Who Was Rex Heuermann Before They Found the Bodies?
A 62-year-old architect from Massapequa Park who commuted to Manhattan, raised a family, and built a client list that included Nike and American Airlines. Inside his childhood home: nearly 300 guns, a...
13 Apr 28min
Why Nobody Searched Ocean Parkway for 18 Months
A 15-mile barrier island highway built in the 1930s became a serial killer's dumping ground. Dense brush, no cameras, no streetlights, and fewer than 250 year round residents made Ocean Parkway the pl...
13 Apr 21min
Sandra Costilla: The First Victim Nobody Knew About
Sandra Costilla was 28, from Trinidad and Tobago, and the mother of a 5 year old son when she was strangled in November 1993. She is the earliest known victim, killed three decades before DNA connecte...
13 Apr 20min
27 Years as Jane Doe No. 7: Karen Vergata's Story
For 27 years she was known only as Fire Island Jane Doe. Karen Vergata was 34, from Hell's Kitchen, survived by two sons who were adopted before her death. No missing person report was ever filed. All...
13 Apr 15min
Two Women Dismembered, Found in Two Locations
Both women were dismembered. Both had remains found in two locations: inland Manorville and coastal Gilgo Beach. The geographic shift reveals a killer who recalibrated his methods after a hunter's dog...
13 Apr 22min
The Phone Calls to Melissa Barthelemy's 15-Year-Old Sister
After Melissa Barthelemy disappeared, her 15 year old sister began receiving phone calls from a man using Melissa's cellphone. He taunted the family and said he was watching the body rot. The calls tr...
13 Apr 18min
Megan Waterman Left the Holiday Inn at 1:30 AM
Megan Waterman was 22, from Scarborough, Maine, and the mother of a 4 year old daughter she called three times a day. She traveled by bus to New York, checked into a Holiday Inn, and was last seen lea...
13 Apr 18min
The Roommate Who Saw the Gilgo Beach Killer's Face
Amber Costello's roommate Dave Schaller came face to face with the killer and described him as an ogre driving a green Chevrolet Avalanche. He gave that description to police in 2010. The tip sat in f...
13 Apr 16min
