Investigators re-interviewed women who had contact with Gilgo suspect

 

New developments in the so-called

go go beach serial murders.

Police in Suffolk

County are re-interviewing

two women

after discovering that serial killer

suspect Rex Harmon

propositioned them several years ago.

It comes as we're learning

more about him and his life behind bars.

The Suffolk County

Jail has taken extra precautions

to house him,

including installing more cameras

near his cell.

They say they have him

under 20 47 monitoring.

Extra personnel

also have been assigned to him

because of this 6466 foot six I'm

sorry, and roughly £275 suspect size.

And the charges

he is accused of,

they include killing Melissa Barthelemy

and Waterman

and Amber Costello

stuffing their bodies into burlap sacks.

He's also the main suspect

in a fourth murder,

Maureen Brainerd Barnes.

Jean Casarez is OUTFRONT

as the

investigation into

the Jill Go beach serial killing

suspect continues.

More people

coming forward

to talk about their interactions

with Rex Human

I had a really, really bad

feeling, like my gut was like

telling me

I needed to get away from them.

Nikki Brass telling Good Morning America.

Human solicited her online in 2015

when she worked as an escort

and that he talked about the GilGil

Beach murders.

When he talked about it,

he would like

speaking a day and hypothetical

But he had this smile on his face

that made me really uneasy.

And like he just glossed over

look in his eye

The investigation now spans the country.

Authorities in South

Carolina searching

property owned by human

for any evidence to link

the 59 year old architect

to the murder of three young women

in New York in 2009 and 2010.

Sources tell CNN a Chevy Avalanche

was seized from the property

and is being combed for evidence.

There were SWAT team.

The FBI was all kind of stuff.

Those living

next to the property were stunned

We have adjoining property

to a serial killer,

which is like,

you know,

that's like

I never put that on my bucket list.

And over 2000 miles away in Las Vegas,

Law enforcement

officials tell CNN

they are looking at cold case homicides

to see if there could be any links,

according to property records

obtained by CNN.

Human and his wife purchased

two timeshare condos in Las Vegas in 2003

and 2005

on Long Island,

where Human lived crime scene

investigators continue to collect

and process potential evidence

from inside his home

and his nearby storage unit.

Also, searching for possible connections

to remains of eight

other people found along that beach.

Does it tie into any other victims,

any other victims

that we may not even know

where the bodies are?

You know,

people

who have been reported

missing human remains in jail on routine

COVID restriction

protocols and suicide watch.

Law enforcement

tells CNN he isn't talking and has had

no visitors

and wrecks.

Human has pleaded not guilty.

His attorneys

saying that this is a circumstantial case

and it is weak.

I spoke with an attorney

this afternoon, John Wray,

and he is working with representing

two other families of other victims

that were found in the vicinity.

They're not part of the charges

now against Schulman,

but he says these families are on edge.

They are just waiting

and wanting

to know what the truth is here.

And he says it's justice for the victims,

but it's a mercy for these families

that have had to linger for so long,

not knowing what the truth was. Right.

And of course, we'll see.

You know,

they're saying in three cases

could, of course, be

many, many more, as you point out.

Jane, thank you very much.

And joining me

now, the Suffolk County

District Attorney Ray Tierney

and district attorney,

I appreciate your time.

You know,

people are coming forward to escorts.

Among them

who interacted with Rex Horman.

They did not go home with him.

Are any of these new tips leading you

to more victims, to more

leads in this case?

Thanks for having the Erin.

I think that,

you know, this investigation has has

entered into a new phase.

Previously, we had been doing

a grand jury investigation,

which is which was secret,

which we were deliberately

trying to obscure from the target.

Now that we've arrested him and executed

these search warrants,

it's a new phase and it's an overt phase.

So we execute the search warrants.

We're going

to have to go through that evidence,

but we're also going to have to interview

a great number of people,

which we'll be doing over the course

of the next couple of days.

So you're going to do that

over the next couple of days.

So moving quickly on that front.

Absolutely. Okay.

So I know you said at the arraignment

from what you knew

then that he had, quote,

a lot of torture

porn depictions of women

being abused, raped,

even killed in his possession.

What can you tell me,

district attorney, about some of the

other evidence that you found

So, you know, we've we've

executed, as your report indicates,

a great number

of search warrants

over a great many different places.

And where

we're looking for everything

from, you know, large items to, you know,

molecular items like blood, DNA, trace

evidence, hair.

So what's happening

is our

our criminal criminologist

from the Suffolk

County Crime

Lab are going through each of these areas

literally inch by inch by inch

to try to obtain

as much evidence as possible.

This is a painstaking process.

It is a long process.

And we're going to let that play out.

We're going to inventory

all that evidence.

We're going to analyze it,

and then we'll be able to talk about.

So are you able to share

any more about

what was found in his actual home?

I mean, you know,

people are now understanding

right in the Carolinas,

there were multiple places

searched but in the vault in his home,

we know that there were guns.

There were reports out today

that suggest other evidence

found in his home,

maybe a handcuff keys or stained t shirt.

I mean, things that could obviously

lead people's minds in obvious

and horrific directions.

Can you confirm any of that?

Well, you know, when we

execute the search warrant

and one of the reasons

why we didn't

want to

arrest the defendant at his home

is because we knew he had

permits for 92 handguns

so we knew he had access to

a large number of guns.

We executed the search warrant.

Certainly, that has been borne out.

So we're going to inventory those guns.

And you know, we'll

we'll provide the information

once it's concluded.

But again, you know, once you get some

you get an item of evidence,

you're going to swab it

see if you can get blood, saliva, hair,

DNA, all of these things.

It takes time.

So, you know,

as as a as a

as an investigator

and as a as a prosecutor, you don't

you don't let out information piecemeal.

You would you investigate

and then you provide

your findings in court

like we did at the arraignment.

So so can I just ask a question

just in terms of when you got

you started this,

you were doing

the grand jury didn't want him to know

Were you sort of observing him

during that time, watching

how he behaved?

Did you see anything or was it

or did it

shock you

with its apparent normalcy, given what

you believe?

You have proof he did?

No, nothing.

Nothing really doing this,

nothing really shocks you.

I think it was pretty clear

we did surveil him.

We did physical surveillance

and otherwise surveilled him.

And, you know, from our observations

and our investigation,

it was pretty clear

that this defendant

was living a double life,

you know, a part of his life that he

presented to the public and a

part of his life

that that he very much kept in.

And one final question.

District attorney,

do you believe that there will be

you will be able to link him

to multiple more of these killings right.

Of these of these women?

And I know, of course, at least one man,

but whose bodies were found

all in that area of Cocoa Beach.

So I came in office in January of 2022.

Yep.

We started the task force

in February of 2022.

Rex Zimmerman

was identified

as a target from Mark up on March 14th,

six weeks later.

And we've been off

and running ever since then.

We're continuing to accumulate evidence

through the grand

jury with regard

to the four women

who were known as the guilt go for.

We've we've charged

three of those murders.

We're going to continue to work

those murders.

We're going to continue to evaluate

all the evidence in this case.

And then beyond that,

we're going to expand our investigation

into the other bodies on Gilbert Beach.

It doesn't matter what I think.

It matters what I can prove.

And after we're done with this exhaustive

investigation,

I'll have more information for everyone.

All right.

Well, district attorney,

I appreciate your time.

Thank you very much. Thank you, Erin.

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