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Jean casarez has more. >> reporter: a new look at the house that accused serial killer rex heuermann shared with his wife and children. as police wrap up their search of the home after 12 days. >> we won't know exactly what we have for quite some time because just given the shear volume of evidence that was taken. >> reporter: the suffolk county district attorney saying that the house was very cluttered and the work ahead is going to be an enormous undertaking. >> a 13-year-old cold case doesn't get solved in a matter of week or days. >> reporter: the district attorney says investigators colle...
Packing up at the home, a lot of analysis of trace evidence is still to come, and heuermann is set to appear back in court one week from today. >> sandra: nate foy with the update from massapequa park. thank you. john. >> john: the son of nba superstar lebron james is recovering in a hospital after he went into cardiac arrest during a basketball workout yesterday. according to a spokesperson for the james family, the 18-year-old is out of the intensive care unit and in stable condition. matt finn is live in los angeles with more on this. this is a real shock, matt. >> right now, tmz sports is ...
Fascinating they are also using the victim's own cell phone data, mainly the cell phone towers, where it pinged, and they were able to essentially re-trace the victim's steps, according to investigators. and that cell phone tower data tells them that all or some of the victims were making their way to the suspect's home in massapequa park, long island. so when you look back at all of this data, it essentially tells investigators, at this point, that those victims were pretty much lured to their deaths at that home. again, this is still very much a working theory. very much an ongoing investiga...
First there is the inventory of the house. what are the items there? what can the family identify of personal kinds of items that, yes, that was definitely ours, that belongs to our daughter, t to, items they will haveshow to the victims' fa, saying can you say that this hair ba ret, or this scrunchy or this watch or this bracelet, is that something you know that belonged to your sister, your daughter, to see if they can positively identify those trophies from the victims on-site. if they're there. the second piece is the scientific part that you mentioned, which is, fred, is there trace evide...