00:00Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuerman has admitted that he strangled and dismembered
00:04eight young women and then dumped their remains along desolate stretches of coastline on Long
00:09Island. A pretty wild list of crimes to cop to, even more so considering he'd only been charged
00:14with seven of them. The former architect's guilty plea included an eighth murder that had not
00:18previously been linked to him. Prosecutors went down the list of victims, asking Heuerman how
00:23each one was killed, and he repeatedly answered, quote, strangulation. Prosecutors then announced
00:29that the serial killer would serve three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
00:33Now, this plea deal also includes Heuerman working with the FBI to help them figure out what makes
00:39his sick mind tick, hopefully helping investigators solve similar crimes. Now, the mystery of the
00:45Gilgo Beach killer began way back in 1993, and he managed to evade capture for 30 years until his
00:51arrest in 2023. The details of the murders are grisly. Heuerman, who is an absolute beast of a
00:57man, six foot four, roughly 240 pounds, would make dates with these women, often using a burner phone.
01:03And it was on these dates that he would kill them in the basement of his own home, which he
01:07shared
01:08with his wife and children. Now, they claimed they had no idea what dad was doing in his spare time
01:12and
01:12were out of town during the timeline of the slayings. Now, despite his horrific acts, his family was in
01:18court to support him as he, get this, smirked before the judge. He'll formally be sentenced on June 17th.
01:25Is the Strait of Hormuz open or not? A simple question, but the answer is far more complex.
01:32Hours after the critical waterway was said to be reopened as part of the U.S.-Iran ceasefire,
01:37the Islamic Republic seems to have shut it all down again. They blamed Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
01:43President Trump says that was never part of the ceasefire deal. Iran, it seems, says otherwise.
01:48The Iranian embassy in Mumbai, India posted to X, quote,
01:52due to Israeli strikes in Lebanon, oil tankers will not be permitted to pass through the Strait
01:57of Hormuz. Pretty straightforward. President Trump has been very vocal about the need for
02:01the Strait to be opened in order for the U.S. to halt its bombing campaigns in Iran.
02:05I asked The Post's Washington reporter Caitlin Dornbos about the role the Strait is playing in
02:10these peace negotiations late yesterday evening. So the U.S. has stopped bombing Iran in exchange for
02:18Iran not attacking ships that pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Problem is there's not a lot of
02:25ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz because they're afraid of Iran attacking them. Iran has been
02:30requiring countries to ask permission first before they go through. The White House today said that's
02:36not what they want. They intended for Iran to be opening the Strait for any vessel to come through
02:43free without paying a toll. That is the intention of this ceasefire agreement. And now we're just
02:49kind of waiting on Iran to see whether or not they actually hold up their end of the bargain.
02:54While the debate about the Strait being open or not continued, there were also reports of that
02:59Iranian toll that Caitlin just mentioned. I asked her about that as well.
03:02Iran has said that they would like to see a toll be placed on the Strait of Hormuz. That's because
03:09they see the Strait of Hormuz being its own sovereign territory. But that's not what international law
03:14says. International law holds that it's an international waterway free for anyone to go
03:19and transit through. And so the fact that they would want to put a toll on that waterway,
03:27reportedly as high as $2 million per shift. I mean, that's a big problem. And it would shake up
03:33a big, it would largely shake up global trade and global economic security, especially for the
03:41countries that really rely on that Strait for their oil. The president yesterday mentioned that he might
03:47be interested in profit sharing with a potential toll. But the White House seemed to walk that back
03:53quite a bit saying that they support free and open trade. I think that the president saying that kind
03:58of tends to go towards him earlier, feeling that the world kind of owes the United States something
04:06for the United States' role in securing that Strait.
04:09An illegal Haitian immigrant who was released into the United States during the Biden administration
04:14allegedly bludgeoned a Florida mom to death at a gas station in broad daylight. 40-year-old
04:19Robert Joachin is accused of striking the 51-year-old victim multiple times using a mallet
04:25and leaving her to die in the parking lot of a Fort Myers Chevron station.
04:28Court documents say the victim was found by first responders outside the station's convenience store
04:33in a pool of blood. Joachin had been seen outside the store holding that mallet in one hand and a
04:38knife in the other. He began by striking the windshield of a black SUV before turning his attention to the
04:42victim who had stepped out of a nearby store. Now her identity hasn't been made public, but she was
04:47reportedly a store clerk at the gas station. Now Joachin was granted temporary protected status by
04:52the Department of Homeland Security in 2022, but current DHS officials said he would now be deported
04:58regardless of the outcome of the case. For more on these stories and everything else you could
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