that individual was rex heuermann, the defendant. right array their criminal as he is 64 inches, a large person, not necessarily muscular, but a very physically large person. he has glasses, he has, he has dark hair. and also, of particular note, he owned at the time, the first generation chevrolet avalanche. there was more. he lived at 105 first avenue, which was located within that box area that the fbi first discovered in 2012. but there was more. also, he worked at the time, an architect -- he on his architectural firm, at an address 19 w. 36 street, midtown manhattan. there was also the area of interest, that was identified by the fbi in 2012. again, it was march 14 2022. and from that point on, our partners and my office, we use the grand jury to continue to investigate, and executed over 300 subpoenas, search warrants pertaining to this individual, to find out more information. one of the things that we did, we followed him because we wanted to get a sample of his dna. which we were able to do. we also got dna samples from his

rex heuermann. okay. who's rex? they run him. no criminal record. well, what does rex look like?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 i will say this. 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. >> reporter: investigators kept digging. and they discovered that just like costello cell phone records from victims melissa barthelemy and megan waterman were contacted by burner phones in the hours before they disappeared. but it was the locations where those burner phones pinged that was most interesting. >> what they were able to do is narrow down the area where the phones were pinging to an area in midtown manhattan around 5th avenue and 35th street, thereabouts, and another area in massapequa, massapequa park on long island. >> reporter: both are locations key to rex heuermann. his office in midtown manhattan and his home in massapequa park. just across the bay from the ocean parkway where the bo

heuermann pleaded not guilty to the charges. >> rex heuermann is our guy.oing to see if we can attach him to anything else, any other murders murders throughout the country. >> i haven't heard anything about an eyewitness, about a confession -- >> did he have what investigators might call trophies, things that came from the victims? >> we're going to find out once we evaluate this mountain of evidence that we're getting. >> reporter: multiple searches under way at heuermann's home in the small town of massapequa park and the fifth avenue a architecture firm where he worked. among the items, more than 200 guns. it's why they opted to arrest him outside his office last week. >> we wanted to take him into custody somewhere outside of the house because of access to those weapons. >> did he make any initial statements? >> i can't talk about the statements. suffice to say he was surprise the. >> reporter: authorities investigating whether more evidence could tie him to crime scenes across the country. >> we're looking from beginning with molecular evidence such a

police say the suspect, rex heuermann, has been under surveillance for months, and it was revealed iny used one of the victim's cell phones to make taunting calls to her family after the murder. >> rex, did you do it? >> reporter: police say rex heuermann, a new york city architect, is the suspected serial killer they have been hunting for over a decade. heuermann lived on this quiet street in massapequa, long island. he was arrested near his manhattan office last night and arraigned today. >> rex heuermann is a demon that walks among us. a predator that ruined families. >> reporter: prosecutors said investigators were led to heuermann initially after a witness reported seeing a pickup truck when one of the victims disappeared in 2010. investigators later recovered his dna from a pizza crust he discarded in manhattan and matched it to genetic material found on the bodies. they also linked him to other evidence, including burner phones used to arrange meetings with the victims. >> we are continuing to execute search warrants, and we anticipate getting more evidence. >> reporter: today,

investigates into the suspect rex heuermann now cover new york, las vegas, and south carolina. where the 59-year-old owned property with his family. and as authorities pour over his home, they are keen on unearthing evidence and items they say heuermann may have kept as souvenirs from the killings. cnn's polo sandoval is following the latest for us live from new york. what more are you learning about what investigators are looking for, and what they're alleging? >> so fred, this is per a source that is involved in this investigation, telling cnn there are at least two reasons why investigators, since this spring, have been working with this theory, that they believe either some or all of the victims may have been killed at the home of the suspected killer rex heuermann. more starters, the fact that his wife, rex heuermann's wife was gone at the time of these murders, that these murders took place, the district attorney told me last week that they used phone record, travel documents, to confirm that. but also, secondly, the fascinating angle of how they were able to essentially

she's one of the alleged victims of rex heuermann. at dave shella went to the authorities and told the authorities what he had observed. he gave them the physical makeup of heuermann. he also told him about the truck that he was driving. guess what, neil? it looks as though the police department there dropped the ball and didn't follow up on that phase of the investigation, which was significant and could very well have bought this man to justice a lot sooner. >> neil: there's a lot we won't know about that to your point, ted. i did want to ask you about this fear of other victims and much like the story and ted bundy where there were other cities, other women, other corps, be that that could be the case here and that evidence to that might have been found in the home. what do you think? >> well, they may very well have found evidence in the home, neil. what we found when you're talking about these serial killers like you just said, ted bundy, john wayne gasey, what we found about these individuals is that they believe in taking what i

. >> reporter: rex heuermann was arrested thursday night and charged with the murders of three women is also the prime suspect in a murder of a fourth, which prosecutors feel confident they can tie him to. their bodies were found within a quarter-mile of each other near gilgo beach in late 2010. >> rex heuermann had a double life. at night time he turned into this monster. >> reporter: police honed in on rex heuermann in 2022, after he owned a truck connected to one of the disappearances. over time they found data from seven burner phones used to contact victims. more than 200 internet searches about the gilgo beach investigation, anti-dna found on the discarded pizza press to let matt crossed to heroin one of the bodies. they found 11 people in the area of gilgo beach including a toddler. and they are looking at another unsolved crime. >> there is still an awful lot of investigation that has to be done to fully understand how many people were victims to this individual. >> reporter: prosecutors say they pushed up the time frame on the arrest because rex heuermann was closely monitor

rex heuermann, who's 59, was arrested in manhattan late on thursday evening.victims were found. all of the women were in their 20s and were six workers. —— all of the women were in their 20s and were sex workers. this is my 12th year as county executive. i've lived with this investigation for my entire tenure as county executive. i can tell you that during that time, the focus for me, and members of our team, has been on bringing justice for these victims and closure to these families who have suffered. live now to our correspondent in washington, david willis. david, this is an old case. tell us a little bit about it.— a little bit about it. absolutely ri . ht. a little bit about it. absolutely riht. it a little bit about it. absolutely right. it became _ a little bit about it. absolutely right. it became known - a little bit about it. absolutely right. it became known as - a little bit about it. absolutely right. it became known as the | a little bit about it. absolutely - right. it became known as the gilgo beach murders, and it galvanised attention of peop

he was arrested near his manhattan office last night and arraigned today. >> rex heuermann is a demon that ruined families. >> reporter: prosecutors said investigators were led to heuermann initially after a witness reported seeing a pickup truck when one of the victims disappeared in 2010. investigators later recovered his dna from a pizza crust he discarded manhattan and match it to material found on the bodies. they also link him to other evidence, including burner phones used to arrange meetings with the victims. >> we are continuing to execute search warrants, and we anticipate getting more evi evidence. >> reporter: today, heuermann was charged with murder in the death of three women and is the prime suspect of another victim, whose bodies were first discovered on long island in 2010. the women, all sex workers, were found wrapped in burlap bags. shannan gilbert was among those who went missing after making this desperate call to 911. >> he's coming after me. >> where are you? >> reporter: in all, police found the remains of 11 people found in the area of gilgo beach, including

police arrested rex heuermann last week after trying to crack this case for more than a decade.en o'connell standing by with her take. first to nate foy on the story for us live from massapequa park. hi, nate. >> in the week plus that rex heuermann has been in custody, the sheriff tells fox that he's shown no emotion whatsoever and is currently on suicide watch. listen here. >> he's not even requested to read a book. he does have access to newspapers, but he chose not the read the newspapers. he's been laying on his bunk. one time looking at the ceiling. >> martha, so far heuermann's only visitor has been his attorney. his wife of 27 years filed for divorce. there's no bed sheets in his cell and wears a special suit to prevent him from hurting himself. >> some precautions are adding an additional correction officer in his housing unit. we have also put in additional cameras to make sure that there's nothing that is happening that we may have missed. >> on top of that, martha, all inmate movement is shut down. every single time that heuermann is moved. he's had no interaction wit

in new york city was arrested outside his office and charged in the gilgo beach killings. >> rex heuermanna demon that walks among us, a predator that ruined families. >> reporter: ten bodies were discovered in 2010 and 2011 terrifying quiet shore communities along island. heuermann is accused of three women, amber costello, megan waterman and melissa suspected in a fourth, maureen brainard-barnes. all founded in a wooded stretch of beach, their bodies wrapped in hunting burlap, each in their 20s, petite and working as escorts. prosecutors said took this selfie he sent using disposable phones to solicit the women for sex. >> they've compared the victim's phones with the burner phones, and they immediately honed in on some similarities. >> reporter: they linked him through the cars, his car, a chevrolet avalanche, and dna lifted from this pizza box in a trash can outside his manhattan office. 13 years after the bodies were discovered, police seized more evidence at his home in massapequa park where neighbors were stunned, saying it's shocking, an alleged serial killer lives so close for so

nate. >> investigators back here at rex heuermann's home for the fifth day. taken out typical household items. mirror, picture frame. we've seen strange items emerge from the home behind me. among them a portrait of a blood woman with a battered face and bruises around her face and a child like doll. investigators also seized over 200 guns. heuermann only had permits for 92 of them. authorities collected a playboy magazine comes as his neighborhood accuses him of creepy encounters. he would peer over the fence and watch his wife sun bath and it led to a confrontation. >> my wife told me a few times she was getting creeped out by him. i had a conversation with him. it wasn't pleasant. not a pleasant conversation. we spoke pretty harshly. but he didn't get aggressive or anything. >> happening right now as you mentioned investigators are searching a nearby storage unit. this is a live look. this is the third unit they've searched in the past three days. take a look at these new pictures in "focus." this right here is the south carolina property where multiple ou

last week's arrest of 59-year-old rex heuermann coming as a shock to his family, and now neighbors are speaking out about what authorities think happened just next door as cnn's jean casarez reports. >> reporter: crime scene investigators continue to process the scene at defendant rex heuermann's home on long island. the murders may have occurred in 2008 and 2009, but investigators continue their pursuit to find any evidence that can help prosecutors in the upcoming trial. neighbors in the area still stand in disbelief. >> the guy was odd and strange, but never violent. >> reporter: neighbors of suspected serial killer rex heuermann speaking out about his past behavior. one telling "news nation" heuermann doug holes in his back year, another saying they remained friendly after a confrontation 28 years ago when heuermann would look over the fence and try to talk to his wife while she was sunbathing. >> it happened so many times that finally i pulled him over and we had a talk. >> reporter: residence in this long island suburb still in shock. >> for something like this to happen and righ

rex heuermann is being held in that suffolk county jail tonight. i'm glad to have you back. rself on three occasions. have you seen him again since we last spoke? and, if so, is there anything you can share with us about that interaction? >> well, now mr. heuermann is out of protocol. so now he's able to engage in normal services that any inmate in our facilitate can engage in. he has participated in yard. he is receiving mail. he's making phone calls. and, so, he's acclimating, i guess, to the best of his ability, to his new confinement. >> have you been able to speak to him again in any way, or not at this point? >> you know, i have spoken to him and introduced myself. i am the sheriff of the jail and i speak to all the inmates that are in our custody as i'm making tours. it was very nondescript. there was nothing unusual about the conversation. it was just that, yes, he's been interacting with my staff and speaking to my staff regarding various things. he has been watching television. i don't know what he's been watching. he's not been reading anything, no periodicals, no

serial killing suspect continues, more people coming forward to talk about their interactions with rex heuermanneeded to get away from him. >> reporter: nikki brass telling "good morning america" telling heuermann solicited her online in 2015 when she worked as an escort and that he talked about the gilgo beach murders. >> when he talked about it, he would, like, speak in a "they" and hypothetical. but he had this, like, smile on his face. it made me really uneasy. and, like, he had this glossed over look in his eye. >> reporter: the investigation now spans the country. authorities in south carolina searching property owned by heuermann for any evidence to link the 59-year-old architect to the murder of three young women in new york in 2009 and 2010. sources tell cnn a chevy avalanche was seized from the property and is being combed for evidence. >> s.w.a.t. team, fbi, all kinds of stuff. >> reporter: those living next to the property were stunned. >> we have an adjoining property to a serial killer, which is, like, i never put that on my bucket list. >> reporter: and over 2,000 miles away in la

. >> rex heuermann is a demon that walks among us. >> charged with the murders of three women and a suspecte 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 reruns. >>> and remembering style icon jane birk

rex a. heuermann faces multiple sentences of life without parole."k, we know that he's been charged with murder and the death of three of the 11 victims in this long unsolved string of killings. he's charged with first and second-degree murder in connection with the death of three victims, the authorities say he's also the prime suspect in another killing, so from that bail application, again, if convicted on the current charges, the defendant faces multiple sentences of life without parole. >> no surprise there. they have the three arrests, he's behind bars. now they can slow down and really be methodical about chasing down all the remaining murders that are out there. but again, these -- one murder is enough to keep this guy at 59 years old behind bars for the rest of his life. so, this is a monster off the street, got to be relief for the whole community. >> sandra: interesting, more from the courthouse now, there appears to be a clear pattern wherein heuermann used burner phones and burner/junk email addresses to contact the victims. that's reall

that ruined families. >> reporter: prosecutors charging 59-year-old rex heuermann in connection to thers say heuermann murdered three of the women and is a prime suspect in the fourth. in december 2010, the bodies of the four young sex workers were found tied up, wrapped in camouflage burlap and found within days of each other. for years prosecutors say heuermann was leading a double li life. >> rex heuermann, an architect. a consultant a trouble-shooter, born and raised on long island. >> reporter: 15 miles from the scene of the crimes, life appeared normal for the husband and father of two. just last year a task force formed to investigate the department's long dormant cases and they began to zero in on heuermann. >> very delicate balance for the need of public safety and making the arrest and that challenge obviously it came to a, you know, climax on thursday afternoon. >> reporter: investigators say a crucial break came in january when they were surveilling him at his manhattan office, eating a pizza and discarded it in a public trash can, dna everyday matched hairs from a burlap s

i've seen some things, but this is wicked. >> rex heuermann, 59, charged with three murders today, the investigation continuing and follows a possible fourth murder charge. investigators say they identified heuermann using dna from the bodies of the victims and from witness descriptions of him and the car he drove. investigators obtained hundreds of search warrants and subpoenas linking heuermann to temporary burner phones and fake email accounts. investigators allege he used them to communicate with his victims, taunt the family of one of them, and search for information related to the investigation into the long unsolved murders. >> we recognize that these crimes may have happened years ago. but that pain continues. >> investigators' biggest break came when they were surveilling heuermann at his midtown manhattan office, eating pizza and discarded it in a public trash can, dna from the pizza crust, say investigators, linked heuermann to the murders. heuermann has been charged with the murders, sex workers, all in their 20s. the investigation is continuing. and is also named as a susp

rex heuermann who lived in new york was an architect, a pillar of the community. in the daytime, but at night and when his family was away, he was a sex -- chasing sex workers. >> dana: nate foye is live outside the suspect's home in massapequa park in new york. what do you have this morning snow >> this is the 11th straight day investigators have been at rex heuermann's home looking for evidence. you mentioned the "new york post" reports over the weekend they found a soundproof room in the home's basement. take a look at this video also from this weekend where crews also used an excavator and cadaver dogs and radar. they will finish at the home this week. the main detective said it could be tomorrow or the end of the week. investigation continues right now. take a live look from our drone. a source familiar with the investigation tells fox news investigators believe that heuermann murdered at least one of the victims here at his family's home. the suffolk county sheriff said investigators haven't found so-called trophies. it could change with testing of evidence.

take a listen to some of that. >> rex heuermann, i'm an architect, i'm an architectural consultant.d raised on long island. >> okay. >> been working in manhattan since 1987. >> and so, look, for investigators, there's still a lot more work to do. this is an extremely circumstance case. they have dna, phone records, they're going to keep working to get more evidence. they did search warrants on his home today. they have his vehicle. they also did a search at his office. they know they need a lot more information. for now, at least, they believe they have been able to get him off the streets. they were concerned that he was going to try and attack again because they found evidence through his phones, these burner phones that he was using that he was, again, making contact with sex workers, and so there was a lot of concern, and so they needed to move in, they said. and take him into custody. >> i'm glad you brought that up. i want to play that moment specifically when the district attorney mentioned those concerns. here's what they said. >> one of the reasons why we had to take this c

tonight, the investigation of gilgo beach, new york, serial-killing suspect rex heuermann intensified found more than 200 firearms in a walled-off vault behind a locked metal door in the basement of heuermann's long island home. none of the women heuermann is charged with killing were gunshot victims. but authorities have also searched a storage facility nearby, a source telling cnn they're trying to pinpoint whether heuermann kept any souvenirs, items belonging to the victims. >> in these serial killer cases, what we see as characteristics is that they keep things from victims so that they can use them to relive the murders, to fantasize about it again. >> reporter: the gilgo four was a group of four women whose remains were found in 2010. the case went cold, but using surveillance, dna technology, and combing through phone records, investigators zeroed in recently on heuermann, and arrested him on thursday. he's charged with murder in the killings of melissa barthelemy, amber waterman and amber costello. and he's the prime suspect in the death of a fourth woman. >> that investigatio

clarified that investigators did not find a soundproof room but a vault filled with over 200 guns in rex heuermann's basement. a source tells fox news look at the next video of the search that investigators believe heuermann murdered at least one of his victims here. so far officials will not publicly confirm that. but a crimenologist who followed this case for over a decade tells fox that would be typical of a serial killer. listen here. >> serial killers like to operate in a comfort zone in an area where they feel like they are the master of their own universe, they have all the tools that they need at their disposal. things to get rid of the body after ward. >> dana, the 59-year-old heuermann remains on suicide watch in an isolated jail cell in suffolk county. his only visitors has been his lawyer. he pleaded not guilty to murdering three women. prosecutors say he is the prime suspect in a fourth similar murder. back out here live heuermann will appear in court one week from today. as for the investigation here at his family's home, whenever police leave they plan on installing cameras and fining

it seemed to be a -- rex heuermann.pects down to where they could use anecdotal data. a truck he drove, a physical description until, ultimately, they picked rex heuermann and found a way to run dna. >> right. this started ten years ago, it was a disastrous investigation at the beginning. ten years later we have a superstar new d.a. with a new police commissioner, rodney harrison. they joined a task force, put together the top people and suddenly you have more dna data, more telephone the data to bring it all together. will: and this, the reason this took a decade, from what i've understood -- and you tell me if i'm wrong here -- it's a combination of two contributing factors. one, the advancement of dna research. simply, they couldn't have analyzed the hairs that they found ten years ago as they can today. and to be honest, the second was a lot of problems in the police departments out on long island. >> yeah. you think about it, our police chief at the time, at the beginning, 2010 when they found the bodies, he actual

police are trying to determine if the suspect, 59-year-old rex heuermann, is connected to any other unsolved murders. lilia luciano reports from long island. >>> rex, did you do it? >> reporter: the investigation into the gilgo beach murders spreads nationwide. cbs news has learned police are looking into whether one or more of the three murders rex heuermann is charged with may have taken place inside the long island home he shared with his wife and children. his family was apparently away at the time of those murders. >> there is absolutely no evidence that anyone acted with the defendant, much less his family. >> reporter: law enforcement officials tell cbs news investigators are looking to see if heuermann is connected to other unsolved murders throughout the county and the country. suffolk county officials have executed several warrants including in south carolina and las vegas where the alleged killer had ties. police in south carolina are looking into whether a 2014 missing person case could be tied to heuermann, as well. 18-year-old aaliyah bell went missing about 20 miles from where

authorities seen here going into the massapequa park home of 59-year-old rex heuermann. ces say investigators are trying to determine whether heuermann allegedly killed any victims inside his home. >> they're going to look for anything they could potentially get genetic material off of like personal effects he had taken off the victim, clothing, whatever it might be. if he used any sort of implement like a knife or something like that to harm them. >> reporter: heuermann now charged with murdering three young women in new york more than a decade ago. he has pleaded not guilty. on wednesday, asa ellerup, the wife of rex heuermann, filed for divorce after more than 25 years of marriage saying through her attorney, her family is going through a devastating time, and now the investigation expanding to other states. police in las vegas, nevada, say they are looking into possible connections to unsolved cases. heuermann and his wife owned a time share at this las vegas condo complex called club de soleil. in rock hill, south carolina, police trying to determine if heuermann cou

very identifiable and it could be the key that brought rex heuermann down in this case.n getting into one of those early versions of that kind of vehicle. this is what the district attorney told me about that witness and how they put the pieces together to identify rex heuermann as a suspect. listen. >> once we realized that rex heuermann owned a chevrolet avalanche, the truck being driven by the last individual to see the last victim amber costello alive, that was sort of a key piece of evidence because not only did he have that chevy avalanche he also matched the unique physical description of the individual. >> so they picked up that vehicle down in south carolina. at a property we're told that belongs to a family member of his. he also had another later version of that car at his home in long island that was seized by police. >> the details are fascinating. authorities said they had him on their radar for more than a year. >> you know, they had the dna, right from the crime scene, they identified him as a suspect, they're able then to try to find him and actually mat

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they're now using excavation equipment to dig up rex heuermann's backyard.n charged in the murders of three women, and he's suspected in the killing of a fourth. lilia luciano has more. >> reporter: as police continue to search rex heuermann's long island home, sources tell cbs news investigators believe at least one of the murders he's charged with happened in the house he shared with his wife and adult children. suffolk county district attorney raymond turny is overseeing the investigation. >> there's absolutely no evidence that anyone acted with the defendant, much less his family. >> reporter: cbs news has learned that heuermann's wife filed for divorce wednesday. meanwhile, law enforcement sources say investigators are working to determine if he was involved in a string of unsolved murders in atlantic city, new jersey. police have also executed search warrants in places heuermann allegedly had ties, including las vegas and south carolina. where a truck that may have been used in one of the long island mufrds was recovered. the break in heuermann's case

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the fourth straight day investigators have been at rex heuermann's home related to the killing. the fox drone is looking at the house where he lived with his wife and two children and over the weekend we saw investigators remove a live child-like doll and multiple guns from the home. not the only focus of the investigation. a short drive away from where we are investigators are searching a storage facility for any evidence tying heuermann to the murders, all this comes after his arrest on thursday night. you see the 59-year-old architect leaving work in mid town manhattan after 8:30 p.m. as he is walking down fifth avenue he is confronted by a group of detectives in plain clothes and they take him into custody. detectives connected him to three murders by matching dna from pizza crust he threw away to material found on all woman's body. it helped investigators 0 in on him. the 59-year-old is charged with murdering three women who worked ass courts in 2009 and 2010 and a prime suspect in another killing. 11 bodies were found in the bay. live in one case prosecutors say he used a

. >> rex heuermann is a demon that walks among us. >> reporter: prosecutors say 59-year-old rex heuermannhitect in new york city and father of two, killed three women -- melissa barthelemy, megan waterman and amber costello -- and is now the prime suspect in the death of a fourth, maureen brainard-barnes. their bodies each wrapped in burlap, discovered in a wooded area along the beach within a quarter mile of one another in december 2010. >> for the next 13 years, their cases went unsolved. until today. >> reporter: in court today, heuermann pleading not guilty. heuermann was taken into custody at 8:30 p.m. thursday at his fifth avenue firm in manhattan. this morning, investigators in white forensic suits converging on heuermann's home in massapequa park, not far from where the bodies were found. the investigation going cold until last year, when detectives linked heuermann to a chevrolet avalanche a witness reported seeing when one of the women vanished. they also connected him to burner cellphones used to arrange meetings with three of the four victims. whenever the target phones would

new york architect rex heuermann has been charged in connection wit with three gilgo murders. >> it goesack to 2010 in long island. they recovered ten bodies, most of them women. investigators walk us through how they broke this case. >> i'm standing here with my law enforcement partners ans and th gilgo task force to announce the indictment of rex heuermann. >> reporter: sex workers found tied up, their bodies covered in burlap and dumped along the beach. the gilgo beach murders traumatized and captivated long island east of new york city for more than a decade. now the suspect as unthinkable as the murders themselves. >> this is a shock. like i said, i've seen some things, but this is something. >> reporter: rex heuermann, 59, charged with three murders. the investigation continuing, he face as possible fourth murder chark. investigators say they identified heuermann using dna from the bodies of the victims and from witness descriptions of him and the car he drove. investigators obtained hundreds of search warrants and subpoenas linking heuermann to temporary burner phones and fake ema

daughter of the man charged with flee of the gil gilgo beach murders were shocked to discover that rex heuermannas living a double life. police commissioner says there has always been reason to link the suspect to the case. >> in the case with rex, every investigate difference step that we took failed to eliminate him and so they narrowed their focus.difference step that we took failed to eliminate him and so they narrowed their focus. every step that we took led us further and further down that road. >> and now more troubling information continues to come in as police dig for the truth. brian todd has more. >> reporter: the investigation of gilgo beach killer rex heuermann intensifying. they found firearms behind a locked door in his home and investigators were still removing the guns on monday afternoon. none of the women heuermann is charged with killing were gunshot victims, but authorities have also searched a storage facility, a source telling cnn that they are trying to pinpoint whether heuermann kept any souvenirs, items belonging to the victims. >> what we see in offender characteristic

heuermann left her a voicemail in february. sharing the recording with our station, wabc. >> hey this is rex. >> reporter: authorities say heuermann's use of burner phones, his google searches about the case, and dna lifted from this pizza crust, helped tie him to the murders. heuermann's attorney entering a not guilty plea on his behalf. said his client denies all wrongdoing. >> linsey: an arrest in this case has been years in the making. reena roy joins us now. investigators have removed multiple guns from his long island home? >> reporter: linsey, that's right. images taken by dailymail.com show some of the weapons taken out of his home this morning. prosecutors say he had licenses for 92 guns. detectives have been scouring his residence saying they're leaving no stone unturned in this investigation. linsey. >> linsey: rena, thank you. >> linsey: there's also news about the capture of the escaped murder suspect and self-taught survivalist. michael burham is back behind bars after a nine-day manhunt. police received a tip about a suspicious person at a home in northwestern pennsylvania. alex presha is on the story tonight. >> repo

i've seen some things, but this is something. >> rex heuermann, 59, charged with three murders today, and the investigation continuing, he faces a possible fourth murder charge. investigators say they identified heuermann using dna from the bodies of the victims, and from witness descriptions of him and the car he drove. investigators obtained hundreds of search warrants and subpoenas linking heuermann to temporary burner phones and fake email accounts. investigators allege he used them to communicate with his victims, taunt the family of one of them, and search for information related to the investigation into the long unsolved murders. >> we recognized that these crimes may have happened years ago, but that pain continues. >> reporter: investigators' biggest break came when they were surveilling heuermann at his midtown manhattan office. he was eating pizza and discarded it in a public trash can. dna from the pizza crust, say investigators, linked heuermann to the murders. heuermann has been charged with the murders of melissa and amberlin and megan waterman, all sex workers all in

a source tells cnn they are pursuing the theory that an accused killer rex heuermann lowered his victims house when his family was away. authorities also say they are combing his house and possessions for any articles that might it belong to the victims and police are calling them trophies. >> reporter: as authorities continue to collect evidence that they hope will prosecutors in the gilgo beach murder investigation, they continued to do go with the working theory that some or all of the victims may have been murdered at the house suspected serial killer rex heuermann. that's according to a source close to the investigation who says documents state that before each of the victims went missing over a decade ago, triangulation other cell phones placed them in massapequa park about 40 miles east of new york city which is where rex heuermann lived with his family. add to that, authorities have been able to confirm that his wife was actually out of town at the time of the murders, potentially presenting an ideal opportunity for the murders to take place here. in terms of the investigation it

like i said, 29 years here, i've seen some things, but this is it. >> reporter: rex heuermann chargedith three murders today, the investigation continuing. he faces a possible fourth murder charge. investigators say they identified heuermann using dna from the bodies of the victims and from witness descriptions of him and the car he drove. investigators obtained hundreds of search warrants and subpoenas linking heuermann to temporary burner phones and fake email accounts. investigators allege he used them to communicate with his victims, taunt the family of one of them and search for information related to the investigation into the long unsolved murders. >> we recognize that these crimes may have happened years ago, but that pain continues. >> reporter: investigators' biggest break came when surveilling heuermann at his midtown manhattan office. he was eating pizza and discarded it in a public trash kang. dna from the crust, say investigators, linked heuermann to the murders. heuermann has been charged with the murders of melissa bar little economy and megan waterman a& only three an

rex heuermann seen in an old you tube video boasting about his career running his architecture firm. >> i'm an architectural consultant, a troubleshooter, born and raised on long island. >> reporter: heuermann appeared in court handcuffed and dishevelled, his attorney entering a not guilty plea on his behalf, and saying heuermann denies being the killer. but prosecutors have been watching this suspect for more than a year. they feared he could still be a danger saying he was still using burner phones to search for child pornography and solicit sex workers and had 92 guns. guys, he's now being held without bail. >> janai: so much still to come in this case, aaron. still coming up, in our "gma" morning menu, the new report out on how dancing can cure -- help reduce depression. dr. alok patel joins us live to break down the benefits >> whit: not going quietly, why more and more americans are loud quitting, the new numbers out this morning on the workplace trend. >> gio: plus '90s nostalgia furbies turns 25. >> whit: that off button is key. >> whit: that off button is key. . they have eve

at the riverhead correctional facility, the sheriff's main priority is keeping rex heuermann alive becausel killer is on suicide watch. listen here. >> the focus now aside from watching the investigation is to make sure that each and every day mr. heuermann is still intact in a way that we got him so that he can be brought to justice in the courts and not in our jails. >> the 59-year-old father of two, neil, has not had a single visit at the jail other than his lawyer in his week plus in custody. heuermann has had no interaction with roommates. the sheriff says he has access to the newspaper but so far has chose not to read it. the sheriff says they're using extra personnel and cameras to make sure that they don't miss anything. >> the type of garment that would prevent them from self-harm. he has no sheets inside of his cell because of the likelihood that anyone in this situation could possibly harm themselves. if they have suicidal ideations. >> neil, heuermann's wife of 27 years filed for divorce wednesday. her lawyer says the family is going through a devastating time and wish for priv

if you could first explain the process of matching rex heuermann's dna found on that piece of crossed with the bodies of melissa barthelemy, megan waterman, and amber costello. >> it is interesting when the four bodies were removed from the burlap bag, examination of the contents of the bag showed five hairs. five individual hairs and most of them attached to duct tape he used he tied the bags up. and so to duct tape is a terrific forensic tool because it captures fingerprints, dna in this case it captured individual hairs. nothing much was done until the new team came in just a year ago they still had those hairs and examinations of the hair not for dna did not turn up any genetic dna nuclear dna that comes from both parents. but it did turn up mitochondrial dna at different dna that comes only from the mom. four of the hairs had female d dna. they went to the trash of the house and got some bottles out that matched the dna from his wife. they thought was to transfer dna from what he had in the car or on his hands when he got to the duct tape. one strand not a strand a single hair ha

police say rex heuermann killed at least three women, dumping their bodies in the gilgo beach area of long island. >> reporter: a storage business in amitiville and rex heuermann's home investigators are continuing their search for clues, link being the 59-year-old architect to the murders >> i'm trying to figure out, what could be over here? it's making me more scared than what i am. i don't know what's over there >> reporter: amitiville resident bobbie mitchell watched from across the street as police appeared to search multiple units at omega storage >> there's a school here children coming here no telling how often he was coming to this facility over here >> reporter: neighbor unique palmer says police vehicles have been here since sunday but a man answering the storage facility's phone refused comment today when asked if heuermann rented space here. >> i get calls from all over, california, florida, friends going, i can't believe that guy lived in your neighborhood >> reporter: investigators spent a fourth day in massapequa park. the husband and father of two is charged with the

and that's after the arrest of rex heuermann. say they can prove three murders and he's a key surface in a fourth. they are searching a storage unit near his home. investigators said they collected a trove of evidence including more than 200 firearms found stashed in a vault behind a locked metal basement door. let's get into this with brynn gingras. what more can you tell us about the items that officials found in his home? >> reporter: we just saw two investigators leaving the home behind me of rex heuermann with two of those big guns, likely putting them into evidence. but they are pulling a number of things from this home and it was a basement in the floor of this home behind a locked door that investigators say they found an arsenal of weapons. i want you to hear more from the police commissioner. >> over 200 guns. he had an arsenal in his -- in a vault that he had downstairs. it was concerning regarding the guns being registered or legal or not, that's something that we're still taking a look at. but any time somebody has t

the suspect's wife breaking her silence as rex heuermann prepares to appear in court this week.gine, stephanie, what his wife must be feeling. >> i know. it's pretty remarkable. a lot of people are wondering that about the family. you have to imagine some of that pressure pushed this statement out. rex heuermann's wife is asking for privacy and normalcy in her neighborhood, where the public, investigators, media, all descending upon that neighborhood as her husband is accused of multiple murders and leading a kind of double life where prosecutors say he was a professional commuting into manhattan for his job, but that he was also a serial killer. days after investigators wrapped up collecting evidence at rex heuermann's home, his wife, asa ellerup and two adult children returned to a life they don't recognize. >> their life has been thrown upside down the last few weeks. >> reporter: the family is now asking for privacy, writing in a statement that they have endured profound and indescribable catastrophe. the wife adding i am pleading with you all to give us some space so we can

linked to the alleged killer of three young women on long island. >> this was the first time that rex heuermann's name had come up and the first time that he had been identified as a potential suspect. >> reporter: heuermann also owns a condo in las vegas, and tonight police there tell us they're "reviewing unsolved cases to see if he has any involvement." for a fifth straight day, authorities scouring his suburban home where they've already retrieved more than 200 guns. prior to his arrest last week, prosecutors say heuermann searched obsessively about the gilgo beach investigation, and while he was in custody, he's said to have asked, "is it in the news?" >> i can't really talk about the statements, you know. suffice to say, he was very surprised. >> reporter: heuermann has pleaded not guilty and is being held tonight on suicide watch. david. >> david: aaron katersky, thank you. >>> now to the war in ukraine and tonight russia unleashing a missile and drone attack on ukraine calling it, a mass revenge strike for the attack on that key bridge in crimea, a bridge russia depends on. james longman