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walks among us. >> charged with the murders of three women and a suspect in the fourth. police say he was leading a double life, hiding in plain sight. >> i'm an architectural consultant, born and raised on long island. >> the families seeking justice. >> it's not the end. it's just really the beginning now. >> how pizza crust and burner plus new details in the shocking arrest of a long island father. >> greg sherman is a demon that walks among us charged with the murders of three women and the suspect in a fourth. >> police say he was leading a double life, hiding in plain sight from an architectural consultant born and raised on long island. the families seeking justice. it's not the end. >> it's just rea lines down hollywood. >> new type of business. >> juju: demanding higher wages, improved health care and for regulations for artificial intelligence. >> these networks are essentially trying to use our likeness at their own disposal. >> juju: the financial and human toll could be catastrophic, and why networks are queuing up the

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to worse, shutting down hollywood. we're in an old contract for a new type of business demanding higher wages, improved health care and regulation for artificial intelligence. >> these networks are essentially trying to use our likeness as at their own disposal. >> the financial and human toll could be catastrophic and why networks are queuing up the we begin with a astonishing new details in the arrest of a suspected serial of two, accuse killing at least three young women. his lawyer says he's not guilty.

it's an investigation over ten years in the making. tonight, relief, but also questions. could he be linked to more victims? here is abc's senior investigative reporter aaron katersky. >> reporter: for 13 years, this community lived in fear. four bodies and counting. >> police are worried they have a serial killer on the loose. >> reporter: after four bodies wrapped in burlap were dumped in a marshy area along this long island beach in 2010, the bodies all found within a quarter mile of each other. >> everyone is going to have to go. >> reporter: but the case went cold, and the so-called gilgo beach serial killer remain odd tonight loose. >> for the next 13 years, their cases went unsolved. until today. >> rex, did you do it? >> reporter: but last week, that changed. police arresting a suburban dad, an architect, charging him with murdering women authorities say he secretly solicited for sex. prosecutors say 59-year-old rex

heuermann, a new york city architect and father of two killed three women, melissa barthelemy, megan waterman, and amber costello, and he is now the prime suspect in the death of a fourth, maureen brainerd-barnes. the women in their 20s, petite, sex workers. >> she didn't deserve this, just like nobody else's mother or sister or daughter deserves this. she really was a fabulous person. just lost in life. >> reporter: heuermann was taken into custody at 8:30 p.m. thursday outside his fifth avenue architecture firm in manhattan. detectives spent the weekend pulling evidence from his home, including trash bags and a filing cabinet. prosecutors say heuermann had 92 gun permits and more than 200 guns. some of the weapons seen in this dailymail.com photo. how concerning is that, that he had that kind of an arsenal. >> well, i think it was concerning and concerning enough where we didn't want to have the arrest at the house. we wanted to take him into

custody somewhere outside of the house because of access to those weapons. >> reporter: prosecutors also say heuermann was living a double life. the public saw a father and architect who commuted into new york city. >> serial offenders, they're able to lure, kidnap, torture, kill, dismember a victim, turn around an hour later, be at home, make breakfast for their kids, make breakfast for their wife. >> i'm an architectural consultant. i'm a troubleshooter, born and raised on long island. >> reporter: heuermann appearing in this youtube video a year ago, around time investigators formed a new task force and began to suspect he could be a killer, saying they zeroed in on him using dna technology, his car, and cell phone data. prosecutors said the killer contacted his victims using burner phones and later took the victims' cell phones. those cell phone records narrowed the area where the suspect could be, tracking them

to locations near his office in midtown manhattan and heuermann's home in massapequa park. detectives then looked the see who in that area owned a distinctive vehicle allegedly tied to one of the murders, a chevrolet avalanche, reducing the pool of possible suspects from thousands to dozens. this trash can outside the office is where police say they then found pizza crust they used to take a dna sample, matching it to dna from a hair found on one of the victims. >> by the time the fbi and the suffolk county police were attempting to get dna, they were on to their guy. but they needed his dna. so that's why they formed a surveillance team and basically followed him until he ultimately ate something and then threw it into a public trash can, and they grabbed it at that point. >> reporter: prosecutors say eyewitnesses gave them a description of heuermann. he is a big guy. >> he was described as 6'4" or

6'6", 250, 250 plus pounds, and not like a muscle-bound person, but a very large human being. and that's who he is. >> reporter: you used the word ohger in court. >> well, that was one of the witnesses utilized that term, ogre, meaning a very thick, thick-framed individual. >> reporter: court documents reveal he allegedly used fake names to sign up for multiple emails which he used to search for sex worker, child and torture pornography, and he even had a tinder profile looking for dates or hookups. heuermann also allegedly searched why hasn't the long island serial killer been caught? and long island serial killer update. in an update, heuermann's defense attorney said rex heuermann is a loving husband and dedicated father. he has entered a not guilty plea and has insisted he did not commit these crimes. nothing would suggest he is involved in these incidents. >> once we establish him as a

suspect at march 14th of 2022, the case started to really good fast, and then it kept on getting faster and faster and faster, culminating in the end of the grand jury and the takedown. >> reporter: in the town of massapequa park, where heuermann lives, neighbors were uncomfortable around his home. >> we saw this guy just standing there chopping wood, looking very strange. and we made a joke. we were like this guy is definitely a serial killer, you know, because he looks like a serial killer. >> reporter: james pagano went to school with heuermann. >> well, he had a nickname. everybody probably gets a nickname in high school. but his was herman munster, because he was so big. >> reporter: dominique vidal said she was recently in a networking group with heuermann when the topic of podcasts and true crime came up. >> he asked me if i knew about the gilgo beach murders. >> reporter: she says he left

her a voice mail in february. >> hey, this is rex. >> reporter: sharing it with our station wabc. >> i have a question for you and also wanted to touch base. hope you're doing good. hope to talk to you soon. >> reporter: the gilgo beach murders became a source of morbid fascination. >> we don't have law enforcement agencies working together. >> there is nobody trying to connect the dots. >> it's human nature to want to know what is going on and to delve into the darkest parts of humanities. >> reporter: the director of "the killing season," an documentary on the serial killer. >> there is always the idea he was a commuter. the first victim, maureen brainard-barnes disappeared from penn station. a lot of the cell phone pings came from massapequa. another victim was last seen going to massapequa. so we knew that massapequa was an important point. we also knew that penn station was an important point. and if you know long island, from long island, you know it's a commuter. >> reporter: a total of ten bodies were found at gilgo

beach, some of them remain unidentified. megan waterman was one of the victims who was identified, and the arrest was bittersweet for her family. her sister told our portland, maine affiliate wmtw. >> i put the faces to the death. so i don't necessarily like having that closure. but it is such a relief that we do know who it was and that it will come to an end eventually. >> reporter: the investigation is really just beginning. police now have entered heuermann's dna into a statewide database as they check to see if he is a link to any other unsolved murders. heuermann is being held without bail, and we have learned he is on suicide watch. but for the loved ones of the victims, there is also compassion for the young women caught up in the sex industry. >> thank god that the narrative has changed. nothing was going to change for these women in the industry if the narrative hadn't changed. they are a victim. nobody wants to be doing what she was doing.

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the picket lines together, shutting down hollywood. here's abc's matt gutman on strike. from new york to l.a. >> some of hollywood's biggest stars trading in props for picket signs. we are here supporting the union. why are people out here? >> we're out here because amptp has made it very hard to come to a deal that makes sense. >> stars like jason sudeikis and susan sarandon joining the protests. matt damon speaking out from the red carpet. >> we had to protect the people who are kind of on the margins. we got to figure out something that that that it is fair. >> the strike impacting everyone from background actors to a-listers, the actors say they want higher wages, residual pay, better access to health care and artificial intelligence regulation. when you've experienced being knocked off of health insurance for one year, i was $50 short.

>> we're working class. you know, not everybody can do this full time and make a living, you know, so for them to pinch pennies, for them to not want to share the wealth is really problematic. >> after failing to reach an agreement with major studios, the union is standing firm. >> people just feel like the man is on their neck. and this is the way to breathe again. >> the industry now facing a crisis as 160,000 actors join, the 10,000 members of the writers guild striking since may 2nd on the picket lines over the weekend, the cast of oppenheimer walking out of their own premier and sag president fran drescher speaking out and fired up for the cause. >> at some point you have to say, no, we're not going to take this anymore. the entire business model has been changed by streaming digital. i i is a moment of history that is a

moment of truth. >> sag-aftra hollywood's largest union has been in contract talks since june 7th with the alliance of motion picture and television producers. the bargaining rep for studios and streamers like netflix, sony pictures, warner brothers and the walt disney company, the parent company of abc news. they were unable to reach an agreement by the deadline and their contract expired. the industry has already been reeling for months from the domino effect of the writers strike. thank you for being here. >> it is a big night for us. >> late night television airing reruns and productions suspended for hit shows like netflix's stranger things, fx's american horror story and abc's abbott elementary. and the impact is bringing most of hollywood to a standstill. >> we're not going to have full tv writers. rooms have been shut down since may. so your favorite shows are not coming back. >> one of the biggest issues plaguing many actors right now is what they see as unfair residual payments. >> so residuals, the way they

work, you know, you get paid for the day that you give your services to the show or film, but they get paid every time that show airs in syndication or anywhere in the world, in the world of streaming shows, don't go to reruns. >> content perpetually lives on the platforms and can be viewed at any time that accessibility has drastically affected payments. performers receiving what they say are paltry amounts. >> there are no excuses right now. you're being greedy and inhumane. >> actor kendrick sampson of hbo's insecure was on the picket lines last week. you are a successful actor. >> i'm a successful. >> and tell me the residual checks that you got. five of them. was it last week? >> oh, by 56, i got a i got an envelope of 56 checks and out of 50 of them, i would even say i would even venture to say ten of them didn't equal a dollar. >> what's going on? >> kimiko glenn was a cast

member on one of the shows that put netflix on the map. orange is the new black. is this some kind of game? >> i, i don't get it. >> recently, a tiktok of hers resurfaced where she shows off her paltry residual checks from her recurring role. >> oh, my god. i'm about to be so rich. >> what the sad reality is that for the past ten years, my residual checks have looked like this. >> she concedes that the explosion of streaming brought new opportunities, just ones that don't pay a livable wage. >> at this point, you have to get like a side hustle. you have to sort of have several different income streams in order to make this life work. and it didn't used to be that way last week, the walt disney company ceo, bob iger, shared his view on the strike with cnbc . >> it is very disturbing to me. you know, we've talked about disruptive forces on this business and all the challenges that we're facing and the

recovery from covid, which is ongoing. it's not completely back. this is the worst time in the world. to add to that disruption. i understand any any labor organizations desire to work on the behalf on behalf of its members, to get the most compensation to be compensated fairly based on the value that they deliver. there's a level of expectation that they have that is just not realistic. what's your biggest concern right now? >> i hope that the opposition will come back to the table to talk to us and i hope that they realize that. too little, too late. >> another central issue in negotiations is the rise of artificial intelligence in productions. >> one of my friends was promised four months of work and that's huge. but day one, they scanned him and he never heard from production, never heard from casting or that project ever again. >> for vincent amaya and elizabeth michalek career

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