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? that s 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, we ll 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. there s somebody after me. what s your name? shannon gilbert. where are you? i m on long island. and what s wrong? these people are me. may 1st
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. state pol
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. what s your name? shannan gilbert. where are you? i m in long island. and what s wrong? these people are trying to kill me. may 1st of 2010. she sho
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. there s somebody after me. what s your name? shannan gilbert. where are you? i m in long island. and what s wrong? these people are tr
first and second degree murder. investigators are hard at work. this case left authorities frustrated and families would over the years. even as recently as two weeks ago, this man was still allegedly in the community. more on that in a few minutes a lot of digging to be done into the father of two. suffolk county undersheriff kevin catalina joins me now. kevin, thank you for joining the program. you guys have been on this for a while and i guess the big question is, why did it take so long? i think there s a few reasons but what i would like to do is first, condolences to the families and the reason it took so long, it s hard to say but i will say the current administration in the district attorney s office and sheriff s office and police department and state police, fbi put all of their resources into this and did a phenomenal job putting it together. fantastic teamwork, a task force mr. harrison kind of announced a while back. i got together with esther attorney tierney