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Everything together. i am proud that today, we stand here a little closer to bringing closure to the families and extend my deepest condolences to all of you. because of the nature of this case, and recognizing that human trafficking and corrections intelligence is so important, we realize there are many other cases that are going on, that we will help to solve going forward. i think my intelligence staff and team that here today, for their diligence and their work. while we did our part in this investigation, we continue because we have two house this individual. we have already designated or talked about certain locations where we will house him and in addition, the security measures we will implement in our facility, to make sure that this individual is brought to justice the way he should be. thank you very much and have a good day. ....
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. ....
Police s credit, give them credit, there was a convened task force, as we heard the district attorney talk about, including the fbi, including the local sheriff, including a number of other authorities, including the state of new york, to bring about this effort to get that person. and doing that and conducting any investigation, you never want to tip off the defendant because of their activities and what they can do. and so certainly you re going to be very careful as they were with regard to getting him. but again, i would just hasten to add as compelling as it appears to be that the information is we re a long way from a conviction. and i just was, again, frankly surprised at the nature of the detail that was released. i think the defense will be seizing upon this, looking for a gag order so that the defendant s rights are not p prej prejudiced. when you have a tile you need a jury empaneled to get your conviction. if there s a release of information, the defense is going to say we ....
There is more work to do in this investigation regarding the other victims. of the gilgo beach bodies that were discovered. i m going to encourage anybody that still has information, call our crimestoppers hotline. 800-220-tips. i want to recognize and think might chief detective. thank you for your great work.deputy police commissioner carter. both of you who provided update information regarding the case, and let it be known if there were any resources they needed that you brought it to my attention. since the discovery of the first victim, there has been a lot of scrutiny. and criticism. regarding how this investigation was handled. i will tell you this, the investigators were never ....
Individual, what the defendant was searching for it in a 14 month period, he had over 200 searches pertaining to the gilgo investigation. now, what was he looking at, investigative insight, he was looking, trying to figure out how is the task force using self also try and figure out what s happening. what are the developments with regard to the task force? and this, this really supported our decision to keep our investigative focus secret. because we know that this one person will be watching and we didn t want to give him an insight into what we were doing. we also didn t want him to know just how close we were getting. so, we maintain the grand jury secrecy, and maintain the integrity of our investigation. in addition to those gilgo ....