Beyond The Horizon
ICYMI: Rex Heuermann And The 20/20 Special
Ever since the arrest of Rex Heuermann, we have been finding out more and more about the man that the authorities say is the Long Island serial killer. Heuermann ,an unassuming architect from Long Island was nabbed after an extensive operation that included the collection of pizza crust and hours of surveillance which eventually led to the bombshell arrest.
In this episode, we take a look at the 20/20 special that aired on Friday September 8th, and some of the new revelations that were revealed in it.
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'The Long Island Serial Killer': How cell phones and a pizza box led to a suspect in 3 cases - ABC News (go.com)
- Duration:
- 19m
- Broadcast on:
- 08 Jul 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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It's been about two months now since Rex Uerman was arrested and charged in the murder of three of the four Gilgo Beach murder victims. And since that time, we've learned a lot more about how the authorities were able to track down Rex Uerman and bring him into custody. And in today's episode, we're going to talk a little bit more about how they were able to find Rex Uerman and what evidence led them there. Today's article is from ABC News and The Headline, the Long Island serial killer. How cell phones and a pizza box led to a suspect in three cases. This article was authored by Samantha Londerer and Christina Corbin. Sarah Carnes was sitting in her Times Square hotel room when she said she received a phone call from a block number. She said the voice on the other line, an unknown male caller, who was calm and matter of fact, revealed personal details about her friend Maureen Brainerd Barnes, who vanished days earlier in July 2007 while working as an escort in New York City. "I just saw her," Carnes recalls the man saying, "she's at a whorehouse in Queens." "Well, we know that Rex Uerman has called family members of his victims before, so that certainly tracks." Exactly 16 years after the chilling phone call, Carnes said she believes that mystery voice was that of Rex Uerman, a married father of two, and New York architect, who is charged in the murders of three other women. He is the prime suspect in the death of 25-year-old Brainerd Barnes, according to the investigators. Huerman has pleaded not guilty to all charges. That was him, Carnes said of the caller in an exclusive 2020 interview following Huerman's arrest on July 13. Huerman 59 is charged in the killings of Melissa Bartholomew, Megan Waterman, and Amberlyn Costello, who were working as escorts on Craigslist when they disappeared. And as we all know, all of these women that we know about anyway, were also doing the same thing, and when you're trying to build a profile or a pattern, those are the sorts of things that you look for. And when you look at all of these missing women, there are so many similarities that they share that it's very, very difficult for me anyway to look at anyone besides Rex Huerman. At least until we know about the forensic testing, once all the DNA comes back and we can rule them out, that's one thing. But as of now, there's nobody else even on the radar when it comes to these murders. The badly decomposed remains of those women, as well as those of Brainerd Barnes, was found in 2010 near Gilgo Beach on New York's Long Island in what police described as the work of a serial killer, well, you don't have to be, you know, and Burgess to figure out that this was a serial killer. And imagine the audacity of James Burke and his investigators throughout this whole entire thing at the beginning, to just treat this like it didn't matter, sweep it under the rug, don't chase down any leads, and because of their ineptitude, how many other women were hurt? That's a question that's going to have to be asked at some point. Carnes, who reported the phone call to police at the time, said she made the connection after hearing Huerman's voice in a now viral interview on YouTube about his work as an architect. "I remember rewinding it and playing it over and over again," Carn said, "and I'm sure that's a voice that gets burned into your mind. Somebody calls you and says that about your missing friend? Pretty sure that's a voice that you will never forget." The investigation into the Long Island serial killer, focused on cell phones, used from the beginning, according to investigators. The victims, known as the Gilgo 4, posted advertisements on Craigslist, and then used their own cell phones to connect with clients. And in this day and age, if you're going to use your cell phone and think you're going to get away with crimes, breaking news, you're not. They're going to hit you with all kinds of warrants, you're going to get blasted with the geo-fence warrant, probably, and Lord knows what else. So all of these people who think they're smooth, who think that if they turn their cell phone off, I'm looking at you, Brian Coburger, that you're going to get away with it? Well, breaking news, you're not. The police claim the killer, meanwhile, used separate burner phones to contact each victim, and in doing so, gave them their first clue. So when he was riding around with the burner phone in his pocket, he was also riding around with the phones of his victims. This is according to the police report and the bell warrant that came out previously. And we now know that him driving around with those cell phones and those cell phones pinging off of those towers was a vital building block in this investigation. Over all of that digital information is used as foundation. So they use it as a foundation to build their case on. And when they're talking about Huerman here, well, it's not only digital, they also found the DNA at the scene. So when you tie all of that together and you look at the totality of the evidence, it is all bad for Rex Huerman. And mark my words, his team and him, they're going to attack the process, not the evidence that's been compiled. He had cell side hits in two areas in Massapeka Park and also in Midtown Manhattan, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison told ABC News. The authorities claim the killer also use the cell phone of one of his victims, Melissa Bartholomew, to make a series of taunting calls to her family in Buffalo, New York in the summer of 2009. Those calls allegedly ping from towers near New York's Penn Station and other areas of Manhattan and with that location being so busy, it was very hard for them to pinpoint who was making these phone calls. But after a while with all of the evidence that they have compiled over the years, they were able to build this profile and that profile led them directly to Rex Huerman. But if he didn't have those burner phones on him and he wasn't traveling around with those burner phones, it would have been a lot more difficult for the authorities to pin this on him. On watching your sister rot, the killer said to Bartholomew's younger sister, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the phone calls. Knowing about those phone calls and if Rex Huerman's the man they're saying that he is, you could take this fool up to the Empire State Building and shove his fat ass off for all I care. Because anybody who's that demented doesn't deserve to share any air with the rest of us and that even includes being in prison. Why should the taxpayers be on the hook for somebody like Rex Huerman if he is convicted instead of him sitting around forever in a jail cell? On the dime of the New York State taxpayer, how about we get a helicopter and just find a volcano and if we're really feeling industrious, we could have a Galain Maxwell drive that helicopter and crash that bitch right into the volcano and get a two for one. It wasn't until 2021 that investigators, including the FBI, said they were able to use advanced phone analytics to hone in on an area of Massapeka Park, some 17 miles from Gilgo Beach where they believe the killer likely lived. There was a little bit of what we called a box where our potential suspect was making these phone calls to our sex workers, Harrison said. The next breakthrough in the case came in the form of an old clue that police revisited in March of 2022. A witness reported seeing a dark green Chevy avalanche parked outside of the home of Amber Lynn Costello in Babylon, New York the day before she disappeared in September of 2010. But the problem was James Burke and the rest of the crooked cops in Suffolk County at the time pushed all of this under the rug. They didn't care. All they cared about was James Burke getting out from underneath the FBI investigation that he found himself under. And in their mind, these women were nothing more than just prostitutes, so who cares about an investigation. The witness told police that Costello met with a client that same day, someone the witness described as a white male, approximately 6'4" to 6'6" in height and in his mid 40's with dark bushy hair and big oval style 1970's tie-by glasses, according to court documents in the case, seems like that fits Urimin, huh? Almost to a T. And then you go back to the avalanche that they found and add that up with all of the other circumstantial evidence and what you have here, folks, is a tight-ass case. And wrecks Urimin and his legal team, they understand that. Again, pay very close attention to who attacks the process, and almost to a person. The people that opt for that strategy are people that don't have any evidence of their own innocence. And before anybody even starts with the whole, "Oh, you're innocent until proven guilty," come on, who believes that? You better have some evidence to back up what you have to say. You can't just show up and be like, "Well, but it wasn't me, I'm heading home." Okay, where are your phone records? Who are you with? Can they corroborate your story? So when I say evidence, that's what I'm talking about. Providing basic evidence about the things that you say you were doing. You have to be able to back that up. So that's what I mean when I say you better have some evidence as a defendant. Last year, investigators were able to determine that Urimin who lived in Massapeka Park and fit that physical description on the Chevy Avalanche in 2010. We were able to capture, we were able to seize that Chevy Avalanche, pursuant to a search warrant, and we're certainly going to analyze that, Suffolk County District Attorney, Ray Tierney said at a press conference the afternoon after Urimin's arrest. Once authorities established Urimin as a suspect, they conducted surveillance on his daily life, issuing 300 subpoenas and search warrants to collect potential evidence. In January 2023, an undercover team watched from security cameras as Urimin allegedly tossed a pizza box into a trash can outside of a midtown Manhattan office. The team retrieved the box, which contained a partial piece of pizza crust that was later tested for DNA. It proved to be a 99.96 match to the hair found on one of the victims at Gilgo Beach according to authorities. Michael Brown, Urimin's attorney, scoffed at reporters who asked about the alleged physical evidence following Urimin's court appearance on July 14th in Riverhead, New York. I didn't see any evidence, did you, Brown said, claiming the government's case against his client, is very circumstantial. This guy is out to lunch, circumstantial, huh? Okay, I guess. Can you explain the hairs on the victims? Can you explain the other circumstantial evidence that all ties up in the totality to look like your client is guilty? Can you explain any of that, please? One of that, circumstantial. 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