ran from the party and then toward the beach. >> that was the last i saw of her. >> reporter: shannon gilbert had disappeared. months later, >> missing persons unit called us out on saturday to follow up on an investigation on a missing person. >> reporter: during a search for gilbert, an officer and his cadaver dog made a startling discovery. >> at some point, the dog gave me an indication, which means his tail started waving, he started sampling the air. at that point, i saw the skeletal remains of a body. there is no indication that this is shannon from may 1st of this year. >> reporter: it was not shannon gilbert. and it was not just one body. >> we were quite surprised the second day, when we found a second body. it was approximately 500 feet west of the first body. then, we conducted a more detailed search and we found a third body and a fourth body. they were all within about 500 feet of each other. >> reporter: can you give more details about how they were found? >> most of the victims were bound, feet and hands. their bodies were covered in a camouflaged type of burlap that is used t

in 2010, missing shannon gilbert. may 1st she made a 5:00 a.m. 911 call from a gated community on long island saying someone was after her. during the search for gilbert, police discovered bodies of four other women. 24-year-old melissa, 25-year-old maureen, 22-year-old megan, and 27-year-old amber. now known as the gilgo four. all reportedly worked as craigslist escorts. four were found wrapped in burlap and 1/10th of a mile of each other along the shores of gilgo beach. and then it claimed to eight women, and an unidentified man and a toddler. police speculate if the death is related to the other four. the case is in the hands of the grand jury. heuermann will have a court appearance in an hour. >> sandra: thank you very much. mary ellen o'toole, former fbi profiler and director of forensic sciences at george mason university. thank you for joining us. we could be seeing the suspect any moment now in the next hour it is expected this court appearance will happen. what do you believe was the break in this case after

and i represent shannon gilbert's family as well as jessica taylor's family, two of the victims. we're delighted that finally something is happening. i suspect that the arrest deals with the four young women who were covered with burlap and that were buried tandem one with the other, and not with the other victims. they may be able to link this fellow up with the other victims, but not yet. >> dana: john, i have so many questions. i followed this case for a long time. it captured the imagination of so many people. i've read a novel based on the story, podcasts, movies, and all the while you stood there with those families promising them you would keep at it and the police would keep at it. given what you have known and where we can see the police are today making this arrest, did you ever have any suspicions about anybody in this area? >> yes, we did. we've been -- we've gathered in my firm, i've been doing this case for going in our 12th year on it. we have gathered a huge volume of evidence and information, much of it leads to massapequa, for example, the pinging on the phone c

shannon gilbert's family believes she was the victim of a serial killer, even though her death was ruleding. >> todd: sir, shannon was seen knocking on neighbor doors while on the phone with 911. how did police go from that to saying that this killing or this death was not a homicide, but a drowning? >> the police concluded shannon had drown before they had located her remains, they did not know where she was. the theory was absurd. they had evidence shannon was saying they are trying to kill me. she was accosted. there is not evidence that she went into the marsh where she is said to have drown and the body was face up laying with the head on a bush. it is impossible for that to have occurred. the police have changed their story and say she died of a tragic unknown accident. these are homicide detectives who have no evidence, that unheard of. there is overwhelming evidence she was murdered. i brought in dr. michael bodin, medical examiner, and dr. bodin and i looked at the bones of shannon and did an autopsy. you could see the bone in the throat was fractured, when the bone is fractured

they don't find shannon until a year later when they get shannon gilbert. she is -- the medical examiner determines that the cause of death is undrermd. police say she is not involved in the -- with the same person. the mom and her attorney john ray contacted me to do a second examination. when i did a second autopsy examination there was a fracture of the hyoid bone. evidence she was strangled and murdered and was part of the perpetrator, what the per pet traitor did. that's still up in the air. the official death of shannon gilbert is still not classified as part of the deaths. the dna, whatever dna was recovered from the four victims and any of the other victims, certainly are going to be matched to the person they just arrested. >> harris: that's fascinating. this is shannon. her family, her mom and attorney reached out to you, can you take a second look, you did. back then they didn't have forensicly what they will get with this suspect, wrecks, as you just pointed out. what can they get from him? what was there with her that you could use to match whe

not from june 6 of 2010 with the shannon gilbert murder.ng that period and i'm really certain that we will see that to be true. the facts will bear that out. >> neil: a lot of these folks have said it's like the ted bundy investigation, went to other locals. they're talking about a condo he rented in atlantic city, in las vegas where he was and these other states and all. do you spacex spekt -- suspects there's more victims? >> i suspect and reasonably convinced for a number of rinse. a 13 year vacation from the urges, the savage urges that compelled him to murder in young ladies doesn't vanish. i believe he was busy. also he is very arrogant and believed that he was invisible and invincible. you saw how surprised he was when the detectives grabbed him in midtown. he thought all his behavior, fictitious e-mail accounts, fake phones, fictitious escort accounts, he thought that they were smarter than the collective intelligence of all the investigators. guess what? dead wrong. dead wrong. >> neil: dead wrong is right. we're still in the early

my case continues in the civil court as against peter hacket on the death of shannon gilbert.hat's still on the table, still going full force. so we are satisfied with what occurred today and finally a touch of justice has come to suffolk county. how i would look at it. we were caught not completely by surprise. we had a tip not quite a week ago that something was about to occur. it was a very good tip, a credible source, so not surprised. just surprised when it happened, that it was first known early in the morning hours apparently, he was arrested in new york city, and we are surprised at who it is because we don't have any information about this man. so, about you -- >> police arrested him in new york city. >> this man was arrested in new york city, yeah. and we are hoping some of the other evidence that we have will be helpful to the district attorney in this prosecution as well as others. >> what do you think about the other bodies found [indiscernible] >> we are hoping that the murderers of those women will be located. now the police have been hopefully regenerated. it a

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i didn't do this >> reporter: in total, investigators found 11 bodies in the area, including shannon gilbertwho made this 911 call the night of her disappearance >> where are you, ma'am? >> i don't know. >> reporter: this week heuermann who is not charged in gilbert's case was seen walking calmly in manhattan, apparently unaware that detectives were just moments away from placing him under arrest suffolk district attorney raymond says -- >> this is the only beginning. there are other victims as well. and it's our hope that we're able to get some progress on those cases. >> rex >> hello >> how you doing >> good to see you >> likewise. i hope you don't mind, i brought my assistant with me norman >> hello, norman >> it's raining out? >> reporter: we're also learning about heuermann. a new york-based architect from this youtube interview he did last year. >> rex, you're an architect, architectural consultant, troubleshooter, born and raised on long island >> what has your job taught you about yourself >> i think it's taught me more about how to understand people because -- >> interesting >> deal

occurred, in 2010, police were out looking for a woman who was reported missing, and that was shannon gilberty. within a year, they had something, remains of 10 to 11 victims. and they were baffled about all of this, not knowing how, what the connection was, but there was a connection that many of these victims were sex workers, and so now we have heard from a sister of one of the victims, sherry gilbert, the sister of shannon gilbert, she says i'm overwhelmed but relieved that they finally caught him. it has been a long time coming. and i never gave up. we'll learn more in the coming hours. >> thank you very much for bringing that to us. a lot developing, thank you. >>> turning now to today's daily health. there is some confusion this week about a possible artificial sweetener and possible ties to kearns. we're talking about aspartame, found in things like diet soda, ice cream, cereal, chewing gum, cereal and toothpaste and some medication. a new report of the cancer group of the world health organization said it could be a carcinogen. but the food and drug administration is pushing back on

. >> reporter: in total investigators found 11 bodies in the area, including shannon gilberts who made this 911 call the night of her disappearance. >> where are you, ma'am? >> i don't know. >> reporter: this week heuerman, who is not charged in gilbert's case was seen walking calmly in manhattan, apparently unaware detectives were moments from placing him under aarrest. >> this is only the beginning. there are these other victims as well and it's our hope that we're able to get some progress on those cases. >> rex, hello! >> how are you doing >> good to see you. >> likewise. i hope you don't mind, i brought my assistant with me, norman. >> hello, norman i see it's raining out. >> reporter: we're also learning more about heuerman, a new york-based architect from this youtube interview he did last year. >> rex heuerman. i'm an architect i'm an architectural consultant, a troubleshooter, born and raised on long island. >> what is this job taught you about yourself >> i think it's taught me more about how to understand people >> interesting >> because dealing with the technical aspects. >

>> i was asked by the family of shannon gilbert to do a re-examination for its casino because the initialort found 2010, shortly after the berlin war were found, police decided she died of drowning in the marshy area and i did a re-examination and found he had a fractured hyoid bone which evidence she was strangled. 2016 and autopsy out there, the attorney for the family there tried to reach -- he reached the appropriate share of people who didn't respond. they weren't interested in 2016 that sharing might have been part of the persons who were murdered. just recently apparently in the new investigation when the prosecutor was able to get hold off her 911 call, she called 911 desperately on the 911 call saying somebody was behind her trying to kill her and that was the last time anybody heard from her so that has to be looked at also. >> got to bring in our friend, paul, former nypd inspector. if you can go into some of the details of this task force and maybe you can give insight of what the task force did, other djs and commissioners didn't do. >> i think there's a couple of storylines

the investigation begins in 2010 with the search of missing 23-year-old shannon gilberts. police discovered the bodies of four other women now down as the gilgo four. back in january, they found dna on pizza crusts that connected him to three of the murders. documents also revealed the married father of two frequently sought out sex workers and conducted online searches related to prostitution and child pornography. he's in custody held without bail. a bail hearing is scheduled for august 1st. if he's convicted, he could face multiple sentences and more charges could be filed. more on that, mike, back to you. >> ashley, thank you very much. >> let's bring in nicole parker, former fbi special agent, class action attorney, kelly hines. >> nice to see you. >> we'll convict him and hold him responsible for what he did and whether, you know, what i think of him personally or whether i don't like him -- does not matter. we are going to hold him responsible for what he did in this case. >> nicole, how did they hold him accountable for these crimes? >> this is a very important day

back in 2010 when police searched for missing 23-year-old shannon gilbert officers discovered the bodies of four other women. 24-year-old melissa. 22-year-old megan waterman, and 27-year-old amber lynn costello. the women were identified as sex workers and known as the go-go four. their remains were found within a quarter mile of gilgo beach in 2010 and heuermann was linked to the killings by burner phones allegedly use today arrange meetings for the victims. and the d.a. telling fox and friends, the suspect eventually messed up. >> as disciplined as you are with regard to burner phones, you will slip up and once law enforcement could focus on you, they'll find associations. >> heuermann is held without bail. his next court date is august 1st. aishah, i want to mention, prosecutors say they linked him to the crimes by his car, a chevrolet avalanche which since haus been towed from the scene. aishah: thank you, cb. griff: for more insight on this shocking case, joining me is retired special agent, john, thank you, this is quite a story and i want your insight. you just heard cb's reportin

and there was a phone call from shannon gilbert, called the police that i am followed. and police believe it's this man, and 52 minutes away from the law enforcement news conference where they will layout more about their case. how they closed in on rex horrman and how they determined he is their man. and arrested last night. that is the stunning perp walk. and back to son of sam case and many of that grew up in the larger metropolitan area and went after young women. and learn more. and take things out of his moment and pled not guilty and during the searches found the remains back decades ago in 2000, melissa bartholmy. and megan waterman. and maureen barnes, 25 years old. think of the impact on the families of these young women and how much they will all have to begin to relive what happened to their daughter, their sister. their cousin. these young women whose faces that you see now on your screen who's bodies found in burlap in gilgo beach. and now a suspect in this case, rex horman, 59 years old and in one of the cases the police believe that his wife was out of t

you reported on how shannon gilbert's family struggle to even get her listed as a missing person.even after it came out that she had made a 911 call that night during which she insisted was trying to kill her. >> it's astonishing and shis not the only. maureen brainardars disappeared in 2007 and for years never made it onto the missing persons list the one they found her remains of a serial killer story broke everyone was interested. i have written this and everyone wants to know about them but no one wants to treat their sisters like human beings and to see they had lives beyond the money they made from escort work for this period of their lives and i hope lusk rose did something to help that but also more to the point it disheartening to see -- and heartening to see the police hugging the families victims. >> they brought them in. where do you think it goes from here? we know he has in charge that he pled not guilty. he said he did not do it. there are other six that of remains in addition. >> that fourth suspect did murder is maureen brainard- barnes and it does seem like it's

beginning 2010 with search of a missing woman, 23 old shannon gilbert. during the search they discovered the bodies of four other women, 23 old melissa -- from federal green barns, try-- all were reportedly working as craigslist escorts. according to court documents, he has been on investigators radar for months, in january they confiscated a pizza box, which he threw away in a dumpster, on it they found dna that connected him to the murders. humans also say he used burner for us to contact sex partners and to conduct online searches b& sex and prostitution as well as quote violent sadistic child pornography. rex heuermann plead not guilty to all six charges against him. his bail hearing has been rescheduled for august 1. the convicted he could face multiple life sentences. we are waiting for the press conference, when it begins we will take our viewers live. >> all right, great reporting as always. i'm going to the former fbi special agent we've also got a detective, attorney, and fox news contributor. will begin with justice might take a while. but if

it began in 2010 for the missing woman, shannon gilbert.ice discovered the bodies of four other women. 24-year-old melissa bartholomew, a 22-year-old, a 23-year-old and a 27-year-old. known as the gill go four. reportedly worked as craig's lists courts and they were found wrapped in burr lap and found a 10th of a mile from each other. by the spring of 2011 the number of bodies climbed to ten. eight women and unidentified man and toddler. neighbors expressed shock this morning. >> it's crazy. it's mind blowing. quiet neighborhood. >> we're shocked. this is a very quiet neighborhood. we're all friendly and never been a problem at all. >> the suspect will have a court appearance later today. we'll bring you more information as we get it in here. >> bill: thank you so much. a retired nypd lieutenant and mercedes cowen. joe, if they have the murdereder in custody why has this case been so difficult to solve? >> because first of all, the evidence is slowly coming in. they were stymied in the beginning of it. the new police commissioner started a

another woman found dead gilgo beach shannon gilbert whose family believes she was also the victim of serial killer even though her death was ruled a drowning. her family's lawyer joined us earlier on "fox & friends first" and had this to say. >> there is not a scintilla of evidence shah gill better ever went into the marsh where she is said to have drowned and the body, when it was found, was face up laying with its head on a bush. so it's impossible for that to have occurred. >> gilbert's family believes heuermann could have been involved in their daughter's death. the biden administration launching a beta version of a new website today for its new income driven student loan repayment plan. it comes as federal student loan repayments are set to resume in october after the supreme court struck down biden's student debt forgiveness plan. the website, which can be accessed on student aid.gov, will help borrowers make payments based on income and emphasize. and here's a look at will having some fun in the sun yesterday, going down a water slide right here on fox square. the slide was ju

back in 2010 when police searched for missing 23-year-old han nongilbert, officers -- shannon gilbertficers discovered the bodies of melissn braynard barnes, 22-year-old megan waterman and 27-year-old amber lynn costello. the women known as escorts. their remains were found within a quarter mile stretch of gilgo beach back in 2010, but in total at least ten sets of remains were found between 2010 and 2011. investors say back in january of last year, heuermann's dna was collected on pizza crust, and that the links him to hair on one of the remains. he was also linked by burner phones allegedly used to arrange meetings with some of the victims. >> whenever the target phones would bounce off a cell tower, if the heuermann personal pone bounced off -- phone bouncedded off a tower, it was always consistent and in close proximity with the target phone. >> reporter: heuermann is being held without bail. his next court date is august 1st. aishah: okay. we know you'll be following it for us. thank you, c.b. griff: well, the highest court in the land under the microscope with justices from both

reporter: -- there was renewed interest in another cold case along that same beach, the death of shannon gilbertse body was found miles from the so-called gilgo four. the search for gilbert leading investigators to their bodies in 2010. the gilbert family longing to have her case reopened. police say her death was an accident, but the family still believes she was murdered. >> i hope they do the right thing and find out the truth of what happened to my sister. >> reporter: and in those three murders, heuermann's attorney entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. the judge ordering him held without bail. gio? >> gio: all right, reena roy in a rainy new york, thank you so much. let's go ahead and bring in commissioner rodney harrison from the suffolk county police department. commissioner harrison created the task force that led to the arrest. thank you for being here. we all watched you on friday. at the beginning of your statement, you hugged family members of the victims. what was going through your mind at that moment? >> you know, i just can't imagine what they had to endure over the last 10 t

the investigation began in 2010 with the search for missing 23-year-old shannon gilbert.olice discovered the bodies of four other women hidden along a beach highway. melissa barth mali. barnes. 22-year-old meghan waterman and 27-year-old amber lynn costello now known as the gilgo 4. all reportedly working as craigslist escorts. court documents show heuerman has been on investigator's radar for months. in january. they found d.n.a. on pizza crust that connected him to the murders documents show he used burner phones to contact sex partners and conducted online searches related to sex and prostitution as well as, quote: violent sadistic child pornography. muirman is in custody held without bail. a bail hearing is scheduled for august 1st. if convicted he could face multiple life sentences and investigators say more charges could be filed. shannon? >> shannon: lauren green thank you for getting us up to date. joining us now is suck sex county attorney. good to have you with us today. your press conference was so detailed in explaining how all of this came together. you decid

back in 2010 when police searched for missing 23-year-old shannon gilbert with, officers discovered the four other women. melissa, maureen maynard barnes and amber lynn costello. the women were identified as sex workers. their remains were found within a quarter mile stretch of gilgo beach back in 2010, but in total ten sets of remains were found between 2010 and 2011. investigators say back in january of this year, heuermann's dna was collected on pizza crust linking him to the murders. prosecutors say heuermann was also link to the killings by burner phones allegedly used to arrange meetings with some of the victims. >> whenever the target phones would bounce off a cell tower, if the heuermann personal phone bounced off a tower, it was always consistent and in close proximity with the target phones. >> reporter: heuermann is being held without bail. his next court date is august 1st and, neil, i also want to mention we are in front of his home at this hour. investigators continue to do their work. obviously, there's a lot of public in this case. you've got neighbors out here, other pe

of human remains were found along gilgo beach after police started searching for 24-year-old shannon gilbertrimary, where three florida residents are running for the nomination. donald trump, governor ron desantis and now miami mayor francis suarez. each has, well, campaign that is laying the ground work to win florida's 125 delegates. and key is the state's cuban-american vote. it is playing a bigger role than ever before and nbc news correspondent and news now anchor morgan radford joins us this morning. first of all, it is great to see you. >> great to be back with you. >> we shouldn't be talking about things like -- it is an important story, but your 5-month-old baby daughter just -- she is the most amazing little girl. >> sorry, let's go back to the story. i haven't seen you in a while. the cuban-american vote in florida, how important is it and how is it tracking? >> important role, right? bigger than ever as we have seen recently. but this is interesting because we talked to people there on the ground, put simply, this race is not close. we spoke to voters, political experts, campaign

you reported on how shannon gilbert's family struggled to even get her listed as a missing person. insisted someone was trying kill her. >> maureen brainard-barnes disappeared in 2007 and for years never made it onto the missing persons list. once they found her remains, suddenly everyone is interested. these family members have been in the most peculiar position, kaitlan. i've been getting into this in "lost girls," and i've been writing about it ever since. everyone wants to know about their sisters but no one wants to treat their sisters like human beings. to see they had lives beyond the money they made from escort work. i hope "lost girls" did some something. the police commissioner gave hugs to the families members today. that was pretty heartening. >> they brought them with them. where do you think it goes from here? he's pleaded not guif course, we have to note, and said he didn't do it. but they say he's the prime suspect in a fourth murder as well. there are six other sets of remains in addition to that. >> that fourth suspected murder is maureen brainard-barnes, and it d

those stunning discoveries really coming after police began searching for 24-year-old sex worker shannon gilbertk in 2010. this morning, again, police on the ground in massapequa park, the home to rex herman according to sources. neighbors say they didn't notice anything out of the ordinary about the suspect. take a listen here. >> we've been here for about 30 years, and the guy's been quiet, never really bothers anybody. we were kind of shocked to tell you the truth. >> the guy, he keeps to himself. he pretty much keeps to himself. we'd say hello to each other once in a while, that was it. morning pleasantries. >> and we should learn more information at 4:00 p.m. today. the news conference is scheduled on long island, and a host of officials will be on the ground there including the district attorney, police commissioner, sheriff, state police and fbi after this major break in a case that has, again, confounded police and authorities for more than a decade and attracted national spotlight. >> wow, we will stay tuned for more information at that press conference, emilie ikeda, thank you. >>> nex