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Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Detectives Use This Pattern to Catch Serial Killers.

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Law Enforcement, Crime, True Crime, Military

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Rex Heuermann has pleaded guilty — and now the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit may get the chance to study the mind of the Gilgo Beach killer up close. In this episode of Police Off the Cuff, retired NYPD Sgt. Bill Cannon is joined by retired FBI profiler Jim Clemente to break down what the BAU will look for next: offender traits, organized behavior, modus operandi, psycho-sexual motivations, and whether Heuermann could be pushed to admit to other murders. This is a true-crime behavioral analysis of Rex Heuermann, the Gilgo Beach murders, and the next major phase of the investigation.

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0:00.0

And you guys may know him because he's the head writer on the TV show Criminal Minds.

0:06.1

But besides that, before he became a writer, he paid his dues in other areas, namely the FBI.

0:13.0

He was an FBI.

0:13.8

He was one of their top profilers.

0:15.5

And he also spent several years training in the behavioral analysis unit and what better individual to have

0:23.2

on than Jim Clementi. Jim, welcome to the show. How you doing, Bill? It's great to see you guys.

0:29.0

It's great to have you back, Jim. You know something? As soon as I heard the deal,

0:33.3

and I don't think the fact that Rex Hulman pled guilty was a surprise to anyone, although many people, of course, would have liked there to have been a trial just so they could find out all the things that he did in a court of law.

0:48.1

But he pled guilty to seven murders and admitted to an eighth Karen Vergata.

0:53.7

And for that, he's getting three

0:55.0

life terms. But more importantly and more interestingly to the true crime community and to us,

1:02.2

is that Ray Tierney, the Suffolk County District Attorney, got him to agree to be interviewed

1:09.5

by the FBI behavioral analysis unit.

1:13.4

Yeah.

1:13.7

And Jim, you know all about that.

1:15.2

And we're going to let you do a hell of a lot of your talking because we don't know

1:18.2

really anything about this.

1:19.9

What are your thoughts about that?

1:21.3

Well, first of all, I think it totally meshes with his personality.

1:26.6

I think he's a narcissistic, egomaniac who loves to tell people about himself.

1:33.2

And so I think he agreed to do that because he realizes he's spending the rest of his life

1:39.8

in a gray cell and he'll never get out.

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