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CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield

to killing the women whose bodies were discovered near each other, wrapped in burlap more than a decade ago. i would like to bring in polo sandoval with more on this. what are you learning? >> reporter: it goes without saying, an additional murder filing would be a lot, a fourth family would know a man accused of killing their loved one would have to answer in court. also, this is certainly not surprising. it was expected given what we have heard from investigators in the last several months, they were looking into finding potential links between heuermann and additional victims. we also know the grand jury proceedings have been ongoing. the hearings ongoing for the last several months. this is why this additional charge would certainly expected here, and that charge could be filed according to sources as early as tuesday morning. now, just a quick background for this. as you mentioned at the top, he's already pleaded not guilty

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CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield

for the separate killings of three different women. sources however have not identified the victim named in this expected charge. however, heuermann was, as you recall, arrested last july and back then prosecutors said he was the prime suspect in the disappearance and murder of a fourth woman, maureen brainard barnes, known as the gilgo four, for the location where their bodies were discovered. the women were killed and wrapped in burlap. this surprise arrest for many was certainly coming after a break in the case, after well over a decade. cnn has reached out to attorneys for heuermann as well as suffolk county prosecutors and investigators as well. >> polo sandoval, thank you so much. we'll be right back.

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CNN News Central

and remember that pizza crust, because that was discarded pizza crust by rex heuermann according to legal documents and they got that, they say they got his dna, compared it to dna on the victims and remember there was a male hair on the burlap outside of one of the victims they found and they said they want a match, but they want more dna and according to state law -- and there is a precedent setting case people versus rodgers in new york state, it says there is an innate privacy to someone's dna, a privacy right, and when you are arrested you get the mugshot, they take your fingerprints, but they can't take the dna because of that privacy right. so prosecutors have to go to a judge and ask for that swab of additional dna. that's what they have done. i want you to listen to what the suffolk county sheriff said last night on this issue to erin burnett. >> gathering his dna is

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CNN News Central

there are new developments in the gilgo beach murder investigation. a judge in new york just approved prosecutors' request for a dna swab from the suspected killer rex heuermann. and we have been following the story. judge approved the request and now what. >> reporter: the next step is that prosecutors will take that buccal swab from the defendant to get his actual dna. and the defense attorney must be present for that. now judge also appears to have set perimeters saying that that dna that you now collect could be compared to the hair that was found under the burlap of victim megan waterman's body. she was wrapped in the burlap. it could be used for comparison from the half eaten pizza crust that authorities say that rex heuermann deposited in a trash

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Erin Burnett OutFront

manhattan that prosecutors say matched a hair sample found on burlap that was used to transport the remains of one of heuermann's alleged victims. but in these court documents, they're saying without a direct sample of his dna, prosecutors might never be able to get this beyond any kind of a doubt. they might not be able to get total proof. how important is this dna, and do you think they'll be able to get it? >> first, thank you for having me on. gathering his dna is extremely important to this case. you know, clearly it's left in the hands of the judge to decide whether to go forward and get a dna swab or not. so that's where we have to wait and see what's going to happen with the judge's decision. >> do you have any doubt at this point that heuermann is the person behind these murders? >> from what the task force has gathered and what we have disc discussed, i have no doubt that

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CNN Newsroom Live

those victims is that they were tied with belts and duct tape, they were wrapped in burlap, and they were left on the gilgo beach. now, with karen vergata, as several other victims that were found in that gilgo beach long island area, they were dismembered and their body parts were found in separate and distinct locations. so the district attorney says this investigation is far from over. they will see where it leads. and we will follow it. jean casarez, cnn, new york. an orange county, california judge has been arrested in the fatal shooting of his wife. jeffrey ferguson was taken into custody thursday after police found his wife dead at their home with at least one gunshot wound. he was released on a $1 million bail on friday. the local district attorney's office says it's reviewing the arrest. no charges filed as of friday night. two more bodies were found friday in the rubble of a new jersey home that exploded the

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CNN This Morning Weekend

victims were found tied with belts, duct tape, rolled in burlap and karen vergata and several other victims in the gilgo beach long island area, they were dismembered and parts of their body were found in various locations. one thing we do know, the investigation is far from over and we will be continuing to see what happens. amara, victor. >> jean, thank you. the fbi is looking for victims after a woman in oregon, she made this terrifying escape. earlier this week a woman broke out of a make shift cinder block dungeon. she told the fbi she had been kidnapped in seattle on july 15th. a 29-year-old negasi zub eri wa arrested. he's been linked to several other violent assaults in four

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CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield

identification of this brand new victim. they will work this case just like they did with the gilgo four. with the charges rex heuermann is facing, the victims were found tied with belts, duct tape, rolled in burlap. karen and several other victims in the area were dismembered and parts of their bodies were found in various locations. the investigation is far from over and we will be continuing to see what happens. coming up, a major medical breakthrough. the fda just approved the very first pill to treat post partum depression. don't cha wish your phone was fun like this? ♪ don't cha wish your phone was fun like this? ♪ don't cha wishsh your phone looked more like this? ( ♪ ) don't cha wishsh your phone could flex like this?

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The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper

>> so there was one hair that was found on lauren. her legs were bound by a belt. there was a hair that was adhered to the belt. megan waterman, there were three hairs found on her. amber costello, there was a hair recovered from the burlap. >> ten years ago, the police actually used the nuclear dna analysis. they attempted to do it but it failed because they couldn't get enough information. >> would you say the new dna testing was a break in the case? >> clearly, the new testing was the biggest break in our case. we would not have been able to do this in 2010 because this technology wasn't available. >> while the 2022 task force investigation that ultimately led to rex heuermann's arrest was undeny bly exhausted. >> this was unprecedented. >> 16 years of evidence, cell

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CNN News Central

they got going with the new regime there in suffolk county in 2022. they found remains in fire island and also remains in the gilgo beach area, and so this appears as though the remains in both, and he did not specifically say, but it is sounding like a dismemberment or something so that there was dna in both of the areas. and looking at the modus operandi at this point of rex heuermann, he bound the victims in belts and duct tape and burlap and bound them. now, does this mean that he is completely excluded? that is why they did this extensive search in that home, and collected so many items and forensic tests there. she is not going to be excluded, but one thing is the power of the genetic genealogy, and you heard him talk about it, and after 27 years, they were able

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