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Best Case Worst Case

485|Rex pleads guilty

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Maureen and Jim discuss the profile and Guilty plea for the murders of 8 women whose bodies were discovered in Long Island ny,

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to best case, worst case.

0:09.7

I'm Maureen O'Connell, your host, a 25-year veteran of the FBI and a 20-year veteran of the FBI's

0:16.9

evidence response team. And with me today is...

0:20.3

I'm Jim Clementi, retired FBI profiler, former New York City prosecutor, writer-producer

0:25.8

of criminal minds, and Bluebeard on Audubour. That might be the slowest you've ever said it.

0:31.7

So thank you for that. Well, I could... I'm a little bit under the weather, so.

0:38.4

Yep.

0:38.8

Yeah.

0:39.7

Hope you feel better soon.

0:41.7

Thanks.

0:42.4

So today we're going to talk a little bit about the Rex Hewerman case.

0:47.4

And the focus, if it's okay with you, Jim, at least initially, would be to talk about the profile that you put together in,

0:57.8

I believe it was 2011 or something?

1:00.5

2011, yeah, it was.

1:03.1

And it was basically the New York Times reached out to me and asked me if I could put together

1:08.6

a profile based on what we knew at the time.

1:11.4

What we knew was they were up to 10 bodies discovered in the same area on the south shore of Long Island.

1:22.6

And it's the, as they found out more and more information, it turned out that the murders were very seasonal, mainly during the summer months.

1:37.7

And that at least one or more of the bodies was bound in a way that showed me he had multiple

1:47.0

belts or some other types of ligatures on at least one of the bodies and that he wrapped some of the bodies in barlap, which is very unusual.

2:07.6

And then, you know, he was very meticulous, and he went back to the same place ten times.

2:18.3

Most, I think almost all of his victims were very petite.

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