NY Attorney David Schwartz Talking About Rex Heuermann's Court Appearance on @CBSNewYork

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0:00 the giggle beach murder suspect is due 0:02 in court today where he's expected to be 0:04 hit with a fourth murder charge Rex hman 0:07 has already been charged with killing 0:09 three women whose bodies were found on 0:12 gilgal beach back in 2010 authorities 0:14 have said hman is also the prime suspect 0:17
in the killing of a fourth woman he is 0:20 pleaded not guilty and we are going to 0:22 dive into this a little more joining us 0:24 now is New York criminal defense 0:26 attorney and former prosecutor David 0:28
Schwarz to help put these new 0:30 developments into perspective welcome 0:32 thanks so much for joining us thanks for 0:34 having me so let's get right into it h 0:37 what's expected to happen today can you
0:40 walk us through the timeline of events 0:43 sure uh you know today is not going to 0:45 be that that big of a deal what they're 0:47 going to do is they're going to bring hu 0:49 uh hman into court uh this morning uh 0:52 hman is going to be uh arranged on the 0:55 fourth indictment uh he will probably 0:58 wave the reading of that indictment so 1:00 the whole indictment won't be read to 1:01 the court uh H hurman will uh plead not 1:05 guilty and uh baale will remain uh with 1:09 with no bail conditions and he'll be 1:11 remanded to the uh suffi County prison 1:14 so that that's really all that's going 1:16 to happen this morning uh the da may 1:18 give some facts in court I know the I 1:21 Know da Tierney is going to have a press 1:24 conference afterwards to talk about the 1:27 fourth uh Gilgo murder victim and David 1:30 the last time we heard from
1:32 investigators we were told that this 1:33 case was quote winding down can you take 1:36 us behind the scenes uh what has been 1:39 happening since then right well it was 1:42 the investigation for the first three so 1:45 so humman was uh indicted and remanded 1:48 for the first three murders they want 1:50 they they made the Strategic decision to 1:53 make the arrest at that moment in time 1:55 because they were already surveilling 1:57 him for about a year and uh they they 2:00 just didn't want anything to go wrong so 2:02 they made that arrest and in the 2:04 meantime they were investigating the 2:06 fourth murder and they were uh waiting 2:09 for the uh mitochondrial DNA analysis on 2:12 the fourth murder and this is a 2:14 scientific case this is a DNA case and 2:17 that's what da tyranny did there were no 2:20 eyewitnesses to this case so it's a
2:21 circumstantial case plus scientific 2:24 evidence okay so if Rex hman is indeed 2:27 charged with a fourth murder would that 2:30 change the case how would it change the 2:32 case well it it it makes the case you 2:36 know you have to prove each and every 2:37 element of each and every crime on each 2:40 and every murder so so it it makes the 2:44 case more complicated but actually you 2:47 know when you're when you're trying a 2:49 serial killer it it actually tightens up 2:52 the case in certain ways but in other 2:54 ways you still have to prove the 2:56 scientific evidence DNA is not a layup 2:58 everybody thinks DNA is a layup it's not 3:01 a layup because they didn't use nuclear 3:04 DNA which uh specifically points to a 3:07 particular person they used 3:09 mitochondrial da because DNA because of 3:12 13 years later all this time went by 3:15 which excludes 3:17 99.6% of the population so it's 3:20 scientific evidence plus circumstantial
3:22 evidence they have his truck they have 3:24 phone records they have uh all Ty all 3:28 types of other evidence that they're 3:30 going to piece this case together so I 3:31 expect this case to be a complicated 3:33 case and I expect to last a a good 3:36 amount of time a long time all right 3:38 David thank you so much for your 3:39 insights David Schwarz New York criminal 3:40 defense attorney former prosecutor 3:42
thanks for being here this morning thank 3:44 you