Bodies were found along a quartermile stretch of gogo 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 quartermile 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. State police . There is
have anyone to compare them to. reporter: enter suffolk county police detectives working undercover to surveil huberman. so they began collecting evidence from his home. the surveillance team picked up 11 bottles and brought them to the lab. they swabbed the bottles, collected dna. but it did not belong to the alleged perpetrator, it belongs to his wife. she was not even in the state when any of these murders occurred. so it becomes a case of hair analysis. it is not unusual that huberman transfer hair from his wife to his victims. hair is ubiquitous, people use about 125 scalp hairs per day just from living. that hair tends to stick to clothing. you can have hair from someone you have been in contact with for days later. in this case, they found three female hairs on two of the bodies, and they found a male hair on one of the victims. reporter: the key question,
care of it. reporter: huberman s home, office, and storage units were scoured for evidence. office furniture, a playboy magazine, an arsenal, according to authorities, of guns was found in the basement of that home. he has got 92 guns registered to him at home. they find out it is not 92 guns, it is somewhere between two and 300 guns, these are pistols, revolvers, semiautomatics. reporter: what sort of items are you looking for? jewelry, anything that can be attached to the women. these serial sexual killers will very likely take what we call a souvenir from a victim. reporter: fbi profiler maryellen o toole has investigated serial murder cases for nearly three decades. that souvenir could be a lock of hair, could be a body part. it is important to them because it enables them to relive and
re-fantasize about what they did. joel rifkin, another long island serial killer, kept souvenirs of his victim s jewelry, clothing, he kept them in his bedroom. reporter: response to find more evidence and possibly more victims has expanded across the country. he did travel, he did have a residence somewhere else. do you believe there are more victims out there? i believe someone is organized, this determined, that person does not quit. reporter: authorities are now actively investing in huberman s connection to nevada, south carolina, and new jersey. huberman and his wife owned condos in las vegas. can you give any insight into the investigation in nevada? i know we are working with local officials there, trying to track on anything they may have. reporter: tax records show huberman also owns four large plots of land in northern south carolina. what did you find itself
also making things. they were able to connect those two, so even the use of a burner phone did not conceal his identity as well as he hoped it would. reporter: further investigating confirmed that over the years, huberman frequently used burner phones to contact workers, and as recently as may 2023, investigators spotted him purchasing additional minutes linked to a burner cell phone. he is growing into the suspect, because we now have a car, we had a face, we have the geographic connection. but that is all circumstantial. they need that thin hair of evidence that will go from circumstantial to certainty. and the thin hair of evidence turns out to be a literal hair. two of his hairs, apparently, according to the document that we have read, can be connected to his wife, and one can be connected straight to him. now, we are in a different place. today is a good day. what did it feel like to