the work of a Serial Killer . Thats the Question Investigators have been asking until they got a new lead. They now have a suspect, someone who say was living a double life as a husband and father. Over the next hour, well piece together how exactly police were able to identify the suspect and how the killer was able to get away with it for so long. State police. Theres somebody after me. Whats your name . Shannon gilbert. Where are you . Im on long island. And whats wrong . These people are me. May 1st of 2010. She showed up at my doo
heuermann s home, office, and storage units were scoured for evidence. office furniture, a playboy magazine, an arsonal according to authorities was found in the basement of that home. he s got 92 guns registered to him at home. they find out that it s not 92 guns. it s somewhere between two and 300 guns. pistols, revolvers, semiautomatics. what sort of items are you looking for? jewelry. anything that can be attached to the women. serial sexual killers will very likely take what we call a so souvenir from a victim. fbi profiler mary ellen o toole has investigated serial murder cases for nearly three decades. that could be a lock of hair, a body part. it s important to them because it enables them to relive and
dennis, he came up with his own moniker. btk for bind, torture, kill, hoping it would make him more news worthy. he asked me do i know about the gilgo beach murders. dominique met heuermann through a networking group for business owners. he tells me yeah, that s a serial killer that was never caught in my hometown. my neighborhood where i live. and tells me, like the guy killed ten people and might i just could not stop running that conversation over and over in my head. i m really disturbed. in february, heuermann left her this voice mail. actually heard you are no longer part of the group. i still wanted to talk to you. had a question for you. also wanted to touch base. hope you re doing good. hope to talk to you soon.
now an accused serial killer police are struggling to understand him. what was his personal life like? we re still learning more and more about who he is. no one that he worked with or that hired him or his firm ever brought anything to our attention. this isn t a guy who you have people going to his house often for calls for service. even surveilling him. he seemed normal. it was like every day life. never did anything. was just a normal, peaceful, law-abiding citizen. what surprised you the most about heuermann? i was surprised that he had a family. i was surprised that he had such a high profile job. i really expected somebody who kept to himself. who wasn t hiding in plain sight. for decades, heuermann, his wife, and two children lived here. in massapequa park on long
regular cell phone, which was also making pings so they were able to connect those two. so even the use of a burner found did not conceal his identity like he hoped it would. further investigating confirmed that over the years, heuermann frequently used burner phones to contact sex workers and as recently as may 2023, v investigators spotted him purchasing additional minutes linked to a burner cell phone. he is growing into the suspect because you now have a car. you have a face. you have a geographic connection but that is circumstantial. they need that thin hair of evidence that is going to go from circumstantial to certainty and the thin hair of evidence turns out to be a thin hair. two of those hairs apparently according to the document that we ve read can be connected to his wife and one stlraight to him. now we re in a different place. today is the day.