New developments in the so-called
go go beach serial murders.
Police in Suffolk
County are re-interviewing
two women
after discovering that serial killer
suspect Rex Harmon
propositioned them several years ago.
It comes as we're learning
more about him and his life behind bars.
The Suffolk County
Jail has taken extra precautions
to house him,
including installing more cameras
near his cell.
They say they have him
under 20 47 monitoring.
Extra personnel
also have been assigned to him
because of this 6466 foot six I'm
sorry, and roughly £275 suspect size.
And the charges
he is accused of,
they include killing Melissa Barthelemy
and Waterman
and Amber Costello
stuffing their bodies into burlap sacks.
He's also the main suspect
in a fourth murder,
Maureen Brainerd Barnes.
Jean Casarez is OUTFRONT
as the
investigation into
the Jill Go beach serial killing
suspect continues.
More people
coming forward
to talk about their interactions
with Rex Human
I had a really, really bad
feeling, like my gut was like
telling me
I needed to get away from them.
Nikki Brass telling Good Morning America.
Human solicited her online in 2015
when she worked as an escort
and that he talked about the GilGil
Beach murders.
When he talked about it,
he would like
speaking a day and hypothetical
But he had this smile on his face
that made me really uneasy.
And like he just glossed over
look in his eye
The investigation now spans the country.
Authorities in South
Carolina searching
property owned by human
for any evidence to link
the 59 year old architect
to the murder of three young women
in New York in 2009 and 2010.
Sources tell CNN a Chevy Avalanche
was seized from the property
and is being combed for evidence.
There were SWAT team.
The FBI was all kind of stuff.
Those living
next to the property were stunned
We have adjoining property
to a serial killer,
which is like,
you know,
that's like
I never put that on my bucket list.
And over 2000 miles away in Las Vegas,
Law enforcement
officials tell CNN
they are looking at cold case homicides
to see if there could be any links,
according to property records
obtained by CNN.
Human and his wife purchased
two timeshare condos in Las Vegas in 2003
and 2005
on Long Island,
where Human lived crime scene
investigators continue to collect
and process potential evidence
from inside his home
and his nearby storage unit.
Also, searching for possible connections
to remains of eight
other people found along that beach.
Does it tie into any other victims,
any other victims
that we may not even know
where the bodies are?
You know,
people
who have been reported
missing human remains in jail on routine
COVID restriction
protocols and suicide watch.
Law enforcement
tells CNN he isn't talking and has had
no visitors
and wrecks.
Human has pleaded not guilty.
His attorneys
saying that this is a circumstantial case
and it is weak.
I spoke with an attorney
this afternoon, John Wray,
and he is working with representing
two other families of other victims
that were found in the vicinity.
They're not part of the charges
now against Schulman,
but he says these families are on edge.
They are just waiting
and wanting
to know what the truth is here.
And he says it's justice for the victims,
but it's a mercy for these families
that have had to linger for so long,
not knowing what the truth was. Right.
And of course, we'll see.
You know,
they're saying in three cases
could, of course, be
many, many more, as you point out.
Jane, thank you very much.
And joining me
now, the Suffolk County
District Attorney Ray Tierney
and district attorney,
I appreciate your time.
You know,
people are coming forward to escorts.
Among them
who interacted with Rex Horman.
They did not go home with him.
Are any of these new tips leading you
to more victims, to more
leads in this case?
Thanks for having the Erin.
I think that,
you know, this investigation has has
entered into a new phase.
Previously, we had been doing
a grand jury investigation,
which is which was secret,
which we were deliberately
trying to obscure from the target.
Now that we've arrested him and executed
these search warrants,
it's a new phase and it's an overt phase.
So we execute the search warrants.
We're going
to have to go through that evidence,
but we're also going to have to interview
a great number of people,
which we'll be doing over the course
of the next couple of days.
So you're going to do that
over the next couple of days.
So moving quickly on that front.
Absolutely. Okay.
So I know you said at the arraignment
from what you knew
then that he had, quote,
a lot of torture
porn depictions of women
being abused, raped,
even killed in his possession.
What can you tell me,
district attorney, about some of the
other evidence that you found
So, you know, we've we've
executed, as your report indicates,
a great number
of search warrants
over a great many different places.
And where
we're looking for everything
from, you know, large items to, you know,
molecular items like blood, DNA, trace
evidence, hair.
So what's happening
is our
our criminal criminologist
from the Suffolk
County Crime
Lab are going through each of these areas
literally inch by inch by inch
to try to obtain
as much evidence as possible.
This is a painstaking process.
It is a long process.
And we're going to let that play out.
We're going to inventory
all that evidence.
We're going to analyze it,
and then we'll be able to talk about.
So are you able to share
any more about
what was found in his actual home?
I mean, you know,
people are now understanding
right in the Carolinas,
there were multiple places
searched but in the vault in his home,
we know that there were guns.
There were reports out today
that suggest other evidence
found in his home,
maybe a handcuff keys or stained t shirt.
I mean, things that could obviously
lead people's minds in obvious
and horrific directions.
Can you confirm any of that?
Well, you know, when we
execute the search warrant
and one of the reasons
why we didn't
want to
arrest the defendant at his home
is because we knew he had
permits for 92 handguns
so we knew he had access to
a large number of guns.
We executed the search warrant.
Certainly, that has been borne out.
So we're going to inventory those guns.
And you know, we'll
we'll provide the information
once it's concluded.
But again, you know, once you get some
you get an item of evidence,
you're going to swab it
see if you can get blood, saliva, hair,
DNA, all of these things.
It takes time.
So, you know,
as as a as a
as an investigator
and as a as a prosecutor, you don't
you don't let out information piecemeal.
You would you investigate
and then you provide
your findings in court
like we did at the arraignment.
So so can I just ask a question
just in terms of when you got
you started this,
you were doing
the grand jury didn't want him to know
Were you sort of observing him
during that time, watching
how he behaved?
Did you see anything or was it
or did it
shock you
with its apparent normalcy, given what
you believe?
You have proof he did?
No, nothing.
Nothing really doing this,
nothing really shocks you.
I think it was pretty clear
we did surveil him.
We did physical surveillance
and otherwise surveilled him.
And, you know, from our observations
and our investigation,
it was pretty clear
that this defendant
was living a double life,
you know, a part of his life that he
presented to the public and a
part of his life
that that he very much kept in.
And one final question.
District attorney,
do you believe that there will be
you will be able to link him
to multiple more of these killings right.
Of these of these women?
And I know, of course, at least one man,
but whose bodies were found
all in that area of Cocoa Beach.
So I came in office in January of 2022.
Yep.
We started the task force
in February of 2022.
Rex Zimmerman
was identified
as a target from Mark up on March 14th,
six weeks later.
And we've been off
and running ever since then.
We're continuing to accumulate evidence
through the grand
jury with regard
to the four women
who were known as the guilt go for.
We've we've charged
three of those murders.
We're going to continue to work
those murders.
We're going to continue to evaluate
all the evidence in this case.
And then beyond that,
we're going to expand our investigation
into the other bodies on Gilbert Beach.
It doesn't matter what I think.
It matters what I can prove.
And after we're done with this exhaustive
investigation,
I'll have more information for everyone.
All right.
Well, district attorney,
I appreciate your time.
Thank you very much. Thank you, Erin.