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identified in gilgo beach. >> i can not describe to myself how bad it feels to be, you know, a family member of one of these girls that were found. >> kim overstreet's sister was one of the gilgo4, amber costello, last seen in 2010. >> she is my baby sister. it eats at me every day. >> like her sister kim worked as an escort. she believes amber was more vulnerable because of her struggles with addiction. >> by the time she was 16 years old to the day she went she was fighting it. so, she, she, you know, she had a, she had a hard life. she really did. >> cnn took kim to amber's home where she was last seen by friends. >> are you okay? >> yeah, it is . >> tell me what is going on. [crying] >> this was the last place she

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relationship. we were just two people who used to be in the same networking group. >> reporter: heuermann, seen here being transferred to the suffolk county correctional facility, has pleaded not guilty. charged with the murders of melissa barthelemy, megan waterman, and amber costello. >> the only thing i can tell you that he did say as he was in tears was "i didn't do this." >> reporter: the accused killer is scheduled to appear in court on august 1st. >> we're looking forward to fighting this case in a court of law, not in the court of press. >> reporter: when we return -- >> one of the smoking guns is he has some pizza. >> reporter: the groundbreaking dna technology that cracked the case. >> this was i think one of the first cases that were pursued using this technology.

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right here. who was it registered to? rex heuermann. okay. who's rex? they run him. no criminal record. well, what does rex look like? he's 6'4". he's 250 pounds. he wears big round glasses. he's got a mop of hair. he's got a green truck. >> i'm not sure when i exactly said that's our guy, but i will say this. when we were able to track back that green avalanche is when i was like okay, we're getting close. >> the car. >> the car. exactly. >> reporter: investigators kept digging. and they discovered that just like costello cell phone records from victims melissa barthelemy and megan waterman were contacted by burner phones in the hours before they disap disappeared. but it was the locations where those burner phones pinged that was most interesting. >> what they were able to do is narrow down the area where the

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him. >> 6'4", 250 pounds, a big mop of hair. giant 1970s type glasses. the witness said he was huge, he looked like an ogre. >> reporter: investigators also obtained costello's cell phone records, which revealed that a burner phone number contacted her that night, just before the client entered her home. the following night, on september 2nd, the same burner cell phone contacted costello again. shortly after, costello left her house, and a witness spotted a dark green-colored vehicle nearby. >> so the state police investigator started to work on the car, and she says i'm going to enter the search as a green pickup truck. and it comes back to chevy avalanche. it's in south carolina. registered to a guy. but it used to be registered

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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 that was 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. >> reporter: while the 2022 task force investigation that ultimately led to rex heuermann's arrest was undeniably exhaustive and detailed -- >> this kind of manhunt is pretty unprecedented. >> reporter: 16 months of surveillance, cell phone signals triangulated, security footage scanned, internet searches, e-mail accounts accessed, credit cards and travel records

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mack. >> and that to me was a suggestion that this police department was starting to get serious and that they were really rolling up their sleeves and going to work. >> reporter: the work continued into the next administration. in 2022 nypd veteran rodney harrison replaced hart as the new suffolk county police commissioner, and one of his first moves was to launch an interagency task force dedicated to solving the gilgo murders. >> when you took office, why was it so important for you to start this task force? >> i wanted to make sure that we're working with all of our law enforcement partners. the objective was to put a dragnet out there, see what we could do to see if we could get as many people to participate, reach out to their networks and see if we could get closer to identifying a subject. and it paid off. >> reporter: one of the first important leads that caught the attention of the new task force came from a witness who told investigators that the night before victim amber costello's disappearance a client arrived at her home and they described

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adhered to the belt. megan waterman, there were three hairs found on her. amber costello, there was a hair that was 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. >> reporter: while the 2022 task force investigation that ultimately led to rex heuermann's arrest was undeniably exhaustive and detailed -- >> this kind of manhunt is pretty unprecedented. >> reporter: 16 months of surveillance, cell phone signals triangulated, security footage scanned, internet searches, e-mail accounts accessed, credit card and travel records scoured. but experts agree that one tool tipped the scales.

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department was starting to get serious and that they were really rolling up their sleeves and getting to work. >> reporter: the work continued into the next administration. in 2022 nypd veteran rodney harrison replaced hart as the new suffolk county police commissioner, and one of his first moves was to launch an interagency task force dedicated to solving the gilgo murders. >> when you took office, why was it so important for you to start this task force? >> i wanted to make sure that we're working with all of our law enforcement partners. the objective was to put a dragnet out there, see what we could do to see if we could get as many people to participate, reach out to their networks and see if we could get closer to identifying a subject. and it paid off. >> reporter: one of the first important leads that caught the attention of the new task force came from a witness who told investigators that the night before victim amber costello's disappearance a client arrived at her home and they described

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