Gilgo Beach Murders: A Serial Killer’s Secrets?

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Speaker 9 This is Deborah Roberts, co-anchor of 2020. This week, we'll be bringing you a deep dive into the Gilgo Beach murders from Impact by Nightline.

Speaker 9 The number of alleged victims has grown. Prosecutors now have charged a Manhattan architect with the deaths of seven women.
Here's an inside look at the alleged double life of the accused killer.

Speaker 11 A Manhattan professional by day and a serial killer by night?

Speaker 12 Veg Sherriman is a demon that walks among us.

Speaker 11 Was he leading a horrific double life?

Speaker 13 It's like two different people, like Jekyll and Hyde.

Speaker 6 Authorities now charging him with a seventh killing.

Speaker 15 The shocking evidence and court filings that law enforcement says are detailed plans to hunt and kill.

Speaker 16 He's talking about preferences, ways to improve. He's saying things like, use a thicker rope so it doesn't break under pressure.

Speaker 5 Hit harder next time.

Speaker 4 The random 911 call that prompted intensive searches.

Speaker 11 And meet the woman who believes she escaped the go-go killer.

Speaker 20 I remember everything about that night because he scared the crap out of me.

Speaker 11 Gilgo Beach, a spot that had once been synonymous with summer, surfing, and fun in the sun. That is, until police started finding body after body.

Speaker 24 For more than a decade, those unsolved murders kept Long Island shore towns on edge.

Speaker 20 Could four murders on Long Island be the work of a serial killer?

Speaker 25 We want to bring to justice this animal that has obviously taken the lives of a number of people.

Speaker 26 How much did this rock long island?

Speaker 16 Oh, it was horrible. There was a dark cloud over the entire island.

Speaker 11 At least 11 bodies, most of them women, many of them dismembered.

Speaker 26 The remains strewn across a half-mile stretch of Gilgo Beach and in woods further east.

Speaker 29 Police say a serial killer was on the loose.

Speaker 30 The acts are depraved and heinous.

Speaker 31 He has been on the hunt for sex workers who he has brutalized.

Speaker 16 The sheer number of victims that were discovered shows the magnitude of the kind of offender we may be dealing with.

Speaker 32 Rex, did you do it?

Speaker 22 Authorities say the man who committed most of these monstrous crimes is Rex Huerman, an architect, husband, and father by day.

Speaker 8 And they say, a killer by night.

Speaker 20 I probably could have cheated death a thousand times and never knew it. But with him, I think I cheated death and I knew I did.

Speaker 12 Rex Hurriman is a demon that walks among us.

Speaker 24 A predator that ruined families.

Speaker 13 How does he have a wife, daughter, son living in a neighborhood of families? How did he have the time to run a business and do all that he did?

Speaker 16 Law enforcement suspected early on Rex Huriman was living a very compartmentalized double life.

Speaker 6 Huriman has been charged with the murders of seven women, most of them sex workers, who began disappearing in 1993.

Speaker 36 It is long overdue to provide justice for vulnerable women who are missing and murdered.

Speaker 2 He's pleaded pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

Speaker 32 He's a man who's never been arrested before. He's maintained his innocence from the inception of this case.

Speaker 39 Today, my office filed a superseding indictment charging the defendant Yerman with a seventh charge murder in the second degree.

Speaker 11 The most recent murder charge coming in December in the case of Valerie Mack, whose decapitated remains were found at Gilgo Beach.

Speaker 30 We want her family to know that they are not alone in their grief.

Speaker 22 Now, law enforcement is exposing gruesome details of his alleged double life.

Speaker 5 Rex, hello.

Speaker 19 How you doing?

Speaker 41 Good to see you.

Speaker 23 They say a 60-year-old seemingly mild-mannered father of two from Massapequa Park, Long Island, profiled in an online video about New York real estate.

Speaker 42 When a job that should have been routine suddenly becomes not routine,

Speaker 42 I get the phone call.

Speaker 8 Could have brutally murdered so many women.

Speaker 33 And then the disturbing evidence authorities say they obtained from his home.

Speaker 43 Yerman had a significant collection of violent bondage and torture pornography.

Speaker 44 Prosecutors said, in addition to all this torture pornography, Hurman searched references to the Gilgal Beach serial killings.

Speaker 26 And he seemingly, according to prosecutors, would keep tabs on certain victims, their families, even collecting headlines from People Magazine and the New York Post.

Speaker 31 A lot of what serial killers get off about is the planning. I am smarter than all of them.

Speaker 31 I beat the authorities. They can't catch me.
And look how successful I am at this.

Speaker 34 But for every piece of evidence comes the question, why did it take so long for police to make an arrest?

Speaker 2 And could there be more victims out there?

Speaker 31 If convicted, it's possible that Rex Huerman could wind up being one of the most prolific serial killers of our time.

Speaker 31 I think that we are just starting to scratch on the surface the tip of the iceberg.

Speaker 11 13 years after the first bodies were uncovered at Gilgo Beach, authorities finally zeroed in on Rex Hurricane, plainclothes officers surrounding him on a busy street in Manhattan.

Speaker 16 When they did make an arrest, I was stunned because there had been no media attention on the case at all for 11 months, not even a news article.

Speaker 16 So I was worried that behind the scenes, they had lost steam.

Speaker 2 With the arrest, non-stop news coverage began.

Speaker 4 An orchestrated perp walk

Speaker 11 to finally show his face.

Speaker 26 I've seen Rex Hurriman in court and he is a kind of a hulking figure.

Speaker 4 He's tall, wide.

Speaker 44 He even makes some of the court officers look small.

Speaker 2 For days, authorities turned his home upside down, even digging up the backyard.

Speaker 11 Curious onlookers were there for every discovery.

Speaker 44 Police ended up seizing hundreds of electronic devices from his house. They discovered a single word document that ended up becoming one of the most disturbing parts of the case.

Speaker 44 This document, according to prosecutors, reads like a plan for how to go about killing victims, where to bury them, what to keep in mind for the next time, if something wasn't quite right, the kind of hardware that would be necessary.

Speaker 44 for killing and dismemberment.

Speaker 16 He's talking about preferences, ways to improve. He's saying things like, hit harder next time, just really devastating plans for the next person he intends to target.

Speaker 31 So as far as the planning document, he had pointed out that the ropes broke, and so he needed a thicker rope to bind these women to.

Speaker 31 So it tells us that he's getting off on the planning, but also that he's learning from past mistakes and he wants to make sure that he's correcting his errors so that he maybe one day will

Speaker 31 get to the perfect crime.

Speaker 33 There's also a section that investigators say appears to be a reference to potential targets.

Speaker 16 So TRG seems to indicate in this document a victim he's looking at. He even explicitly said small is good.

Speaker 35 He went after smaller women.

Speaker 16 He went after smaller women for the purpose of making cleaning up easier.

Speaker 31 We know that he was targeting smaller bodies. We know that they are sex workers, women who

Speaker 31 were feminine and small and probably couldn't put up as much of a fight.

Speaker 15 According to investigators, this planning document was created the exact same year Valerie Mack, the latest victim police are tying to Huberman, was murdered.

Speaker 22 Authorities say she fit the profile of what he was hunting for.

Speaker 29 Small, only five feet tall, and a sex worker, just 24 years old when she went missing.

Speaker 16 Valerie Mack struggled with drug use,

Speaker 16 and that led her to engage in survival sex work.

Speaker 46 Being a sex worker is a dangerous line of work, and the nature of this profession makes it very easy for people to prey upon these individuals.

Speaker 46 And when they go missing, missing, very few people know or even beg to ask the question, where did they go?

Speaker 11 Valerie's decapitated remains were discovered about 40 miles from Gilgo Beach few months after her disappearance in 2000.

Speaker 23 Parts of her body were bound with rope.

Speaker 18 More than a decade later, the rest of her body would be found during the search at Gilgo Beach.

Speaker 18 Two rings surrounded by a steel cage.

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Speaker 11 And a story with so many twists and turns, the bodies at Gilgo Beach might never have been found, if not for the chilling case of Shannon Gilbert and the frantic 911 call she made in the spring of 2010.

Speaker 11 The 24-year-old was an escort working one evening in Oak Beach, Long Island, just east of Gilgo.

Speaker 16 She was basically running away.

Speaker 20 Her last phone call was 23 minutes to 911.

Speaker 51 23 minutes is a long 911 call.

Speaker 45 What do we know about what happened on that call?

Speaker 16 She seems to be panicked and she seems to be in real fear of something as she's on this call.

Speaker 44 It sounded frantic as she went to any house she could find, banging on doors, asking for help.

Speaker 26 And then according to police, she ends up taking off into this marshy area.

Speaker 26 and she was never heard from again.

Speaker 30 The area is extremely difficult to search. It's extremely heavily vegetated.

Speaker 30 The terrain is difficult to navigate.

Speaker 11 Stuart Cameron ran the search for Shannon Gilbert back in 2010.

Speaker 28 One of his colleagues and his canine partner were tapped to help sniff out Shannon.

Speaker 30 On December 11th, 2010, he located a set of human remains on the north side off the shore of Ocean Parkway. The assumption was that it was Shannon Gilbert, but it wasn't.

Speaker 23 The body, wrapped in burlap, was identified as Melissa Bartholomew, a 24-year-old sex worker.

Speaker 34 Days later, another shocking find.

Speaker 37 We were quite surprised the second day when we found the second body.

Speaker 37 And then we conducted a more detailed search and we found the third body and then ultimately the fourth body.

Speaker 30 Pretty much dawned on all of us the realization that there was a serial killer working.

Speaker 38 A gruesome find about three miles away near Gilgo Beach, a suspected serial killer cemetery containing four skeletons dumped by the side of the road.

Speaker 6 But none of them were Shannon Gilbert.

Speaker 6 They were later identified as Amber Costello, Maureen Brainer Bards, and Megan Waterman, women in their 20s, bound in a similar fashion and all apparently working as escorts before they disappeared.

Speaker 6 With Melissa, they became known as the Gilgo Four.

Speaker 9 They were human beings.

Speaker 16 With aspirations and hope for a better future for themselves.

Speaker 9 They have families who love and miss them.

Speaker 52 Megan

Speaker 52 really thought she was safe. Megan thought nothing would happen to her, and she was only doing this temporarily.
And then, less than a month later, she was gone.

Speaker 23 How many times have you actually been out to Yogo Beach?

Speaker 16 I've probably been here like 15 or 20 times. I come out here kind of as often as I can.

Speaker 16 It just helps you get some greater perspective on what we're dealing with here.

Speaker 11 Alexis Linkletter is from Long Island and has lived and breathed this case for much of her life.

Speaker 16 There's no doubt that the entire nation is completely enthralled and mystified by this case.

Speaker 8 She hosts her own podcast on the murders, Unraveled for Investigation Discovery.

Speaker 16 This whole path here didn't used to be here. So trucks used to be able to essentially pull right up to this, which is probably what our suspect did in this case.

Speaker 33 If you're you're looking at all this brush and marsh right here, like if you're looking at double bodies.

Speaker 16 It's extremely remote. At night, there's no streetlights, so you would see someone coming from miles away in either direction.

Speaker 16 And before this bike path was here, you really could just back your vehicle up to it and do whatever you needed to do and have no one see you.

Speaker 21 By May of 2011, the search had yielded body parts belonging to six more of the victims.

Speaker 30 We found four sets of remains that were full human bodies, but now we found a set of partial remains.

Speaker 30 So someone had taken a human body and, you know, it's really heinous and hard to believe, chopped up a human body and dumped part of the body in this area.

Speaker 16 Immediately following their discovery, a new police chief was put into power. And that police chief himself had many skeletons in his closet.
And he was not interested in the FBI uncovering those.

Speaker 16 So he did everything he could to essentially sabotage their efforts in solving this case.

Speaker 44 And the investigation really went nowhere for the better part of a decade.

Speaker 26 And this was terrifying for people who lived along the south shore of Long Island, that all these people were being killed near where they lived and nobody was being held accountable.

Speaker 23 But investigators managed to pinpoint the suspects' locations through his phone calls.

Speaker 30 Through the analysis of the cell phone data that had been accumulated from this case, give us an area of Massapequa. This is the area where we believe the killer may reside.

Speaker 30 So that was a primary focus of the investigation.

Speaker 10 As if the deaths of their loved ones weren't horrific enough, friends and family members of the victims received taunting phone calls from the killer.

Speaker 31 Why would a person like to do this and taunt psychologically, like to get into someone's someone's mind knowing I've killed your friend or your family member.

Speaker 31 There's an element, again, of control and the element of torture.

Speaker 14 He goes, do you know Marie?

Speaker 14 And Marie was her escort name.

Speaker 10 Sarah Carnes, a friend of Gilgo victim Maureen Brainerd Barnes, says she got one of those calls two weeks after Maureen went missing.

Speaker 14 He's like, she's not missing.

Speaker 14 Well, I just saw her at a whorehouse in Queens.

Speaker 46 Oh, yeah that doesn't sound right to me and you know and i'm like can you call me back unblocked because i need to tell the cops and her family this so that they're not worried anymore he's like yeah yeah sure sure never called me back authorities say they eventually trace some of the killer's calls to midtown manhattan law enforcement know the suspect has burner phones and are making phone calls in two locations an individual who may live in Long Island and take the Long Island Railroad into Manhattan by Midtown and also work in that area.

Speaker 46 Thousands make that commute daily and so now law enforcement has to figure out who's the one making this commute and are they the suspect they're looking for.

Speaker 11 The case finally gets momentum in 2022 after Suffolk County announces the creation of a task force, bringing together local, state, and federal officials and breaking the case wide open.

Speaker 29 They start taking a fresh look at old evidence from Amber Costello's disappearance.

Speaker 16 Right before she went missing, she had a client come to her home. And essentially, along with her roommate, they engaged in a ruse with this client.

Speaker 16 And that ruse included taking the client's money and then the male roommate coming home pretending to be Amber's boyfriend. And the client ultimately drove off angry.

Speaker 22 Amber's roommate told investigators the truck driven by the client was a 2002 Green Chevy Avalanche.

Speaker 26 A distinctive vehicle that just isn't sold very much in this part of the country. It's a Chevy Avalanche, which is kind of this hulking sort of truck, sort of SUV, and not a lot of people have it.

Speaker 16 A female state police detective basically started with all the evidence from the beginning.

Speaker 16 What this detective did was looked up all the green 2002 Chevy Avalanches within a certain geographical area and also cross-referenced a physical description that that same roommate provided.

Speaker 16 He described the suspect as being extremely tall, resembling an ogre.

Speaker 16 And it didn't take this detective long to sort of zero in on somebody who seemed to match all of these things and who also had ties to the key locations of Massapico Park and Midtown Manhattan.

Speaker 40 It started with a phone call in the early hours of the morning.

Speaker 12 911, what is the address to your emergency?

Speaker 40 A terrified woman tells the operator she's been kidnapped, assaulted, and that she's trapped in a room with her attacker.

Speaker 40 He's fallen asleep, so she quietly and ever so carefully finds his phone and calls for help.

Speaker 19 Is there any way you can get out of the building? I don't know. I don't think we can count me.
I'm scared.

Speaker 40 This 911 call began an investigation that would turn the town of Ashland into a crime scene.

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Speaker 15 That person, authorities say, was Rex Human.

Speaker 20 I remember everything about that night because he scared the crap out of me. And nobody's ever made me scared or uncomfortable like that.
Like when he got arrested, I was like, I knew it.

Speaker 10 Nikki Brass considers herself lucky.

Speaker 22 She says her date in 2015 with him left her terrified.

Speaker 20 I was on seeking arrangements, like escort alligator, and I posted looking for a sugar daddy. I'm not sure which one he contacted me on because it's been over 10 years, but he messaged me.

Speaker 21 She says they messaged back and forth for a few days, and that some of the messages were concerning.

Speaker 20 So, first of all, he wanted me to meet him directly at his house. He didn't want to meet public, which I don't do.
I'm not coming directly to a stranger's house.

Speaker 20 So, to not want to meet in public was kind of like a big red flag for me.

Speaker 22 Even in the messages, you had to watch it.

Speaker 20 Yeah, but I ignored it. Like, he was someone that was like, I have a lot of money.
I could take care of you.

Speaker 10 They decide to meet, she says, at a restaurant, but not before Nikki takes some precautions.

Speaker 20 I did get a picture of him. I'm not going to say specifically who I sent it to because they asked me not to.

Speaker 20 But when he sent me his picture, I was at Chuck E. Cheese with that person and I showed them the picture.
I said, this is who I'm going out with. They're an architect.
They work in Manhattan.

Speaker 19 What was it like?

Speaker 33 How'd the date go?

Speaker 20 So when we sat down, it was basic small talk, like normal stuff you would talk about when you first sit down on date. So this is what you do for a living.
What do you want to do? What are your dreams?

Speaker 20 Like basic stuff. That's when he asked asked if I liked true crime.
I was like, yes. Like I was excited to talk about it because most people don't want to.

Speaker 10 Even a true crime conversation, she says, didn't set off any red flags until.

Speaker 20 Once he said, have you heard of the Gilbert Beach Killer? And I said, yeah, he got like very, very excited. Like his body language changed.
He like moved into the table and got his elbows on it.

Speaker 20 Like he was very like wanting to talk about that and was excited that he was able to.

Speaker 23 And what's going through your head?

Speaker 20 I mean, I just thought he was a buff, but then like

Speaker 20 he seemed way too weird. It didn't seem like somebody who was just nerding out.
It was somebody who was like reliving what they did and enjoying reliving what they did.

Speaker 6 She says their date didn't end well.

Speaker 20 He was like, so you're going to come back to my house, right?

Speaker 20 And I was like trying to be polite. So I was like, it's late, you know, I really don't know the area.
I don't want to be driving at night. And he was like, oh, no, no, no.

Speaker 20 Like, you would leave your car here. Why would we take two cars? That makes no sense.

Speaker 26 You're getting it.

Speaker 20 At that point, I had already texted somebody to meet me at the door.

Speaker 20 And he got angry. Like, you could tell he was trying to hold it together and not seem angry, but he was like very angry.

Speaker 15 Right after that night and in the years leading up to Huerman's arrest, Nikki says she told people she had gone on a date with the Gilgo Beach killer.

Speaker 8 No one believed her.

Speaker 6 And those who worked with Huerman say they suspected nothing.

Speaker 13 He had a big eagle, that's for for sure. A big head on his shoulders.

Speaker 19 Rex, hello. How you doing?

Speaker 41 Good to see you.

Speaker 42 Rex Hurman, I'm an architect. I'm an architectural consultant.
I'm a troubleshooter. Born and raised on Long Island.

Speaker 26 Okay.

Speaker 42 Been working in Manhattan since 1987.

Speaker 13 We'd argue a lot about certain things, but he, yeah, I never saw anything that would make me feel that I couldn't be left alone with him.

Speaker 17 You were alone with him a lot.

Speaker 13 Well, yes, because if I ran the office and all the other two people who work in the office were in the field, so so yeah, I would be in the office alone with him a lot.

Speaker 22 Muriel Enriquez met Rex Huerman back in 1992 and worked with him at his architectural consulting company.

Speaker 6 Their work relationship was ordinary, except for one unsettling incident when she was on vacation.

Speaker 13 So he would always make comments like, yeah, I can find you in the middle of the ocean. I said, no, you can't.
How are you going to find me on a cruise ship?

Speaker 17 She went on that cruise ship.

Speaker 23 And one afternoon, Muriel says she got a surprise.

Speaker 13 I had been on a cruise for a day and there was a note under my door, but it was a note from Rex pretty much saying, I told you I could find you anywhere.

Speaker 13 And that note, I remember being so at first scared, like, could he be on this ship? That went through my mind for a minute. I realized he couldn't be on the ship, but how did he get that note to me?

Speaker 13 I still couldn't figure that out.

Speaker 15 But when she came back to the office.

Speaker 13 I said, Rex, I mean, really? You don't have anything else better to do than to like send me a note on a cruise ship? He goes, I told you I could find you anywhere. That was his response.

Speaker 27 What was yours?

Speaker 13 Mine was, well, how did you do do that? He says, I have my ways.

Speaker 2 And then it was the seemingly innocent present from Huerman from his wife's trip to Iceland.

Speaker 13 Well, we always complain about being cold in the office. So he says, Oh, you know, Iceland makes these beautiful wool sweaters.
You know, would you like each of you would like a sweater?

Speaker 13 I said, Sure, you know, why not?

Speaker 15 But police say the very same week his wife and kids were in Iceland, Huerman was out hunting women.

Speaker 54 When you learn that that same week that his wife and his daughter were gone to Iceland was the same week that Maureen Brainerd Barnes went missing.

Speaker 13 What goes to your head? That, oh my goodness, I can't believe that he actually had his wife bring back gifts for us while he was out murdering someone else.

Speaker 13 Like, how do you, how does somebody do that?

Speaker 31 That was just unbelievable to me.

Speaker 13 It's like two different people completely.

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Speaker 16 After law enforcement identified Hurman through his 2002 Chevy Avalanche, they began monitoring him. They did so for, I believe, 16 months.

Speaker 16 And they were pulling all sorts of records, phone records, IP address records. They're finding surveillance footage of him, buying new burner phones.

Speaker 16 Rex Hurman is allegedly using these burner phones to go on dating websites, to solicit contact with sex workers on various websites.

Speaker 16 And according to them, they suspected that he may have been gearing up to kill again.

Speaker 44 Prosecutors were increasingly confident, but they needed more. They needed a direct DNA sample from Rex Huerman and they got it from Pizza Crust.

Speaker 22 Police devised an elaborate plan, trailing him to work in Manhattan and retrieving a pizza crust he threw into a trash can.

Speaker 13 When they found that pizza crust, I said, that's so Rex that he would just eat the crust on a run and throw it in the trash.

Speaker 13 That's the way he did, never sitting down to like eat a meal.

Speaker 23 Undercover agents also followed his daughter Victoria onto the Long Island Railroad.

Speaker 3 They picked up an energy drink can that she tossed out.

Speaker 22 They also recovered his wife Asa's DNA from bottles in the human's garbage.

Speaker 6 Investigators say that DNA evidence turned out to be crucial.

Speaker 44 When police initially recovered the bodies, they were able

Speaker 22 to find hair samples.

Speaker 44 Some of them female, there was a male, but the DNA technology was not sensitive enough to establish any kind of a potential suspect.

Speaker 46 Now when it comes to those female hair, they were able to track what's called the mitochondrial DNA of that hair and see that it was closely connected to or related to Rex Hurerman's wife and or daughter.

Speaker 46 Law enforcement is making connection between the male hair being Rex Hureman and his wife or daughter's hair being there, that the only connection must be that Rex Huerman at one point was at the location when these women were either killed or their bodies were buried.

Speaker 22 But police say Hurerman's wife and children are not suspects.

Speaker 3 In fact, they were out of town around the time the the murders occurred.

Speaker 28 What did investigators actually conclude by finding Rex's family members' hair on some of the victims?

Speaker 16 Law enforcement suspected early on that that may mean that these women were killed inside the Huerman home.

Speaker 6 Initially, Huerman was charged with three murders immediately following his arrest.

Speaker 33 Even with this arrest,

Speaker 12 We're not done.

Speaker 12 There's more work to do in this investigation regarding the other victims.

Speaker 34 He has subsequently been charged with four more, including Jessica Taylor.

Speaker 16 When her life was stolen, a light went out.

Speaker 31 She is forever missed.

Speaker 17 Her head, arms, and hands, found less than a mile from where the original Gilgo 4 have been discovered.

Speaker 6 The rest of her body was found years earlier, further inland.

Speaker 16 Jessica Taylor's remains were found in the morning, but the night before, around 10 p.m., witnesses later recalled seeing what appeared to be a Chevy Avalanche backed in to a wooded area.

Speaker 16 And the presumption there is that whoever murdered Jessica Taylor was leaving her remains there.

Speaker 6 Investigators say DNA from a hare also linked Hueman to the unsolved 1993 murder of Sandra Costilla.

Speaker 16 It was a jaw-dropping moment because this is a victim who had never been associated with the Long Island serial killer case at all.

Speaker 6 The 28-year-old was found in Southampton, about 60 miles away from Gilgo Beach, with numerous sharp force injuries all over her body, including her face, torso, and breasts.

Speaker 16 It introduced a brand new location, and it also drastically expanded the timeline previously associated with this case, which means this expands this case greatly in terms of victims that could be connected to this suspect.

Speaker 10 Impact has reached out to Rex Hermann's attorney, but has not heard back.

Speaker 17 There are still three unidentified bodies found at Gilgo Beach, including the body of a male found dressed in women's clothes, who police called Asian Doe.

Speaker 44 There was another that police called Peaches because of a distinctive tattoo. There was a toddler that was identified as Peach's toddler because of some jewelry they had in common and DNA testing.

Speaker 10 Another Gilgo Beach victim who's since been identified is Karen Vergata, a 34-year-old escort who went missing in 1996.

Speaker 11 None of them have been tied to Huerman yet.

Speaker 44 Prosecutors have no doubt. They say Rex Huerman is their guy, is the serial killer.
They've charged him now with seven murders.

Speaker 44 And I would expect that if they can build the evidence, they will charge him with more.

Speaker 45 Do you suspect that there's more bodies?

Speaker 16 I absolutely think, sadly, that there will be many more victims associated with this case.

Speaker 9 This is Deborah Roberts. Our story was produced by Impact by Nightline and includes footage from Newsday TV.
You can find Gilgo Beach Murders, A Serial Killer's Secrets, streaming on Hulu.

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