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00:02The search for the Gilgo Beach serial killer dragged on for 13 long years.
00:09But it didn't have to be that way.
00:12It wasn't the amazing Kreskin came in and figured the shit out.
00:16It was on paper 13 years. It's sickening.
00:21Eleven bodies dumped in a five-mile radius.
00:24Rex Heuerman has been charged with murdering three.
00:27If he is the serial killer, it's likely he murdered more.
00:33This is kind of an addictive aspect.
00:36They just have to act on that impulse.
00:40Cops had clues for more than a decade that would have led them to Heuerman's doorstep.
00:46But those clues were ignored.
00:48I gave them the guy's description down to his beady-ass eyes.
00:52They had everything they needed.
00:54Some women who encountered Heuerman knew what was up.
00:58I told people for years.
01:00I had dinner with the Gilgo Beach killer.
01:03Yet authorities turned a blind eye, in large part because of the top cop.
01:08He was morally, sexually corrupt.
01:11He was a pervert.
01:12And he was the one running the show.
01:14The tragic reality, the bungling, the corruption, the missed clues may have spiked the body count.
01:22He may well have burial ground that has yet to be discovered.
01:26It's a travesty of justice with fatal consequences.
01:30TMZ investigates Gilgo Beach serial murders missed warning signs.
01:52Rex Sherman is a demon that walks among us.
02:04A predator that ruined families.
02:17If not for the members of this task force, he would still be on the streets today.
02:30Rex, did you do it?
02:34On July 13th, 59-year-old Rex Heuerman was arrested and charged with murdering three women
02:41found dead on Gilgo Beach on New York's Long Island back in 2010.
02:47The skeletal remains were found in this shallow grave.
02:54It was a mystery that haunted a community for more than a decade.
02:59And it should have never taken that long.
03:02It seems to me this should have been solved in the first three months rather than 13 years later.
03:06I really, really feel bad if this person went out and killed other people during this time.
03:12And, you know, we dropped the ball.
03:15I gave them the f***ing guy's description down to his beady-ass eyes.
03:19His size, height, weight, everything.
03:21Hair color, f***ing, you name it.
03:22They had everything they needed.
03:24They had everything.
03:28The victims, Megan Waterman, Melissa Bartholomew, and Amber Costello.
03:36Heuerman is also the prime suspect in the murder of Maureen Brainerd Barnes.
03:42They're known as the Gilgo Four.
03:45There were four bodies that had been disposed of in a similar fashion in the thicket,
03:51in a very isolated, desolate area there on Long Island.
03:55It was obvious that we were dealing with a serial killer.
04:03And there's another common threat.
04:05All of them were sex workers.
04:16There were a total of 11 bodies found within a five-mile radius.
04:21Authorities dismissed some as unrelated, but not everyone is buying that.
04:26There's also the distinct possibility that we're looking at a serial killer who evolved.
04:32One who went from dismemberment to one who simply said,
04:37I'm going to leave these bodies wrapped in burlap because it's simply an easier thing to do.
04:48State police.
04:49Yeah, there's somebody after me.
04:52I'm sorry?
04:53There's somebody after me.
04:5424-year-old Shannon Gilbert was not one of the Gilgo Four,
04:58but her mysterious disappearance back in 2010 led cops to discover there was a serial killer on the loose.
05:07Are you driving right now?
05:09No, I'm in front of the house.
05:12Early in the morning of May 1st, Shannon, a sex worker, makes a 22-minute 911 call
05:19from a client's home near Gilgo Beach, claiming she's in big trouble.
05:24What's wrong?
05:25Huh?
05:26What happened?
05:28These people are plotting to kill me.
05:30Toward the end of the call, Shannon takes off running, her phone still connected to 911.
05:53Shannon?
05:57The wonder she's a phone and she's talking to me.
06:09She's never heard from again.
06:23Seven months later, on December 11, 2010, a Suffolk County officer and his search dog are
06:30looking for Shannon's body on Gilgo Beach, not far from the last place Shannon was seen.
06:40Just a few feet off Ocean Parkway, they make a gruesome discovery.
06:47It's not Shannon, it's the body of Melissa Bartholomew.
06:54Two days later, three more bodies are found, Maureen Brainerd Barnes, Megan Waterman, and
07:01Amberlynn Costello.
07:07As the months pass, things get even worse.
07:11Seven more bodies are found within a five-mile radius of beach, eleven in total, eight of them
07:17female sex workers.
07:23The last body found, Shannon Gilberts, 19 months after she made that chilling call.
07:31All that was left were skeletal remains.
07:35It's along a stretch of land, which is sort of an enlarged cemetery for sex workers.
07:41Cops say Shannon may have drowned, and possibly been under the influence of something, but
07:47her family believes she was murdered.
07:53Everything Shannon did that night was perfectly rational, and look at the consequence.
07:57What happened to her is exactly what she predicted was about to happen to her.
08:02Here's the enraging thing.
08:04During the 13 years the case went nowhere, other women may have been murdered, because
08:09serial killers typically have uncontainable, murderous tendencies.
08:13Some of these people do stop for periods of time, but the chance that he went dormant for
08:19that long a period of time, 13 years, is a very low probability.
08:25It boggles my mind.
08:26I hope to God that their incompetence didn't cause someone else to lose their life, because
08:32that would be a horrible, horrible thing for them to live with, to anybody to live with,
08:37because this really clearly should have been solved right away.
08:41Coming up.
08:43They are able to seamlessly flip a switch, go from husband and father to sadistic killer,
08:50and they can do it without any sort of shame.
08:55My father actually called me that morning and said, hey, you know that guy, the serial
08:59killer that we used to joke about?
09:01And I said, yeah, he goes, he's actually a serial killer.
09:20Rex, did you do it?
09:22Rex Heuerman was arrested in July at his architecture office in Manhattan.
09:27He has pled not guilty to multiple murder charges.
09:31But if he is the serial killer, he was living an insane double life in plain sight for a long,
09:40long time.
09:41Rex.
09:41Hello.
09:42How are you doing?
09:43Good to see you.
09:44Likewise.
09:44I hope you don't mind.
09:45I brought my assistant with me.
09:46Norman.
09:47Hello, Norman.
09:48Norman.
09:48In this 2022 interview, Rex seems normal.
09:52Hard to believe this man could be a ruthless killer.
09:56What do you think is the most important qualities a person in your position dealing with the DOB
10:05must have?
10:06Patience.
10:08Why is this job taught you about yourself?
10:15I think it's taught me more about how to understand people.
10:23On many levels, Heuerman seemed like a regular guy, a college graduate married to his second
10:29wife, Asa Ellorup, for 27 years.
10:32He raised two kids, a daughter and a stepson, both adults now.
10:37That was one life.
10:40But cops say his other life was steeped in evil.
10:46He's definitely somebody that should not be out in the public and being involved with
10:51other human beings.
10:51It is a Jekyll and Hyde.
10:53And I think we have enough information now, sadly, tragically, about serial killers that
11:01have done exactly what we're describing here, living parallel lives.
11:06It's selfie time.
11:07Selfie time.
11:11You're fast.
11:13Ready?
11:14One, two, three.
11:16Ah!
11:20What these individuals are able to do, they are able to seamlessly flip a switch and go
11:27from family man, go from husband and father to sadistic killer.
11:32And they can do it without any sort of shame, guilt, angst, no sense of right and wrong.
11:43So sadistic, he allegedly called Melissa Bartholomew's sister to taunt her from Melissa's phone.
11:52When she was missing for a few days and then the phone rang and it said Melissa, like, from
11:58her phone.
11:59And Amanda, the sister, said, Melissa, where have you been?
12:02We've been looking for you.
12:03And then she heard that voice of the killer.
12:07When you see an offender, reach out to family members that are already suffering and call
12:13them over and over and over to increase their suffering, you have someone who enjoys watching
12:19people suffer and that's exactly what we have here.
12:43When Heuermann was arrested, some of his neighbors weren't all that surprised.
12:48My father actually called me that morning and said, hey, you know that guy, uh, the serial
12:52killer that we used to joke about?
12:54And I said, yeah, he goes, he's actually a serial killer.
12:59People who knew Heuermann for years, since childhood, say he was always an outcast.
13:05He was very strange, he was very smart, but, um, he didn't have many friends and he was very
13:12much to himself.
13:13He was alone.
13:13Rex was bullied and teased for the way he appeared.
13:18If you dig deep enough, you'll find somewhere, somewhere in the background, something triggered
13:25them, some anger, some unresolved conflict that they're acting out against these victims.
13:31Over the years, Rex Heuermann showed aggression in different ways.
13:36He filed multiple lawsuits claiming he'd been hit by cars.
13:40And here's what's so puzzling.
13:42If he is the serial killer, why would he draw that kind of attention to himself?
13:48The fact that Rex Heuermann may have been involved in a number of legal cases where he
13:53was suing folks, that would indicate someone who is, is so narcissistic, things have to go
13:59his way and wanting control and domination of others.
14:03They look at it from only their point of view and they're so arrogant, they think I'm above
14:08the law.
14:09Nobody's going to look at me.
14:10Nobody's going to catch me.
14:12I'm a respected architect.
14:13I know what I'm doing.
14:15People think I'm a big deal here.
14:18They'll never suspect me.
14:19And sadly, in many cases, that turns out to be right.
14:25In March of 2022, authorities finally zeroed in on Heuermann and the walls started to close
14:32in.
14:33We were able to get his internet searches.
14:34He was making inquiry with regard to the Gilgo investigation over 200 times.
14:40He was also doing a lot of searches with regard to a lot of torture porn and other rather
14:45disturbing searches.
14:47Heuermann was also Googling family members of the victims, including a child.
14:52Cell phone records put Heuermann in proximity to all four victims.
14:57Authorities used DNA from a discarded pizza crust to match Heuermann to hair found on one
15:04of the victims.
15:04We looked at travel records and we were able to establish that the wife and the children
15:10were out of the state during the time of the commission of those crimes.
15:16After his arrest on July 13th, cops spent 12 days searching Heuermann's home.
15:27And here's a chilling detail.
15:34Heuermann also owns properties in Las Vegas and South Carolina.
15:37Investigators want to know in the 13 years the case went unsolved, did the accused Gilgo's
15:43serial killer murder way beyond the confines of his hometown.
15:47Not only are we worried about other lives being lost, not only here in Suffolk County,
15:51but we're looking at South Carolina, we're looking at Las Vegas, we're looking at anywhere
15:55Rex Heuermann might have been.
15:57You can't assume in a situation like this that you have found all these victims.
16:00This person traveled out of state, he had places in other locales.
16:05For anyone to assume that this person killed all these people and then stopped in 2010,
16:09I don't believe that.
16:11There was critical evidence sitting right in Rex Heuermann's driveway.
16:16Evidence that went unnoticed by cops for more than a decade.
16:20Evidence that could have put him in cuffs and spared other women their lives.
16:24And one of the reasons cops dropped the ball is mind-blowing.
16:31Coming up, a major piece of evidence ignored.
16:35It wasn't the amazing Kreskin came in and figured it out, it was on paper for 13 years.
16:40You know, it's sickening.
16:42Plus, the top cop who may have derailed the investigation for very personal reasons.
16:48He was morally, sexually corrupt, he was a pervert.
17:11Rex Heuermann lived his life, walked the streets, and possibly continued his alleged murderous
17:19rampage undetected for 13 long years.
17:24A lot of people say it didn't have to be that way.
17:27From the pieces I put together, you know, this is, this is Investigations 101.
17:34Turns out, a major clue was missed early on.
17:38A clue that eventually cracked the case.
17:40And it was either ignored, or deliberately pushed aside for all those years.
17:46It came from a man named Dave Schaller.
17:51This guy just screamed freak, you know what I mean?
17:55Like, everything about it.
17:57Schaller was roommates with one of the Gilgo Four victims, Amber Costello.
18:02A few weeks before Amber vanished, Schaller had a violent encounter with a man who had hired
18:08Amber for a lap dance in their home.
18:10A man, he says, was Rex Heuermann.
18:17I was out, she calls me, and it was like, the guy, you know, didn't want to take no for
18:22an answer, and started grab assing on her, you know, and was basically, you know, trying
18:27to pull her down to, you know, to, to, to rape her.
18:30So, came flying back to the house, busted through the door, and there's a giant in my living
18:35room.
18:36Basically, it was like Frankenstein.
18:38I just was emotionless, just, you know, blank.
18:42So I was like, you know, what the are you doing here?
18:45I was like, you know, you gotta go.
18:47And he's like, you know, he just shook his head, and he's like, nope.
18:51And I was like, well, you're gonna go one way or another.
18:54So I pushed him, he pushed me back, I punched him in the face, went out the front door, knocked
19:00him down the stoop, kicked him in the chest a couple times, you know, he got up, dropped
19:05a couple more punches on him, he hit me, and finally, I picked up a rake that I had there,
19:10and I was gonna smash him in the face with the rake, he got in his car, and bounced.
19:14And just literally, no emotion, no nothing.
19:20As he was leaving, he was turning his head, just like, you know, like, watching the whole
19:23time.
19:25Schaller says, a month later, Amber saw Heuermann again, because she needed cash, needed it badly.
19:32And he offered her two grand.
19:35It was the last time she was seen alive.
19:38The second she went missing, the first person that came to my head was that dude.
19:48Schaller told police about the incident in chilling detail, a few days after they found
19:53Amber's body, then two more times right after that, he described the exact type of truck the
20:00man was driving, a dark green or black Chevy Avalanche, yet cops never followed up.
20:06All they had to do was run avalanches in Massapeca, and the case is over, you know?
20:13They had someone telling them that it was a Chevy Avalanche, that it was a six-foot-five
20:18guy who looked like an ogre, and if you went on Google Maps and went up and down the street,
20:22you saw the car parked in the street.
20:25Right in front of the Heuermann's home, sometimes parked on the street, sometimes right in his driveway.
20:32This could easily have led to an arrest years ago, before other victims may have been murdered.
20:54There weren't a lot of Chevy Avalanches all over the place, certainly not Massapequa.
21:00That, to me, would seem like an aha moment when you saw it. It's like a,
21:04we almost got you. This one particular tip or lead should have gone to the very top of the pile,
21:10in my opinion.
21:12Yet cops waited years before following up on that critical piece of evidence.
21:17The initial investigation in 2010 were not given the information that, in fact, there was a
21:24Chevy Avalanche involved with a six-foot-five guy who is described as an ogre. How do you keep that
21:30information from a chief or an inspector who's overseeing these cases?
21:39Once you have information on the make and model of a vehicle, within a couple of business days,
21:45DMV can get back to you with the information on that vehicle, which would include the make,
21:50the model, the color, the plate, the address, and the registered owner. Then the next step would be
21:56to run the license information of that registered owner, and you would have height included on that
22:03description, an eye color as well. Someone who's 6'5", 6'6", 270 pounds is going to stick out.
22:10Finally, last year, investigators did just that, and the Avalanche, along with cell phone and DNA
22:17evidence, gave authorities the ammo to make an arrest.
22:26Bingo. Second, that's the face I've had in my head for 13 years. It's the only way to put it.
22:31100%
22:31that's him, you know? I'd love to see him just laugh in his face, be like, you know, remember me?
22:37I'm the guy you forgot to clean up, you know what I mean? The fact that those clues were not
22:42pursued back then is not only inexcusable, it's something that's unimaginable in the law enforcement
22:48community. We cannot have this happen again. I have to apologize from a law enforcement
22:53perspective that it did take this long for us to bring him into custody. So who's to blame? A lot
22:59of people are pointing the finger at this man, James Burke. He was appointed Suffolk County Police
23:05Chief back in 2012, and his tenure was fraught with scandal. I can't stress to you enough on the
23:13unbelievable corruption that went on in this police department over the past decade. Burke went to
23:19prison in 2016 over charges related to beating up a man who stole porn and sex toys from him.
23:28Chief, do you have anything else to say? Are you still denying the accusations?
23:32And the Suffolk County D.A. at the time, Tom Spoda, went to prison for obstructing the investigation
23:39into Chief Burke. But there's more. Burke allegedly had sex with prostitutes himself. A lot. His critics
23:49say the last thing Burke wanted was to put the spotlight on sex workers found dead in his jurisdiction.
23:55I knew him, and he was not fond of women and clearly has a propensity to patronize prostitutes.
24:03He was morally, sexually corrupt. He was a pervert. And he was the one running the show.
24:09Burke had no problem taking his sex worker girlfriends, plural, to police affairs, functions.
24:16And they would strut around and nobody noticed. That's what's wrong here.
24:21I think that between Burke and that other idiot, the other D.A. that got brought up on charges,
24:27I think that they sacked the case because a lot would have tied back to them.
24:34In fact, Burke seemed to take deliberate moves to slow down the investigation,
24:40including kicking the FBI and other agencies off the case. He wanted full control.
24:46I think the reason he didn t want the FBI involved is because he didn t want them in his
24:52house,
24:53interacting with all the guys in his department, where one or more of them might say, you know,
24:57this guy has done similar things. It is a sad day for all law enforcement when something like this happens.
25:03The commissioner of police, with Burke's urging, shut down the investigation in January of 2011,
25:13because he said that cadaver dogs, plural, didn t like to work in the wintertime. So I asked the question,
25:20why are they lifeguards? Do they only work in the summer? That was an absurd thing for the police to
25:24do.
25:25And they kept the investigation closed for three months, giving plenty of time for evidence to disappear and the like.
25:35We are field producers with TMZ.
25:37TMZ tried to reach Burke multiple times, even knocked on the door of his home, but we got no response.
25:45If they find a bunch of more girls, that s going to be the tell of how big of a
25:51the Suffolk County Police Department had. Because if there s a string of bodies still,
25:56which I m sure there is because, you know, this guy was able to follow along this whole bungled
26:01case the entire time. I ve always thought for so many years that he was out there and just lurking.
26:08And it just really upsets me that the police let this go on for so long,
26:12and he could have been hurting other people.
26:14The man's avalanche has become symbolic of the missteps, corruption, and incompetence that may have allowed a serial killer to
26:24kill again.
26:27Coming up, the current stylist and former escort who may have dodged a date with death.
26:33I told people for years that I had dinner with the Gilgo Beach killer, and I want to testify against
26:40him.
26:40I want people to know he was out hunting, even after those women were found.
26:45I want them to know he was out hunting.
27:13I want them to know him, and I make thatство of the police.
27:13I know what a long line is that he's been a little bit.
27:14I want them to be a hero of the police.
27:14just sweetest girl and you know these girls are they're human beings they're they're people so
27:24there was a real uh bias affecting the intensity and the quality of the investigation because
27:33these girls were considered disposable as sex workers because of that attitude i think the
27:39idea was well you know we'll get to it someday the fact most of the victims found dead around
27:46gilgo beach were sex workers may have allowed a serial killer to roam free for years and that
27:53may have been part of rex huerman's plan all along as sad as it may be they're not going to
28:00draw as
28:01much attention from law enforcement as other occupations might so he chooses a safe category
28:07of victim in terms of how much focus they're going to get when other women go missing especially
28:13white women in this country they are often looked at first you know they are blasted all over the news
28:18when you are in an oppressed group i feel like they are going to get pushed down more than if
28:27they were just that typical blonde hair blue eyes lawyer teacher nurse you know mother people just
28:36don't really look at them as just regular humans like the rest of us
28:43it doesn't really matter what they're doing for their their lifestyle they're still humans
28:53there was a lack of interest because of who they were who the victims were i hope not because that's
29:00the
29:01worst kind of discrimination there is for a dead body and the families of that victim when you look
29:08at sex workers in the history of across the united states there is a stigma that people don't care
29:14about them that they're throwaways but you know what no one grew up no one was born saying that they
29:19wanted to be a sex worker and i think any person any person any sex worker that has had a
29:25crime committed
29:26against them or even a murder that person needs to be brought to justice because they are human beings
29:32just like the rest of us current suffolk county officials insist they treat all victims the same
29:37maybe so but back in 2011 the police commissioner made it a point to reassure the public the community
29:44was safe since the killer was only targeting sex workers from the four remains that were found and
29:50identified the business that they were in okay indicated that whoever was targeting these
29:57individuals was doing it because of their business we don't have somebody running around suffolk county
30:03with blood dripping from a knife and i didn't want the public to think that
30:07you know suffolk county was crime written which it's not very safe county so huerman may have gotten
30:13the memo way back then police seem disinterested in the victims which may explain why his alleged
30:19penchant for prostitutes was apparently alive and well as late as 2022 when he was put under surveillance
30:27my first impression was that he was a massive man current stylist and former escort nikki brass
30:35says huerman contacted her for sex in 2015 four years after the 11th body was found but she had
30:44serious misgivings right from the get-go at a restaurant just 45 miles from gilgo beach
30:52it wasn't until he looked at me and he said are you a true crime fan and at that point
30:59i got a little
30:59excited because i am and after that that's when he said to me well have you heard of the gilgo
31:05beach killings
31:14i was like of course i'm from long island we all have it was just when he started to talk
31:20about it
31:20that things took a change and i realized there was a problem it was because he sat up straighter
31:27you know he had to smirk on his face and it seemed more like somebody who wanted to
31:33brag and relive the crimes they were committing when nikki sensed she was in danger she stepped away
31:40and called a friend to come meet her in the parking lot just in case i have never in my
31:46life
31:46at that time when i was doing those things felt scared felt fear or felt the need to get away
31:54so towards the end of the date he had said are you going to come back with me i said
31:58it was really
31:59nice meeting you thank you for dinner but i'm gonna have to say no
32:07i have a friend waiting for me in the parking lot just to make sure i get home safely you
32:12could tell
32:13he seemed like very visually agitated and like angry that i didn't want to go with him
32:23we didn't hug he was like almost hovering over me with his size and he you could tell again he
32:30was mad
32:31he did all this work and i didn't go with him as they went their separate ways it was clear
32:37to nikki
32:39she had just escaped a brush with death i 100 thought rex was the gilgo beach killer
32:47i told people for years many people for years i said i had dinner with the gilgo beach killer and
32:54i know it
32:56nikki didn't tell police about what happened because at the time she was on probation for
33:01drug possession but she has no doubt the man she met that night was rex huerman a man who police
33:08could have caught four years earlier had they jumped on obvious clues i want to testify against him
33:16i want people to know he was out hunting even after those women were found
33:24and i want people to understand that like these women mattered and they they had a chance of a better
33:31life they had a chance to become mothers and wives and do things with their lives and they had that
33:38taken away from them because he's because he's a monster the looming question were there other women
33:46not as lucky as nikki brass
33:51coming up i think that there is an excellent chance that he is responsible for additional murders
33:58and that's because serial killers tend to keep on killing oftentimes this is kind of an addictive aspect
34:05to their personality and it starts to build in them and build in them and build in them where they
34:11just
34:11have to act on that impulse
34:34i believe that the individual who committed the uh the original gilgo for murders and assuming that rex
34:43huerman is that person i think that there is an excellent chance that he is responsible for
34:50additional murders he may well have a burial ground that has yet to be discovered
34:58officials are looking for other possible victims in places rex huerman frequented
35:04including las vegas where he owns the timeshare it's important for homicide detectives
35:10uh to conduct their investigation scour their cold cases to see if there is any connection between
35:17these unsolved murders and the suspect
35:24and they're searching in chester south carolina where he also owns property it could very well be
35:31a connection alia bell hall was just 18 when she left her uncle's house in rock hill south carolina back
35:39in 2014 never to be seen again when her aunt heard about huerman's arrest she wondered if he knew what
35:48happened to her niece
35:52she decided to leave to go home it was walking distance and um that was the last that anyone saw
35:59her
35:59was that day chester's about 15 minutes from rock hill and i took some time to process it and i'm
36:06like okay
36:06well this could be related and had they took action like they should have back then
36:14maybe my niece wouldn't be missing now
36:20police in south carolina say they found no connection between alia's disappearance and rex huerman
36:27at least so far but the investigation is ongoing
36:32the stark reality serial killers don't limit themselves to a particular zip code they kill when
36:39there is an opportunity and even if they stop for a while the urge is still there they do stop
36:48at
36:49times they may stop at times for years and then start back up and that's very confounding uh to law
36:55enforcement some have stopped and you know never been found out but oftentimes this is kind of an
37:03addictive aspect uh to their personality and it starts to build in them and build in them and build in
37:11them where they just have to act on that impulse
37:18back in massapequa the lives of huerman's wife and kids have been turned upside down the search of their
37:25home left it in shambles asa who's being treated for breast and skin cancer has filed for divorce
37:33in order to piece back what's been crumbled into a million pieces is going to take a very long time
37:42through his attorney rex huerman has proclaimed his innocence
37:46his lawyer calls the case circumstantial adding his client has been traumatized by the accusations
37:56he's a man who's never been arrested before he's maintained his innocence from the inception of this
38:01case i doubt that any one of you for a moment have even contemplated the possibility that they have
38:06the wrong guy so what we're going to do is we're going to defend this case in a courtroom prosecutors
38:11say they have a trove of evidence to put huerman away for life but the wheels of justice grind slowly
38:18a trial may be at least a year away nevertheless family members are now hopeful at least this man can't
38:26hurt anybody else and he would have that hole will be there but it will help you know close the
38:34door
38:34and this man will never walk the streets again coming up you have so many questions
38:41how did you pick her how did you get her you know did my sister cry did she bet did
38:48she say please please
38:49like i have kids
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39:37we're here to celebrate the lives of these women also to pay respects to them
39:47they were all beautiful women they weren't just prostitutes as everybody is saying
39:56they were daughters sisters cousins nieces mothers a few months after the bodies of the gilgo four were
40:05found back in 2010 family members held a vigil to honor their lost loved ones
40:14they had no idea back then it would take more than a decade to track down a suspect
40:20and put him behind bars
40:25before we hung up i always said i love you be careful i said you know if you get in
40:29trouble it's not
40:30like you're right around the block i said it's gonna take me seven hours to get to you
40:36she loved her daughter so much she was just very kind hearted you know she made mistakes
40:43who doesn't she didn't deserve this nobody deserves this
40:50she was a sweetheart you know the whole time that we knew her she always you know bent over backwards
40:54to
40:54you know whatever it was she was a good kid you know she was a little itty bitty teeny tiny
41:02girl but
41:03she had the biggest heart and the most nurturing nature the most mothering nature she tried to take care of
41:14everybody and every little thing
41:21you have so many questions why how you know why my sister how you do why did you pick her
41:29how did you pick her how did you get her you know did my sister cry and did she back
41:36you know
41:37did she say please please like kids like you know there'll be all those answers that i'm pretty sure
41:45the killer won't answer
41:55justice delayed is often justice denied and if that maxim is true then there may never be true
42:02justice for families of the gilgo four and possibly many other families as well
42:10but there may be a measure of peace if rex huerman is the serial killer a monster may finally be
42:18contained his long reign of terror over and after so many years too many horrifying years there could once
42:29again be tranquility on gilgo beach
42:33so
43:00so
43:06so
43:13you
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