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We have exclusive new details tonight as the Gilgo Beach murder investigation expands far beyond New York. The turn to terror team has learned there are several cold cases in the Las Vegas area that bear similarities to the killings that played out here on Long Island and now detectives are reviewing them for connections to Rex Huberman. Our senior reporter, Terra Rosenblum has the story. You'll see only on 12. We already know Rex Serman is charged with the murders of three women and is a prime suspect in the death of 1/4 Gilgo Beach victim. But now we're also gaining crucial insight into the investigation ramping up thousands of miles away in Las Vegas. They're accessing every piece of evidence. Every one of those is going to be examined with a fine toothed comb. In his first interview since he's bomb, Shell Raz, a three decade veteran of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department reveals the chilling reason. The suspected serial killer is also being investigated for possible ties to a string of unsolved murders that he probed as a detective in the cold case unit until his retirement two months ago, I can just say that there are similar circumstances between these three murder victims. They were sex workers and they disappeared and they were found out in the Ramos told me three cases he knows of have similar methodology to the Gilgo Beach murders. Two of them played out in Las Vegas, the other in southern California on the road to Los Angeles. Similar to the remote highway where victims were discovered back here at home on Long Island. There are some pretty detailed ways that these young ladies were killed out here. The women he wouldn't name disappeared between 2003 and 2006. And we can prove that he was likely in the area during at least a portion of that time, property records obtained by the turn to Tara team show the successful architect bought a timeshare in Las Vegas in 2004 at Windham vacation resorts that he later sold for $51,000 in 2013. And public documents also show he still owns another time share here at club. So a few off the strip purchased back on April 23rd, 2005. A date that could prove significant because only two weeks later, a 21 year old escort who reportedly advertised on Craigslist vanished from nearby Henderson and was discovered dead later that month in Illinois, a spokesperson for the family of Lindsay, Marie Harris told me her parents are asking for privacy and that any speculation, the link to Rex Huberman is premature but added, they are confident police will leave no stone unturned over the phone. The president of the Police Union, Steve grams. A New York native confirmed that to be true. Telling me a team of detectives are meticulously combing through decades of evidence searching for a link. It's all going to boil down to. Is there DNA available to be processed on the victim's side from the crime scene? A process Ramos said came close to happening just months before he man's arrest shocked the world. I was actually looking at about a year ago at, at the cases that you have back there. And I thought, you know what, let me put a call back to New York and see if we have any similarities on it. But it really piqued my interest. He has no regrets. Just hope that the investigations he set in motion two decades ago will ultimately result in justice for the families of the murdered Las Vegas women. Tara Rosenblum News 12.

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Tonight, the turn to terror team has learned there are even more victims cases being probed for possible connections to suspected serial killer, Rex Huberman. Our senior reporter Tara Rosenblum has the exclusive information and reaction from family. What I miss the most about Jessie is uh oh, a sense of humor. She loved to dance, joke around play pranks. A mother and daughter tightly embraced. Now, just a fading memory. I didn't get to see a 30 40 year old Jessie. You know, I don't know what kind of a woman she would have been. Glenda Grant has been looking for her second oldest child, Jessie Foster since March of 2006. You're seeing 17.5 years of coping mechanisms. The 21 year old Canadian woman disappeared after her mom says she was sexually trafficked throughout New York and New Jersey then ultimately lured to Las Vegas where she was last seen alive. Following several prostitution arrests. We know that Jesse had been beaten, that Jessie was being forced into it. Now 17 years later, the bombshell arrest of suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer, Rex Timan has brought her daughter's cold case back into focus as police agencies in three states hunt for more possible victims. I just hope that they get all the evidence they need and put him where he belongs. Jesse is one of five escorts in the Vegas area between the ages of 18 and 25 who all shared the same fate discovered either dead or missing between 2003 and 2006. Under similarly suspicious circumstances. Four of them dumped off remote roadways, several of them wrapped in cloth, which is why detectives have long suspected that they could have been killed by the same person. The question now, could that person be Rex? Heman police are staying tight lipped as they actively through the evidence. But here's what we know right now, property records place your in the Vegas area through the ownership of two times shares dating back to 2004. We also received several of the Vegas victims autopsy reports through a freedom of information request and compared them to records we obtained for the Gilgo Beach victims. They show Victoria Kamara's death was the result of strangulation just like the Gilgo four while the severed legs of another young victim, Lindsay Marie Harris was discovered in similar circumstances to Fire Island. Jane Doe seven identified just last week as Karen Verda, what's more harris' dismembered body was found in Springfield Illinois. A location mentioned on page 17 of Hu's bail application which states the alleged serial killer set up a Tinder account using the email Springfield man. As for Jessie's mother, she sees striking similarities between Harris, her daughter and the other escort slain on Long Island. And I think she looks quite a lot like Megan Laman. Um, the beautiful blonde hair, but regardless of whether or not human turns out to be her daughter's killer, Glenda Grant says she's just grateful to have Jessie's cold case back in the spotlight. I'm grateful to every single, every single one of you Tara Rosenbloom News 12. And if you have a lead you want Tara to look into regarding the Gilgo Beach murder investigation. Head to the feature section of news 12 dot com and click on the turn to Tara Tab.

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Jodi Marie Brewer disappeared from Las Vegas 20 years ago on Aug. 14, 2003, when she was 19. 

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Today's weather looks good. Another calm day Hoboken, you'll notice temperatures into the forties. Much more seasonal feel. The clouds also passing and not much expected as far as things coming out from the sky that will change come tomorrow with some windswept flurries also heading into Thursday as well, but significant sharp cold front with the potential for some widespread rain. Late Sunday is also on tap for us this week, gust forecast tomorrow look like this out of the north. That's going to continue to filter in that colder drier air across the region for tomorrow at times, gusting upwards of 2030 mile per hour range. It's just going to add on to that cold feel, especially for Thursday morning. Some clouds right now, that's what we're noticing and far off to our west. We're tracking this system here that's bringing a lot of snow across Pittsburgh, eventually our neighbors in Pennsylvania and that will be adding on to the woods, swept flurries for tomorrow. Wednesday. As far as today goes, it's nice. It's calm, the potential for the flurry start up as early as six o'clock in the morning. Feels like temperatures dropping down to the twenties, you need all the layers, it will feel significantly colder tomorrow. Waking up as we progress throughout the day, we'll notice a mixture of sun and clouds, more clouds than sun and the temperature staying stuck in the forties. The potential for a Sprinkle is also there Wednesday afternoon. We clear out nicely heading Thursday. We get a repeat and do over. I think this day is a bit more likely for us to notice those snowflakes lingering about with a seasonal feel and that festive look overall tying in that colder air along with that look as well. Here's an exclusive look at our extended attend day here, forties as we say hello and happy Hanukkah and heading into the afternoon and evening time frame into the fifties. But a cold front approaches on Sunday.

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Good stuff there. All right, let's get another check of the weather. Yeah, Alan's back and we're talking cold weather like we're probably used to doing in December. Right. A right. Right. So we're pretty much back to where we should be this time of year. And you think today is cold gets even colder into tomorrow. So, let's take a look. Let's fast forward 24 hours and what we're going to see our temperatures close to the freezing mark tomorrow morning, especially northern parts of our bro. So Riverdale and North Bay Chester close to that freezing mark and it's going to feel like a little bit below freezing. So definitely colder than this morning. 34 for sound, be 35 for throgs that not much of an improvement into the afternoon as we're going to see lots of cloud cover, keeping us on the cold side. So it's going to be a struggle to reach 40 degrees. I think most of us do that. But it's going to feel like the thirties all day long. So, back to that December kind of cold hour by hour, you can see most of the day we're in the thirties, maybe during that two o'clock hour, we do reach the 40 degree mark. Then things get a little bit interesting for Thursday. Notice clouds come right back in and look at the left side of the screen over there. That's right. That's snow. So for us it's just going to be cold, it's going to be about 39 degrees. Then look at that. A couple of snowflakes are pretty close to us here in the Bronx. Of course, this is still a couple of days out, but I can't rule out a couple of those snowflakes, but the forecast is definitely improving most of the day is going to be dry. So looking at Hanukkah as it is ushering in uh for sunset, the temperatures, they are going down from 39 degrees into the middle 30. So you definitely want to bundle up if you're going out and about 10 day forecast is going to show warm up goes really, really into overdrive this weekend. But so does the rain chance big storm system looks likelier and likelier when exactly on Sunday, we're figuring that out, but move those plans to Saturday. Good advice for everyone. Thank you, Alan. Well, getting rid of rats once and for all requires all.

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Are still available, two very opposite ends of the spectrum there between Santa Con and that performance. But both signs of the season for sure, Matt Hammer, as are the temperatures will be experiencing. And you said maybe possibly a snow flake or two today, right tomorrow and Thursday, really, it's really a dry day today. But tomorrow, an isolated flurry can be ruled out a better chance on Thursday. Nothing that's going to slow you down in terms of winter weather at all. But yeah, it could add to a festive look tomorrow and Thursday today, dry, but mostly into the afternoon. Highs right around 42 degree mark in Scarsdale this afternoon. And, and with the clouds overhead, those temperatures really won't change for several hours during the afternoon until after sunset just before 430. And that's when temperatures will start to drop towards the upper thirties and eventually it'll get a little bit colder overnight. Tonight, outside this morning, it was a nice start to the day. You can see high clouds already moving in and into the afternoon. It will become mostly cloudy. So here's the future cast a lot of gray by noon time it's chilly. It's mostly cloudy, but it's a decent day. Otherwise, as long as you're dressed appropriately, having the winter coat gloves and the hat even into the afternoon is not an awful idea. Overnight. Tonight, mostly cloudy, still chilly overnight. Lows mostly in the upper twenties to low thirties into early on Wednesday morning. And then tomorrow is going to be a mostly cloudy day in its entirety for Wednesday. Here you see a little blip of some white or blue popping up late morning into the afternoon tomorrow. That would be that isolated flurry chance most of the Hudson Valley does not even see that though increasing clouds today. Low forties in chilly colder overnight tonight, as you'd expect this time of the year for a nighttime lows around 29 in Newburgh for a hyperlocal temperature same in Poughkeepsie, about 33 in the city of Yonkers, close to 40 again tomorrow, if anything, a straight flurry, but most of the day is dry, can't rule out of flurry on Thursday as well near 40. Then temperatures warm up Friday into the weekend. Fifties starting on Saturday. It's the pick of the week there before some rain on Sunday, Monday through Thursday of next week, looking dry but chillier with highs back in the 40

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I'm meteorologist Rich Hoffman. You're a hyper local weather forecast, heading throughout the rest of our day. We do have the cloudy skies with us. A temperature around 44 degrees for the high and then this evening going out for dinner, you're looking at temperatures in the low forties and then by tomorrow morning, mostly cloudy skies, temperature around 32 degrees. Waking up on your Wednesday morning, there is a slight chance of a Sprinkle or a flurry overnight as war warm air comes in from the west. So you're seeing the clouds here and some moisture we have what we call an Alberta Clipper kind of screaming on by here and it's gonna go to the south and there's gonna be some clouds. And as it moves south of Long Island, there will be the chance overnight of a quick little rain, snow shower or Sprinkle or flurry overnight into the first part of our Wednesday hour by hour, the rest of today, 42 degrees five o'clock in Bay Shore at 38 at 8 p.m. There's the clouds and again, slight chance of a Sprinkle of flurry into your Wednesday morning. You can see here on our weather maps. Then by Wednesday afternoon, mostly cloudy skies and Wednesday has a chill to the air. A high of only 41 and there will be a slight chance even Wednesday afternoon of a quick little rain or snow shower. You see that right here at around five 45 with temperatures in the thirties. Another reinforcing shot of cold air coming in towards Thursday morning, temperatures are going to be in the upper twenties and low thirties. Then mostly cloudy skies, Thursday afternoon, a slight chance of a quick little Sprinkle moving on through and then the warm air comes in going towards your weekend and wet. Here you go Sunday. This is towards Sunday evening. It's raining. There could be some moderate to heavy rain, Sunday afternoon through Sunday evening and some strong gusty winds. We could be looking at Sunday afternoon with winds gusting near 40 MPH. So we need to be weather aware for that Sunday time frame a high near 44 today with mostly cloudy skies thirties tonight, mostly cloudy chance of a rain or snow shower through tomorrow. Cold disorder of Hanukkah. And there's the rain Sunday into Monday morning.

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Let's take a look outside through a community camera overlooking Stanford. We see those clouds moving in. Let's get an update on your forecast with meteorologist Jonathan Cuban John. Hey, what's going on, Becky? Now, listen, we're going to work with this chill over the next couple of days. Thirds is going to be the coldest day. You're going to need those hand warmers for sure as you're stepping out the door with it, feeling like the twenties for a lot of us to open up that morning and then we're going to see a nice warm up heading into the weekend, but unfortunately, it does come a little bit of some rain and we could see some strong damaging winds for your Sunday. We're gonna wait through the rest of this afternoon. Numbers well into the thirties, maybe a 40 degree reading here here or there, but notice it's mainly gray. A lot of cloud cover won't rule out a poke of some sunshine for some spots. But again, most of that bright sky that we saw was earlier this morning. We fast forward into tonight, still sitting pretty quiet, but it's gonna be a little bit more on the chillier side and a touch colder as stepping out the door for your tomorrow morning numbers, upper twenties, lower thirties. That's what it'll feel like with just a little bit of some wind and then we'll try to get into some clearing for your tomorrow evening and into your tomorrow night. And that's gonna open door for some colder air to start off your Thursday again. Thursday is gonna be the coldest day from start to finish daytime highs. It's not making it out of the thirties. 34 for Redding, 36 for West 37 from Greenwich all the way up to Bridgeport. And again, that looks like it's gonna be the best that we do. We fast forward into your weekend Saturday again, we're gonna watch the system pushing in from west to east as this front really is gonna push out that clear sky, which we're gonna really work with for your Saturday. Saturday looks a little bit better than last week. Last Friday wasn't too bad. Right. We had those milder temperatures but it was very gray. We're gonna work with sunshine for this, this weekend, at least for the first half before we're gonna find clouds fill in late Saturday night into your sun. And then yes, we're watching some rain as we're pushing into the later part of your Sunday morning for right now. Timing, of course, can definitely, you know, move out and about, we can give things maybe an hour or two early or later as we're pushing forward into again the late morning. So do expect that if you do have plans for the second half of the week and that commute home back into the area as we can see, steady to heavy rain, really picking up into your Sunday night. Not to mention some strong damaging winds. Uh, again, could cause for a little bit of some tricky travel. But do you notice mild temperatures continue to stick around as we head into the start of next week, Becky John. Thank you. And just a reminder this weekend.

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20-year-old cold case murder reevaluated for possible connections to Gilgo suspect

A grim milestone for the family of a young woman in Las Vegas whose cold case murder is now being probed for a possible link to the Gilgo Beach murders. The turn to terror team has just learned that Jodi Marie Brewer killed 20 years ago. Today is among the sex workers out west whose death is being re evaluated for any possible connection to the suspected serial killer. Rex Huberman. Our senior reporter, Terra Rosenblum has the story. She looked like Madonna when she walked out the door. She, she was so sociable. She was so easy to love. She was like the merry sunshine in my life 20 years after Jodie Marie Brewer's murder and the grief is just as raw for her mother, Pam. That doesn't go away. We live this every day of our lives and younger sister Jacqueline when she was gone missing and I was only 13. So August 14th, 2003 was the day her 19 year old sister disappeared from Las Vegas. She had gone out for the night and she said, I love you mom. She said, I'll see you in the morning. And I said, I love you. Too, Jody and, um, I never saw her again. Jodie's torso was discovered wrapped in cloth and plastic. Two weeks later in the Mojave desert losing her was like a part of me because, you know, she was always there. So, and, um, yeah, now two decades later, Jodi's long cold case is getting a second look as part of a wider effort to hunt for more possible victims of suspected serial killer. Rex Yerman who owns a timeshare just a few miles off the Las Vegas strip. It seems to me like the area that he bought the condos in was uh prostitution areas and that it would have been real easy for him. Like the Gilgo Beach murder victims. Brewer says her daughter had turned to prostitution after falling into the wrong crowd and using drugs. But our close review of 266 cold case murders in Las Vegas shows that Jodi's tragic fate was also shared by four other sex workers between 2003 and two 1006 who died in similarly suspicious circumstances. A Las Vegas law enforcement source tells news 12, he has no doubt that one person is to blame for at least several of those cases. But is that person Rex? Y our source says the DNA evidence could take many months to process since the older. It is, the more it degrades over time still the whole thing. It's totally different now because it gives us a little hope in a weird way in a weird way just for everybody like the survivors and the victims. And, um, hopefully we can get some resolutions. Tara Rosenbloom News 12. And if you have a tip you want Tara to look into regarding the Gilgo Beach murder investigations, you can reach her with the information on your screen or head to the features section of news 12 dot com and click on the turn to Tara Tab.

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