In the suburbs of D.C., a woman fails to show up for work and is found brutally murdered.

I wonder which emergency.

We just walked in the door, and there's blood in the foyer.

For the next two decades, the case remained unsolved until new technology allowed investigators to do what had once been impossible.

A new series from ABC Audio in 2020.

Blood and Water.

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Hi, everybody.

Welcome to 2020, The After Show.

So happy you're with us today.

I'm Deborah Roberts, and

you are joining us for a pretty special story because we're going to take a deep look, a special

look at a major cases. So many people have been talking about around the country. It's one of the

most shocking crime stories I think that we've ever covered here on 2020. And many of you've heard of it. It's called the Gilgo Beach Murders. Well, this was a series

of killings of young women whose remains were discovered along Ocean Parkway on Long Island,

New York. And at the center of those killings was someone that people just never would have

imagined, a 59-year-old architect by the

name of Rex Heurman. Well, I remember this case so well because I was assigned to it when he was

arrested in New York City in July of 2023 for the murders of three women before he was later

charged with the deaths of four other women. This past April, Heuerman shocked

everybody. He had steadfastly maintained his innocence, and then he showed up in a courtroom in

Suffolk County and changed his plea, and people are still talking about that and the reverberations

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