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
to enter the search as a green pick up truck. and it comes back to chevy avalanche. it s in south carolina. registered to a guy but it used to be registered right here. who was it registered to? rex heuermann. okay, who s rex? they run him. no criminal record. what does rex look like? he s 6 4 . he s 250 pounds. he wears big, round glasses. he s got a mop of hair. he s got a green truck. i m not sure when i exactly said that s our guy, but when we were able to track back that green avalanche is when i was like, okay, we re getting close. the car. the car, exactly. investigators kept digging. and they discovered that just like costello, cell phone records from victims melissa and megan were contacted by burner
so there was one hair that was found on lauren. her legs were bound by a belt. there was a hair that was adhered to the belt. megan waterman, there were three hairs found on her. amber costello, there was a hair recovered from the burlap. ten years ago, the police actually used the nuclear dna analysis. they attempted to do it but it failed because they couldn t get enough information. would you say the new dna testing was a break in the case? clearly, the new testing was the biggest break in our case. we would not have been able to do this in 2010 because this technology wasn t available. while the 2022 task force investigation that ultimately led to rex heuermann s arrest was undeny bly exhausted. this was unprecedented. 16 years of evidence, cell
2011. megan was a kind, friendly, loving person. whoever met megan they would definitely fall in love with her. she just had that kind of heart. she was a victim, truly, of her lifestyle. nobody wants to do what they re doing in that role, but that s where she found herself, unfortunately. she made a mistake. she didn t deserve this. nobody deserves this. megan s aunt told cbs s 48 hours that megan s boyfriend coerced here into prostitution. why did she stay with him? fear. she was afraid he would hurt her family, he would hurt lilliana. megan s daughter was interviewed by 48 hours ten years after her mother was killed. i would do anything to bring her back, but i can t, and it just frustrates me so bad.
personal effect. a term they use in the serial killer genre is trophies from his killing. long island has a serial killer. a little more than a month later, the public would learn the identities of the victims. the victims are lori barnes of norwich, connecticut. amber lynn costello of north avalon, new york. megan waterman of scoarborough, maine. and melissa bartellimi of the bronx. we were watching the news and saw there were four bodies found in long island. they actually showed the skeleton. and we just started bawling. we knew it was her. just the size of the remains. melissa was petite and in her