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foreign it is a case that has haunted the public for more than 13 years that many feared
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that the Gilgo Beach murders may never be solved [Music] sir located a body they don't seem to be wrapped in burlap
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which didn't make any sense the crime scene gets expanded I'm cold and chief we found another set
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of remains they find another one and another one we were dealing with a serial killer are they available they're
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vulnerable and very petite this killer has a type right does he want the petite body because he wants to feel more
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empowered and More in control I just want answers and arrest more than a decade in the
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making in a serial killer case that's baffled law enforcement and the public 59-year-old Rex heuerman pled not guilty
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I dropped my phone I couldn't believe it so just who is Rex humerman an architect
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who ran a company called RH consultants and Associates Rex hello how are you doing good to see you when a job that
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should have been routine suddenly becomes not routine yeah I get the phone call Rex heermann is a mystery man Rex
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is capable of presenting himself one way to one person one way to another person
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my first memory of Rex was that he was very big imposing scary angry he was bullied he was bigger than
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everyone else the kids would gang up on him and Rex was very smart too he's a smart person very smart
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he liked to shock people he was interested in power games Rex loved hunting and he loved guns
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going out shooting hunting that was his passion all petite all bound in burlap bags the burlap on the bodies that's
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points right at a hunter it was DNA collected from a pizza slice he tossed in a Manhattan trash can that
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came back as a match with hair found on the victims that's where we obtained you
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know his full profile from from the pizza crust left in the Box in terms of speaking to my client the
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only thing I can tell you that he did say as he was in tears was I didn't do this
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everyone's just trying to put the pieces together I want to know what I missed I
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think we all want to know what we missed [Music] [Music] foreign T far from this quiet stretch of Gilgo
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Beach on Long Island New York investigators uncovered the hidden remains of four young women
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the mystery of who they were and how they got here might have stayed a secret if not for a woman named Shannon Gilbert
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[Music] in the early morning hours of May 1st 2010 23 year old Shannon working as an
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escort call 9-1-1 State Police yeah [Music] the call came from a neighborhood not
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far from Gilgo Beach Shannon starts running knocking on doors she screams and then nothing
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Shannon was gone hello hello [Applause] canine search the area exhaustively for Sean and Gilbert Dominic verone was
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chief of detectives at the Suffolk County Police Department months passed without a sign of the
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missing woman and then in December 2010 near Gilgo Beach a police officer and his canine named Blue found human
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remains everyone assumed it was Shannon Gilbert but it wasn't Shannon stun Searchers
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would go on to discover the remains of four other women the women were identified as Maureen Brainerd Barnes
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Melissa barthelemy Megan Waterman and Amber Costello like Shannon all were in their 20s all were online escorts all
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petite three of the four were wrapped in burlap the kind you can find in hunting
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stores they became known as the Gilgo 4. it's really really hard because I miss her so much
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48 Hours has reported on this case since 2010. over the years we've secured exclusive interviews with the family and
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friends of the Gilgo 4. Missy Cann will never forget the wintry day when she got
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the devastating news the detectives came to my house and just said that Maureen has been positively identified as one of
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the victims on Ocean Parkway her sister Maureen Brainerd Barnes a mother of two was the first to disappear
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on July 9 2007. she was very smart and very creative she liked being a mom she loved being Mom but life is a single mom
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living in Norwich Connecticut was difficult Missy didn't know it but Maureen had turned to escort work and
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that July went to New York City for a weekend to make money [Applause] on her way home she called Missy from
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Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan I could hear the commotions from the train station from the time that she
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called me it was poof she was gone she reported Maureen missing eventually officers would tell Missy that after her
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sister's disappearance someone had used Maureen's cell phone to make a call from
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Long Island wasn't known then but those two locations Long Island and Midtown Manhattan would become important clues
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in the hunt for a serial killer nearly two years to the day that Maureen vanished 24 year old Melissa Bartholomew
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went missing in July of 2009 also from Midtown Manhattan Lynn Bartholomew is Melissa's mother how often do you think
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about Melissa every single minute of the day it just didn't happen to the girls I
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mean it destroyed all of our families Melissa moved from Buffalo to New York City to work as a hairdresser at some
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point she also began working as an escort and then disappeared about a week after she went missing Melissa's then 15
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year old sister Amanda started getting calls from Melissa's phone we agreed not to show Amanda's face
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she answers you know Melissa where have you been and this voice is saying oh this isn't
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Melissa Stephen Cohen was a family's lawyer at the time he was taunting Amanda and he said do you know what I
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did to your sister I killed Melissa and he's going to make a mistake and we're gonna catch him those calls from
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Melissa's own phone may very well have been that mistake when police Trace them the cause placed the person they
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believed to be Melissa's killer in Midtown Manhattan following year Megan Waterman the mother
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of a three-year-old girl disappeared from a hotel on Long Island part of you is like missing
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it's just like something's always off we spoke with Megan's daughter Liliana in 2020. I would do anything to bring
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her back but I can't and it just like frustrates me so bad Megan's family says the 22 year old was a creative but
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troubled young woman who loved fashion and was devoted to her daughter what would you say to your mom if you could
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I would just want to tell her that like I love her I just want her to know like she has a special place in my heart no
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one can ever replace her like the other two women Megan disappeared in the summer on June 6 2010 she was working as
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an escort on Long Island no matter what her job was she was a person and she needs Justice this haunting
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video from a Holiday Inn Express is the last time she was seen alive moments before she went to meet a client cell
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phone records later placed her phone in a Long Island neighborhood called Massapequa Park
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Amber Costello was the last of the Gilgo 4 to disappear she lived here just seven
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and a half miles from Massapequa Park she used to say she was 411 but she wasn't she was like four nine you know I
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mean she was small Amber's friend and former roommate Dave Schaller spoke with us in 2011. she was an amazing person
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she really was he says Amber was addicted to drugs and used sex work to support her habit but as amazing as she
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was was as tormented as she was after Amber disappeared police say Schaller told them about her clients he described
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one of them as looking like an ogre and having a first generation Chevrolet Avalanche
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on the night she went missing Schaller says a client offered Amber fifteen hundred dollars for the night six times
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her hourly rate this guy was so relentless he called several times he was on the phone with her for quite a
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while each time he says the client got Amber an experienced escort to do something she never did leave without
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her purse or cell phone and meet him in his car I walked out the front door without she she gave me a hug she's like
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I love you and she left it was nearly midnight Schaller says that when Amber left this house she
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walked down the street and he never saw her again Schaller told us that he didn't see the
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client's face that night but suspects he had seen him before so this is a guy you might have seen
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yeah this is somebody that I seen I might be the one of the only people who knows who he is
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it would be more than a decade before schaller's description would lead to a break in the case
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and a prime suspect to see a timeline of how the case unfolded go to 48hours.com
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the shocking developments at a murder case gone cold my co-worker called me and she said did you know what happened
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to Rex and I'm like no a husband a father an architect stood before a judge charged as a serial killer she says it's
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Rex I said no way this house was a main focus and they brought out a lot of evidence I just didn't think it was real
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a Long Island community is still a crime scene tonight I even thought to myself it's crazy that there's two Rex humans
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out there Mary shell and Muriel henriquez worked with Rex heuerman and couldn't wrap
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their heads around the news we never thought he would be that kind of person it's shocking in
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July of 2023 nearly 13 years after the Gil go forward were discovered Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney
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Harrison made the announcement authorities believe Rex shuerman is the Long Island serial killer Rick Sherman
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is a demon that walks Among Us a predator that ruined families the man he calls a
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demon is a six foot four architect he's charged with killing Melissa Bartholomew
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Megan Waterman Amber Costello and is the prime suspect in the death of Maureen Brainerd Barnes what is my client told
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me he told me he didn't do this I was living about 20 minutes from Gilgo Beach in Massapequa Park the very same
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town where Megan's phone last connected with the cell tower and you were meant worked here at his architectural firm in
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Midtown Manhattan just blocks from where Maureen disappeared the same area where
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several of the threatening calls to Melissa's little sister were made the cause of death with regard to the three
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victims is homicidal violence a married man huerman lived in this run-down house and has a daughter and
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stepson with his second wife ASA ASA who was born in Iceland would take the children to see her
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family there in the Summers it was during these trips and others police believed that heuermann killed
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the women you never got any kind of hint of another life no Muriel henriquez worked a humor men's company RH
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consultants and Associates and spoke exclusively to 48 Hours she recalled a gift he gave her in the summer of 2007.
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this is a sweater he asked his wife to bring back from a trip to Iceland Muriel who says she was touched at the time by
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huerman's thoughtful gesture now wonders if his wife's absence that summer gave him an opportunity to kill Maureen
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Brainerd Barnes who disappeared on July 9 2007. how do you feel about this sweater now no I'm definitely not gonna
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wear this sweater now still she says she saw nothing alarming about the Rex ureman she saw daily a little bit of a
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nerd in a way he'd like to talk about him self what he knew I mean not a narcissist but a little bit of a you
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know I know everything kind of guy pompous pompous she remembers him running to and from job sites eating
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fast food on the Run Pizza that was the number one thing police say they found nearly 300 guns in
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a basement vault when she heard that police had recovered almost 300 firearms from a vault in human's basement she was
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surprised only by the number she knew him as an avid Hunter going out shooting hunting that was his passion what was it
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about hunting he liked I don't know I guess he liked the idea of having a prize stalking prey stalking prey and
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winning he liked to win and while she says it never occurred to her that you or men could be dangerous
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she does remember a time when his tracking skills unnerved her it was her 40th birthday and she had booked a
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cruise vacation where are you going you know I'm going to be in the middle of the ocean you're not gonna find me in
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the middle of the ocean he said oh yes I can Muriel didn't think much of the comment
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until the second day of her trip there was a white envelope under my door it was a note from him
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the note said I told you I could find you anywhere he had photos from hunting trips
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Mary shell worked with huerman in the summer of 2010. it was the same summer that both Amber Costello and Megan
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Waterman vanished he would talk about you know the meat in particular that bear meat could keep in the freezer for
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months hearing authorities now say that some of the victims were wrapped in a burlap that Hunters often use was
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chilling the burlap really got to me since human's arrest Mary has written about her experience with him she's also
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talked to other former female employees who said they weren't always treated with respect he would have one of them
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clean the toilet if he thought the cleaning person hadn't done a good enough job a woman in the office yes he
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more than once commented on women's bodies if someone perhaps had gained some weight you know that kind of that
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kind of thing John Parisi grew up with your men he says he or meme was bullied as a child I
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remember meeting Rex when I was in first or second grade he was a loner not many friends
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the children were super mean to him made fun of him and teased him but John says he never saw human fight
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back he was big enough that if he got upset and started swinging he would hurt somebody
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but he never did as human got older John points out things didn't get much better it was
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rejected by many girls we all go through that awkward stage growing up and it seemed like that awkward stage
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stayed with him longer than usual no he says many in the community find it hard to believe that heuerman is the
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notorious serial killer living a double life for more than a decade people were saying oh my God I can't
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believe we have a serial killer in our town and we grew up with and we walked amongst the killer another class made of
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fewer men's actor Billy Baldwin took to social media when the news broke tweeting it was mind-boggling Rex hello
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how are you doing the awkward Long Island teenager grew up to be a confident and seemingly successful
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architect Antoine Amira met and interviewed him in 2022 Born and Raised on Long Island okay been working in
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Manhattan since 1987. there's nothing in my interview that made me think that this person in front
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of me is a dangerous person Antoine is a hotel food and beverage manager in New York who loves real
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estate he has a YouTube Interview show where he hand picks guests whom he thinks are interesting and accomplished
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um an architect I'm an architectural consultant I'm a troubleshooter Antoine says humor meant was well known for his
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skill at helping companies and individuals get building permits when a job that should have been routine
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suddenly becomes not routine yeah I get the phone call gotcha correct what radiates stood out for me was it was
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very very very smart and known says Antoine for his ability to find loopholes in the rules
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he was pleased when he was doing it that he could that he that he could outweet the system
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that's it folks that was Rex but Antoine says he remembers it was hard to get humor men to crack a smile it's selfie
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time selfie time not even during the signature sunglasses selfies he takes with every guest two three
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Can you spot him that ish [Music] if police are right Rex yerman was able to hide a life as a serial killer
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and if he did his habit of eating pizza on the go would turn out to be his undoing
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[Applause] for more than a decade after the discovery of the Gilgo 4. Rex heuerman's name never appeared on a
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suspect list until a new task force was formed with Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison and Suffolk
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County D.A Ray Tierney in February of 2022 we formed the task force and then a mere six weeks later
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Rex yerman was identified for the first time a suspect in six weeks so how did they
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do it it turns out that buried in the original case files were a number of critical clues that the new task force
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was finally able to connect remember Amber's roommate Dave Schaller she's like I love you you know she gave me a
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hug and she left he had told police about one of Amber's clients and his vehicle
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large built man and that he was driving this this first generation Chevy Avalanche a first generation Chevy
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Avalanche with a description of an ogre-like man and the make and model of his truck police took a closer look at
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Amber's phone records from 2010. shower had told them that before Amber disappeared there was one particular
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client calling incessantly he called several times he was on the phone with her for quite a while each time police
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back then knew the client was using a burner phone that's a prepaid phone that anyone can buy and use anonymously and
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they knew that Maureen Melissa and Megan had all been in contact with Burner numbers right before they disappeared
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in 2012 with the help of the FBI they determined that most of those calls connected to cell towers inside a small
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area of Massapequa Park they called it the box so how large an area is that box you know a couple of blocks within
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within Massapequa Park the new task force began the search for a large built man who also lived in that
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small area and owned a Chevy Avalanche at the time of the disappearances was there a aha moment when all of a
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sudden his name came up once we were able to attach the Avalanche inside of that Massapequa box which then attached
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to Rex Sherman that was a moment where we said okay there's something here the task force now had a prime suspect
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and when they looked at humans personal cell phone records They found that his phone was in the same area as those
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burner phones when they were used to contact a victim in Massapequa Park or in Midtown Manhattan it was always
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consistent Tierney says this was also true for those awful calls Melissa's family got
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from that man using her phone back in 2009. he said do you know what I did to your sister and he said well I killed
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Melissa the task force says that it confirmed that human does in fact use burner
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phones investigators say he had two different burner numbers in 2022 and they say they watched and put money on
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one of those accounts here and according to court papers the team also documented
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three email accounts using fake names including John Springfield Thomas Hawk and Hunter 1903 and all linked to those
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burner numbers and prosecutors say that heuermann was using a burner phone to send these selfies to solicit and
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arrange for sexual activity one of those accounts linked to huerman prosecutors wrote was used to conduct
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quote thousands of searches related to sex workers sadistic torture-related pornography and child pornography there
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was a lot of torture porn and depictions of women being abused being raped and being killed
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investigators also say that while they were busy watching humor men humor men was trying to watch them conducting
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searches on the task force and the Gilgo victims not only pictures of the victims
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pictures of their relatives their their their sisters their children and he was trying to locate those individuals the
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circumstantial evidence was building but investigators also had physical evidence
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from the Gilgo IV including one male hair that was found in the burlap used to quote restrain and transport Megan
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Waterman's body and they wanted to see if they could link it to huerman police tailed humor men and when he
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threw out this pizza box in this trash can here in Midtown Manhattan they pounced the pizza which was you know
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obviously very significant Tierney says that human's DNA that was found on that pizza crust was consistent with a DNA
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profile from the hair found with Megan Waterman's body and that DNA profile is only found in .04 percent of the
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population that was a remarkable day it was you know the weekend and you know you read you get the report and you read
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it and then you read it again and then you read it a third time and then you read it a fourth time and then you start
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making calls with the DNA the search histories and the burner phone evidence the team felt
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it was time when we decided to take down the case we you know it was a sudden decision we did see him contacting a
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number of sex workers using a burner phone which obviously is concerning plain clothes officers arrested him
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around the corner from his office I don't think he had any clue I don't think he had any clue that we
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were on to him do Hugh your basement and digging in the backyard they say it will take some time
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to comb through what they have now and they were tight-lipped about what they found has the sir Smith truthful
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great question and answers yes can you elaborate on Google you said yes there have been items that we have taken
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into our possession that makes it fruitful and one more big piece of evidence taken
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into possession a first generation Chevy Avalanche humor men once used and it was sitting on property he owns
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in South Carolina when they recovered it we were able to seize that Chevy Avalanche pursuant to a search warrant
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and was certainly going to analyze that but there were female hairs found on some of the victims bodies that don't
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belong to the victims so who do they belong to [Music] what do you make of the evidence against
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Rex heuermann join the conversation now on social media foreign [Music] his quiet neighborhood in Massapequa
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Park was overrun by investigators and media focusing intense scrutiny on the ramshackle home and its remaining
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residents his stepson Christopher Sheridan daughter Victoria heuerman and his wife of more than 25 years ASA
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elorup their life going forward is always going to be the wife or the children of suspected serial killer
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that's what it's going to be from now on Bob Macedonia represents ASA alarup who
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has since filed for divorce from huerman he says she was as stunned as anyone by
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the accusations she had no idea how this going on the allegations are shocking nobody wants to
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think that they've been living with sleeping next to a serial killer for the past 25 years as it turns out Assa may
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have inadvertently helped Focus the investigation on her husband investigators say they've identified
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strands of female hair that were found on two of the victims one hair on Waterman comes back to his wife or the
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DNA profiles are consistent and then the DNA profile from Costello is consistent
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with the wife although prosecutors have evidence that ASA was out of town when those murders
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occurred they will have to explain how those hairs got on the victims Suffolk County D.A Ray Tierney says it could be
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as simple as transfer you live at home with a spouse a little bit of your hair falls on your shoulder as well as your
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spouses then you go out and you interact with a third party and that hair gets on
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them alsa ellerup has not been charged or named a suspect in any of the murders you don't believe that Rex huerman's
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wife was involved in this in any way there's no evidence to indicate that no along with the public scrutiny of Assa
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there's also been support from people that perhaps know all too well what she's going through Kerry Rawson the
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daughter of serial killer Dennis Rader who named himself BTK tweeted us and her kids are also victims I can
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tell that they are going through hell and from Melissa Moore the daughter of Keith jesperson a serial killer known as
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a Happy Face Killer for taunting authorities with letters signed with a happy face she reached out immediately
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to myself and we put her in contact with Asa at a press conference Macedonia announced Moore set up a GoFundMe page
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for ASA which raised over fifty thousand dollars money he says will largely go to
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medical bills ASA is battling breast and skin cancer and because Rex ureman was a
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Sole Provider for the family macedonio says she will soon lose her health insurance I also would like me to
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express her thanks to the support she's received she's going through a very difficult time
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us as children have also paid a heavy prize her daughter Victoria who worked for her father at the architectural
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consulting firm and her son Christopher are both now unemployed also struggles to support them says macedonio while
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she's also trying to figure out how to start over how is she getting through every day
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honestly yeah minute by minute she has no one else to turn to it this time family and friends have been hesitant to
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have her come over because they don't want the media attention she gets followed Wherever She Goes
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for the moment she and her children continue to live in the house in Massapequa Park which the family says
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was excessively damaged during the police search seen in these photos provided by asa's attorney it's a daily
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reminder of the unimaginable crimes her estranged husband is charged with and the investigation that continues into
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what else he may have done [Music] [Music] um Rex heuerman awaiting trial is locked
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inside a Suffolk County Jail in a 60 square foot cell he denies killing Melissa Bartholomew
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Megan Waterman and Amber Costello their voice is now silent as the sand where they have been ruthlessly
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discarded how sure are you as you're sitting here now that Rex druerman is the Long Island
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serial killer so we're just at the beginning stages of this case but we would not have brought this indictment
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if we weren't confident in our case he took away Somebody's Mother Somebody's Daughter
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somebody's sister and not just one person multiple individuals fewer men is currently the prime suspect
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for the murder of Maureen Brainerd Barnes and for investigators and obvious question still hangs heavy
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if human is a killer are there other victims I mean isn't there a real concern that
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there may be other victims out there always who's to say that there's not more bodies out there that we need to
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investigate in 2011 police did find other bodies along Ocean Parkway after finding the
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Gilgo four there is victim number five Jessica Taylor an escort who went missing in 2003.
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another set of remains police called Jane Doe number six is now identified as Valerie Mack also working as an escort
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number seven to investigators surprise they found a toddler girl number eight an Asian male dress in
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women's clothing number nine a female skull belonging to Karen vergata an escort who disappeared
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in 1996. number 10 female remains from a victim cops nicknamed peaches because of a
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tattoo on her torso although her remains were found six miles away police say DNA
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confirms peaches is the mother of that toddler none of those victims has been linked to
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cure men is it that you can't connect him yet or you believe he probably isn't the person who killed these other other
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individuals I don't know investigations also spread to Las Vegas and South Carolina where huermann owns property
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with detectives there taking a fresh look at cases of missing women and then there's Nikki brass I
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remembered him because one he's massive and how many massive like six foot five architects who work in Manhattan live in
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Massapequa you're going from brown and blonde now a hairdresser Nikki claims she may be one that got away she told us
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she used to work as an escort and while we could not substantiate her story Nikki claims she can't shake her memory
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of the night she says she was solicited for sex by Rex jurman and says she fled the restaurant where they met I had
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never gone anywhere and like felt fear my ghost so I mean I needed to get away and I've never had that before
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Nikki says what she found most disturbing is that human himself brought up those bodies Bound in burlap by Gilgo
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Beach he wanted to like really get into it like he asked me how I thought they could get rid of the bodies without
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being caught in that area and I said I've never been over there I've never even seen Gilgo Beach
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and his response was well it's really dark and desolate I'm John Ray and I'm the lawyer Nikki is
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now represented by John Ray an attorney who is also representing Shannon Gilbert's family
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[Music] in December of 2011 investigators finally found Shannon here in the marsh
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not far from Gilgo Beach but they don't believe she was murdered it's an unfortunate incident but right now we
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believe that she just ran into the marsh and unfortunately drowned our investigator told us that he
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believed Shannon was high on drugs that night and says her death was an accident
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something John Ray just can't believe while he doesn't think Shannon was a victim of humor men he does believe she
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was murdered and points to that 9-1-1 call it absolutely makes no sense that she's
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found where she is except that someone else put her there or killed her there and remain about Shannon's last hours
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there's no question she's the reason so many families May finally be getting answers they have long waited for we
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spoke to her sister Sheree in 2011. my sister you know didn't make that 911 call I don't think that these other
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women have been recovered either now investigators hope that with an arrest they can give the victims
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families who stood with them a sense of justice and of peace [Music] I've gotten to know the families and I'm
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inspired by them and I'm impressed by their patience [Music] a local Legend has it that this place
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Gilgo Beach was named for a skilled fisherman called Gill these silver gray Waters once his secret hunting ground
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today this Beach area is better known for a Relentless Hunter of human prey a serial killer whose chilling presence
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can still be felt in the Ocean Air [Music] for students connected by friendship then by tragedy zanna's family speaks
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for the first time see this was always fun she was uplifting Kaylee's parents believe that killer was there before he
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had to know when people are coming people were going 48 Hours next on CBS and streaming on Paramount Plus
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