the biggest break came when they were surveilling heuermann at his midtown manhattan office. he was eating pizza and discarded it. dna from the pizza crust say investigators linked heuermann to the murders. heuermann has been charged with the murders of melissa torme, amber lynn costello, and megan waterman. all sex workers in their 20s. the investigation is continuing. he has been also been named as a suspect in the murder of marine brain or barns. there were 11 bodies found in and around go-go beach. only three and possibly a fourth now linked to one alleged killer so far. investigators say they made the arrest now because they feared heuermann could strike again. one of the reasons we had to take this case down was we learned that the defendant was using these ultimate identities and these alternate instruments to continue to patronize sex workers. reporter: rex herman insists
long island, new york, where police have arrested a suspect in a more than decade old serial killer investigation, according to a law enforcement official and two government officials, a suspect is in custody in the so-called go go beach murders. 11 sets of human remains have been found along a stretch of highway in the area after police began searching for a missing 24-year-old in 2010. nbc news correspondent emilie ikeda is with me now. what more do we know about the suspect in this case? this moment years in the making. just in the last matter of minutes, we re learning from four senior law enforcement officials the identity of the suspect in the gilgo beach murders. he s being identified as rex herman. law enforcement on the grounds of his home in massapequa park area swarming that area throughout the day. the d.a. s office describing it as a significant development in the case. it s coming just over a year after we saw this multiagency task force form to, quote, reinvigorate the
the country, a national spotlight on this just absolutely tragic case with so many unanswered questions. as you mentioned, a string of bodies found along suffolk county, human remains belonging to 11 different people. for those in the area, they ll remember the sweeping search efforts as you re seeing through that beachy brush for a long period of time. those stunning discoveries really coming after police began searching for 24-year-old sex worker shannon gilbert back in 2010. this morning, again, police on the ground in massapequa park, the home to rex herman according to sources. neighbors say they didn t notice anything out of the ordinary about the suspect. take a listen here. we ve been here for about 30 years, and the guy s been quiet, never really bothers anybody. we were kind of shocked to tell you the truth. the guy, he keeps to himself. he pretty much keeps to himself.
was absolutely not drunk and they would have noticed if kevin spacey had been drunk. ultimately by then, kevin spacey said he had had consensual sexual activity with two of the plaintiffs, one of the plaintiffs, he had completely misread the situation, and he accused the fourth plaintiff of completely making up the entire scenario. asked why would somebody make up this entire scenario, he said, money, money, and more money. ali arouzi, thank you for that. we re now learning more about the suspect arrested in connection with the long unsolved giglo beach serial killings. a lot of folks may not have heard of this. tell us what s happening? i can tell you it s a stunning development in a cold case. authorities are saying they have a suspect in custody. 59-year-old rex herman. we re told he s an architecture who lives on long island but
the suspect in the long island gilgo beach serial killings, rex herman, was charged with murder of at least three women. a 59-year-old architect who worked on long island. police have been looking for a suspect since 2010 when they started finding bodies on a remote stretch of highway about 40 miles from manhattan. a total of 11 people were found dead. some of them were identified as escorts. so i know there s a community out there that as the facts unfold will be sleeping a lot easier tonight, and a lot of families whose lives have been just turned upside down always wondering, questioning what happened, and will the perpetrator ever be brought to justice. hopefully after further news is unveiled today that the answer