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The Depraved Nature Of Rex Heuermann's Google Search History · Beyond The Horizon

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome back to the program. According
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  Speaker 1: to authorities, Rex Ewerman was up to all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: funky stuff on the internet. And those activities included all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of Google searches for not only serial killers in
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  Speaker 1: the country or himself as far as the Gilgo Beach
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  Speaker 1: serial killer. But he was also looking up another man
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  Speaker 1: who was convicted of being a serial killer on Long Island.
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  Speaker 1: And that man is John Bittroff. And just a quick
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  Speaker 1: overview on John Bittroff. He's an American convicted murderer and
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  Speaker 1: former suspect in the Gilgo Beach serial killings case, which
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  Speaker 1: I'm not too sure if that's true. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if John Bittroff was ever really looked at, by the
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  Speaker 1: investigators anyway, as a suspect. However, the internet always tried
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  Speaker 1: to put John Bittroff in there as a possible for
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  Speaker 1: the Gilgo Beach serial killer. And I never thought that
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  Speaker 1: it fit with the two victims that he had that
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  Speaker 1: were confirmed. He had his DNA on those victims. So
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  Speaker 1: if that's the case and his DNA was found on
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  Speaker 1: those women, don't you think that his DNA would have
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  Speaker 1: been found on the Gilgo for? I mean, what did
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  Speaker 1: he become an expert in forensics all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: and stop leaving his DNA profile everywhere? I don't buy it.
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  Speaker 1: So there was a point in time where people on
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  Speaker 1: the internet certainly thought that Bitterolf was involved in the
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  Speaker 1: Gilgo Beach murders. In July of 2014, he was charged
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  Speaker 1: with the murder of Rita Tangretti and Colleen McNamee. He
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  Speaker 1: is also a suspect in the murder of a third woman,
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  Speaker 1: Sandra Castilla. Bitterolf became a suspect in the unsolved murders
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  Speaker 1: after his brother, Timothy, was partially matched to DNA found
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  Speaker 1: on the bodies in 2013. Timothy Bitteroff submitted the sample
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  Speaker 1: after violating an unrelated order of protection. On July 5th, 2017,
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  Speaker 1: Bitteroff was found guilty on the second-degree murders of Tangretti
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  Speaker 1: and McNamee. He was sentenced to 50 years to life
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  Speaker 1: in prison on September 12th, 2017. He is imprisoned at
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  Speaker 1: the Clinton Correctional Facility. His department identification number is 17A3925.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the man that Rex Heuermann was Googling.
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  Speaker 1: And the question now becomes, why was he Googling John Bitterolf?
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  Speaker 1: What was he looking for? Well, today we have an
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  Speaker 1: article from Patch.com. that came out, oh, a few days
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  Speaker 1: after Rex Uriman was arrested. But I've had this one
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  Speaker 1: bookmarked so that when we got to a point when
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  Speaker 1: there was a bit of a lull, we could go
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  Speaker 1: back and take a look at some of the Google
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  Speaker 1: searches that Rex Uriman was up to and the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he was looking for John Bitterolf during some of
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  Speaker 1: those Google searches. So let's get to it. Headline, convicted
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  Speaker 1: murderer was in Rex Uriman's Google sites, according to court documents.
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  Speaker 1: Though John Bitteroff is serving time upstate, his name was
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  Speaker 1: not forgotten by the Gilgo Beach slaying suspect court documents show.
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  Speaker 1: This article was authored by Peggy Spellman Huey. Of the
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  Speaker 1: more than 200 Google searches Rex Uriman conducted, one stood out,
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  Speaker 1: pointedly naming a Manorville man convicted in the cold case
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  Speaker 1: murders of two sex workers and later thought to be
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  Speaker 1: connected to the Gilgo Beach slayings himself. Before his arrest Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: Heuermann obsessively searched for information on the Gilgo case, authorities said.
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  Speaker 1: And this is something that you see very often with
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  Speaker 1: serial killers. You know that guys like Ted Bundy would
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  Speaker 1: go back to the scene of the crime. He'd bury
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  Speaker 1: girls and then go back and do very disgusting things
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  Speaker 1: to their remains. Gary Ridgway, another one. He said that
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  Speaker 1: he loved going by the sites where he dumped women.
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  Speaker 1: And it goes on and on and on and on.
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  Speaker 1: Guys like Ed Kemper have said the same thing. So
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  Speaker 1: when you're talking about somebody with this sort of psychopathy,
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  Speaker 1: this is certainly one of the things that they're into.
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  Speaker 1: Following along with the investigation, seeing where things stand, and
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  Speaker 1: seeing how the misery unfolds. The 59-year-old architect with a
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  Speaker 1: penchant for furniture making posed questions asking the search engine
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  Speaker 1: why the killer hasn't been caught and why law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: could not trace the calls made by the Long Island
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  Speaker 1: serial killer. And since he was in Manhattan when he
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  Speaker 1: made those calls around so many people, it was very,
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  Speaker 1: very difficult for them, if not impossible, to get a
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  Speaker 1: lock on the phone number that was calling and then
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  Speaker 1: to find out where that phone was calling from. You're
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  Speaker 1: talking needle in a haystack. His searches between March 2022
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  Speaker 1: and June 2023 were related to active and known serial killers,
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  Speaker 1: the specific disappearances and murders of Maureen Brainerd Barnes, Melissa Bartholomew,
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  Speaker 1: Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello, and the investigation into their murders.
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  Speaker 1: Chief Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Alan Bode wrote, in the
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  Speaker 1: request for remanding him without bail. And keep in mind,
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  Speaker 1: we're only getting the Google searches that relate directly to
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  Speaker 1: the charges that we're seeing against Rex Heuermann. There's no
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  Speaker 1: way that these are all the Google searches that he
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  Speaker 1: was getting up to. All these years? You mean to
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  Speaker 1: tell me that's it? No freaking way. So this guy
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  Speaker 1: was definitely getting up to more. And if he was
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  Speaker 1: looking at these victims, maybe, just maybe, he was keeping
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  Speaker 1: track of some of the other people that we don't
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  Speaker 1: know about that he killed. And if so, hopefully, the
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  Speaker 1: authorities will be able to tag him with those murders.
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  Speaker 1: And if he was searching for specific people, that's going
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  Speaker 1: to make their job a whole lot easier. Heuermann not
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  Speaker 1: only typed in the names of Waterman, Bartholomew, and Brainerd Barnes,
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  Speaker 1: he searched for the family members of Bartholomew and Waterman. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what kind of sick, degenerate bastard is looking for the
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  Speaker 1: family members of somebody that they just killed? Now, we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about a serious, serious nutjob here. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: is the kind of thing that you would see in, like,
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  Speaker 1: a very disturbing movie about serial killers. But then you
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  Speaker 1: realize that everything you see in a movie about serial killers, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's ripped from real life. And these monsters truly are
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  Speaker 1: walking amongst us. One name stood out on the list
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  Speaker 1: of searches, the partially misspelled name of convicted murderer John
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  Speaker 1: Bitteroth as John Bitteroth. And then here were some of
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  Speaker 1: the searches. One, why could law enforcement not trace the
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  Speaker 1: calls made by the Long Island serial killer? Two, Why
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  Speaker 1: hasn't the Long Island serial killer been caught? 3. Long
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  Speaker 1: Island serial killer 4. Long Island serial killer phone call 5.
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  Speaker 1: Long Island serial killer update 6. Long Island serial killer
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  Speaker 1: update 2022 7. FBI active serial killers 8. Serial killers
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  Speaker 1: by state 2023 9. Map of all known serial killers 10.
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  Speaker 1: Unsolved serial killer cases 11. America's five most notorious old cases. 12.
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  Speaker 1: 11 currently active serial killers. 13. Eight terrifying active serial
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  Speaker 1: killers we can't find. 14. John Bittroff. 15. Megan Waterman. 16.
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  Speaker 1: Melissa Bartholomew. 17. Maureen Brainerd Barnes. 18. Redacted. Name of
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  Speaker 1: relative of Melissa Bartholomew. 19. Redacted. Name of relative of
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  Speaker 1: Megan Waterman. 20. Cops launch Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation Task Force. 21.
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  Speaker 1: Mapping the Long Island murder victims. 22. Inside the Long
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  Speaker 1: Island serial killer and Gilgo Beach. 23. The Gilgo Beach killer,
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  Speaker 1: criminal minds. 24. In the Long Island serial killer investigation,
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  Speaker 1: new phone technology may be the key to break in
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  Speaker 1: the case. So this guy... was Googling all of this,
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  Speaker 1: and little did he know that it would be the
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  Speaker 1: phone technology that would come back to slap him directly
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  Speaker 1: in his big-ass ogre head. Bittroff, a 57-year-old former carpenter,
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  Speaker 1: was convicted six years ago of two counts of second-degree
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  Speaker 1: murder in the killings of Rita Tangretti, 31, of each Pachogi,
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  Speaker 1: and Colleen McNamee, 20, of Holbrook. Bittroff is serving a
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  Speaker 1: 50-year-to-life prison sentence upstate at Clinton Correctional Facility, according to
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  Speaker 1: the state's Department of Correctional Services. Tangretti's body was found
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  Speaker 1: in 1993 in a wooded area off the Esplanade Drive
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  Speaker 1: in East Patchogue and McNamee the following year in 1994
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  Speaker 1: in a wooded area south of the Long Island Expressway
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  Speaker 1: in Shirley, prosecutors said. Both of the naked and mutilated
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  Speaker 1: women were strangled and suffered blunt force trauma to their heads,
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  Speaker 1: according to the prosecutors. And it never really added up
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  Speaker 1: with the Gilgo Beach killings. I never thought that Bitteroff
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  Speaker 1: was even a suspect, honestly. All of the people that
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  Speaker 1: were talked about, from him to Brewer to Hackett, I
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  Speaker 1: never found any of them to be compelling as the
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  Speaker 1: person who was going to end up being the Long
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  Speaker 1: Island serial killer. After the verdict came in, then Suffolk
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  Speaker 1: District Attorney Thomas Spoda said, the families of these women
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  Speaker 1: have been through an agonizing, long wait for justice, and
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  Speaker 1: during the trial, they had to endure graphic testimony about
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  Speaker 1: the death and of their loved one. And that is
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  Speaker 1: really something that's going to be just beyond the pale
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  Speaker 1: when we're talking about Rex Uerman and his trial, especially
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  Speaker 1: if they tag other bodies to him. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a very, very hard process for these families to
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  Speaker 1: relive all of that. We hope the verdict today gives
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  Speaker 1: them some semblance of peace, he said. Bitterolf would have
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  Speaker 1: been around 27 at the time of the murders. He
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  Speaker 1: was tracked down by DNA evidence linked to his brother,
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  Speaker 1: who got a traffic ticket. After bitter of sentencing, Assistant
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  Speaker 1: District Attorney Robert Biancavilla told reporters that he might be
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  Speaker 1: connected to the death of at least one of the
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  Speaker 1: 10 people found buried at Gilgo Beach. CBS News reported.
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  Speaker 1: Bianca Villa said that the remains of some of the
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  Speaker 1: victims may be attributed to the handiwork of Mr. Bitterolf
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  Speaker 1: and that the investigation was ongoing, according to the outlet.
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  Speaker 1: Patches reached out for comment to attorney Jonathan Manley, who
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  Speaker 1: represented Bitterolf in his trial. In response to Bianca Villa's comment,
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  Speaker 1: Manley said that prosecutors never mentioned any connection between Bitterolf
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  Speaker 1: and the Gilgo Beach throughout the trial, Fox News reported.
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  Speaker 1: So if they had any goods on them, they would
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  Speaker 1: have tagged them with it, right? They're trying to clear
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  Speaker 1: those cases. The last thing they want to do is
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  Speaker 1: have a bunch of cold cases on their hands. So
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  Speaker 1: if they could tag them to some serial killer, so
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  Speaker 1: much the better. But they weren't able to do that.
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  Speaker 1: And that's because the evidence wasn't there to connect Bitterolf
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  Speaker 1: to these other bodies. This was never mentioned before, Manley
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  Speaker 1: told the outlet. This is a serious accusation with absolutely
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  Speaker 1: no factual basis. Mr. Bitterolf maintains his innocence in the
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  Speaker 1: deaths of Miss Tangretti and Miss McNamee, and any insinuation
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  Speaker 1: that he had anything to do with the Gilgo killings
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  Speaker 1: is laughable and meant simply to attract headlines. Biancavilla will
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  Speaker 1: significantly impede the prosecution by immediately creating reasonable doubt whenever
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  Speaker 1: the killer or killers are apprehended, Manley told the outlet.
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  Speaker 1: And look, there's no doubt that Heuermann's lawyers are going
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  Speaker 1: to look to utilize all of this. When we talk
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  Speaker 1: about loopholes and technicalities, Rex Uerman is exactly the kind
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  Speaker 1: of guy that's going to try and utilize that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: The searches of Uerman, who told an interviewer last year
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  Speaker 1: that he practices in his father's workshop, included phrases like
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  Speaker 1: Long Island Killer and touched on the phone call made
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  Speaker 1: updates and used phrases like FBI Active Serial Killers, Serial
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  Speaker 1: Killers by State 2023, Map of All Known Serial Killers,
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  Speaker 1: and unsolved serial killer cases. He also queried America's five
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  Speaker 1: most notorious old cases, 11 currently active serial killers, and
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  Speaker 1: eight terrifying active serial killers we can't find. He also
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  Speaker 1: searched news articles like Cops Launch Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation
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  Speaker 1: Task Force, Mapping the Long Island Murder Victims, and Inside
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  Speaker 1: the Long Island Serial Killer and Gilgo Beach. Other articles
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  Speaker 1: included the Gilgo Beach Killer, Criminal Minds, and in Long
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  Speaker 1: Island Serial Killer Investigation, new phone technology may be key
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  Speaker 1: to break the case. His other Google searches centered on
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  Speaker 1: sadomasochistic and fetish pornography that involved the beating and rape
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  Speaker 1: of young girls and women. Heuermann was charged with three counts,
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  Speaker 1: each of first and second degree murder, in the deaths
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  Speaker 1: of Waterman, Bartholomew, and Costello. Suffolk District Attorney Ray Tierney
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  Speaker 1: said Friday that he remains a prime suspect in the
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  Speaker 1: death of Brainerd Barnes. In his request for no bail,
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  Speaker 1: Bodie said it was based on the serious, heinous nature
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  Speaker 1: of these serial murders and the only way to ensure
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  Speaker 1: his return to court. Huerman, who is on suicide watch,
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  Speaker 1: remains in the custody of the Suffolk County Sheriff's Office,
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  Speaker 1: a spokeswoman said. And I think that when all is
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  Speaker 1: said and done here and the investigation moves into the
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  Speaker 1: next phase, we're going to learn that these Google searches
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  Speaker 1: were a treasure trove of information for the investigators. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm very interested to see what else this sick piece
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  Speaker 1: of shit was looking for. All right, folks, that's going
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  Speaker 1: to do it for this one. All of the information
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