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Gilgo Beach murders: Police finish search at Rex Heuermann's Long Island home

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Authorities have concluded their search at the "cluttered" house belonging to Gilgo Beach, New York, murder suspect Rex Heuermann. Authorities have concluded their search at the "cluttered" house belonging to Gilgo Beach, New York, murder suspect Rex Heuermann, authorities said Tuesday. Investigators "obtained a massive amount of material" at the suburban Massapequa Park, Long Island, home and will now sift through the evidence, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said, though he did not elaborate on what was seized. Authorities continue to work at the home of suspect Rex Heuermann in Massapequa Park, N.Y., July 24, 2023. Heuermann has been charged with killing at least three women in the long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings. Seth Wenig/AP MORE: Gilgo Beach murders: Police searching suspect's walk-in vault Authorities have still not ruled in or ruled out whether any alleged victims were killed at Heuermann's house, T...

4 Oregon murders now believed to be linked, DA says

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A month after Portland officials warned the public about speculating against a serial killer, they are now saying a series of recent slayings are connected. More than a month after the Portland police spoke out against online speculation about a possible serial killer in the Pacific Northwest, investigators are now saying that four recent Mysterious deaths of women in the area are linked . Kristin Smith, Charity Perry, Bridget Webster and Ashley Real were all found dead this year between February and May in different locations throughout Oregon, investigators said. Clockwise from top left, Kristin Smith, Charity Perry, Ashley Real, and Bridget Webster. Authorities in Oregon believe the deaths of these four women in 2023 are connected. Multnomah County District Attorney's office The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday they have collected information from various law enforcement offices in Oregon to determine the homicides are now linked to a person of inter...

Idaho murders: Suspect was identified through DNA using genealogy databases, police say

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The suspect accused of murdering four University of Idaho students in November was identified through DNA using public genealogy databases. Police identified Bryan Christopher Kohberger as the suspect accused of murder ing four University of Idaho students in November through DNA using public genealogy databases , law enforcement sources told ABC News. Local police and the FBI tracked him to Pennsylvania through his vehicle. The FBI surveyed the house in the Pocono Mountains for four days prior to the arrest. The 28-year-old was arrested Friday morning for the murders of roommates Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; and Xana Kernodle, 20 as well as Kernodle's boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20. MORE: Idaho murders: 28-year-old PhD grad student arrested in Pennsylvania Kohberger is a graduate student at Washington State University, located less than 10 miles away from the University of Idaho, Moscow Police Chief James Fry said at a Friday news conference. The murder weapon has not b...

Idaho murders suspect became 'a little bit more disheveled' around time of killings, student says

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The suspect in the Idaho college student murders looked "a little bit more disheveled" around time of the incident, a recent student said. As pictures of Bryan Kohberger, the suspect in the murder s of four University of Idaho student s, were published in the media, Hayden Stinchfield thought he looked familiar. The man in the mug shot looked just like a teaching assistant for Stinchfield's criminal law class last semester at Washington State University, he told "Good Morning America." "Initially, I didn't believe it," Stinchfield said. "Like, I had to go double check, you know, with the names and everything, because I saw Bryan when I saw the picture -- and I was, like, all right, that looks like my T.A." This photo provided by Monroe County (Pa.) Correctional Facility shows Bryan Kohberger. Arrest paperwork filed by Pennsylvania State Police in Monroe County Court, on Dec. 30, 2022, said Kohberger, 28, was being held for extradition i...

Idaho murders: Bodycam shows moment Indiana police pulled over suspect Bryan Kohberger in white Elantra

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Body camera shows the moment the Indiana State Police unknowingly pulled over the University of Idaho murders suspect as he drove cross-country after the crimes. Newly obtained body camera video shows the moment the Indiana State Police unknowingly pulled over the suspect in the University of Idaho murder s as he drove cross-country after the crimes. Bryan Kohberger, 28, was a Ph.D. student in Washington State University's department of criminal justice and criminology at the time of the murders. Washington State is less than 10 miles away from Moscow, Idaho, where four University of Idaho college students were murdered. Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students, is escorted to an extradition hearing at the Monroe County Courthouse in Stroudsburg, Pa., Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. Matt Rourke/AP, Pool MORE: Idaho murders: Suspect Bryan Kohberger agrees to extradition, mouths 'I love you' to family After Kohberger's semester ended this...

Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger wrote about 'delusions of grandeur' in online forum

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University of Idaho quadruple murder suspect Bryan Kohberger posted in an online forum years ago that he had "crazy thoughts." University of Idaho quadruple murder suspect Bryan Kohberger allegedly posted in an online forum years ago that he had "crazy thoughts" and " delusions of grandeur ." The New York Times reported on Jan. 13 that Kohberger, 28, allegedly posted on an online message board devoted to a condition called visual snow syndrome, a disorder that causes someone to see static. Between Nov. 6, 2009, and Feb. 20, 2012, while Kohberger was a teenager, he allegedly made 118 posts on the forum under the username "exarr." Bryan Kohberger who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, looks toward his attorney, public defender Anne Taylor, right, during a hearing in Latah County District Court, Jan. 5, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. Ted S. Warren/AP MORE: Idaho murders: Judge delays suspect Bryan Kohberger'...

Idaho murders: Police bringing cleaning crew to crime scene

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Police in Moscow, Idaho, say they're sending in a cleaning crew to the house where four University of Idaho students were Mysterious ly murdered. Police in Moscow, Idaho, say they're sending in a cleaning crew to the house where four University of Idaho students were Mysterious ly murdered. "Starting Friday morning we're going to be bringing in a professional cleaning crew to go to the residence," Moscow Police Chief James Fry said in a video statement Thursday. "Part of the reason we're doing that is because of the biohazards, as well as chemicals that were used during the investigation." A Moscow police officer stands guard in his vehicle, Nov. 29, 2022, at the home where four University of Idaho students were found dead on Nov. 13, 2022 in Moscow, Idaho. Ted S. Warren/AP, FILE Moscow Police monitor the residence where four University of Idaho students were killed in Moscow, Idaho, Nov. 30, 2022. Lindsey Wasson/Reuters, FILE MORE: Idaho murd...

Idaho murders: Everybody can hear each others' footsteps in 'creaky' house, former resident says

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A University of Idaho graduate who previously lived in the off-campus house where four students were killed is speaking out to ABC News. A University of Idaho graduate who previously lived in the off-campus house where four students were killed is speaking out to ABC News. "It's definitely an old, creaky house ," said Cole Alteneder, who graduated in 2022 and lived in the house during his junior year. "You can't walk up any of the stairs or on any of the floors without everybody in the house knowing it." Moscow Police monitor the residence where four University of Idaho students were killed in Moscow, Idaho, Nov. 30, 2022. Lindsey Wasson/Reuters, FILE MORE: Parents of slain Idaho student desperate for answers: 'Where are you? Who are you?' Three of the current residents -- roommates Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen and Xana Kernodle -- as well as Kernodle's boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, were all stabbed to death in the house in the early hours...

Idaho murders: Person in white car spotted on video has 'critical' information, police say

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Police investigating the University of Idaho murders are "confident" that the person in a white Hyundai Elantra spotted near the crime scene has "critical" information. Police investigating the mysterious murders of four University of Idaho students say they're "confident" that the person or persons in a white Hyundai Elantra spotted near the crime scene has "information that is critical" to the case. Authorities announced on Dec. 7 that they're looking to speak with the occupant or occupants of a white 2011-2013 Hyundai Elantra that was in the "immediate area" of the victims' house in Moscow in the early hours of Nov. 13, when the crimes occurred. Police said they're investigating this surveillance video from a Moscow gas station that shows the white car that morning. Police are investigating the surveillance photo of a white car that was seen in surveillance video at approx. 3:45am in Moscow, Idaho on the morning ...