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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

The Long Island Serial Killer's Alleged Hunt: LISK's Burner Phones, Taunting, and Gilgo Four Pattern

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

July 2009. A fifteen-year-old girl answers her missing sister's phone. A man's voice asks: "Do you know what I did to your sister?"

Amanda Barthelemy received seven calls over the following weeks. The man described what he'd done. On August 26, he said: "You won't see her again. I killed her."

In Part 4 of our Gilgo Beach Killer series, we examine the alleged LISK hunting methodology—how prosecutors say the Long Island Serial Killer selected vulnerable women, contacted them via burner phones, and allegedly taunted families after the killings.

The seven victims share a pattern. All sex workers. All petite—the planning document notes "small is good." All allegedly contacted via burner phones. All allegedly disappeared when the alleged Gilgo Beach Killer's family was away.

According to court documents, investigators found no instance where Heuermann's personal phone was separate from burner phones when they were active. In 2012, the FBI traced calls to "the box"—a small area of Massapequa Park.

Heuermann's house was inside the box.

Suffolk County prosecutors also allege fake email accounts: John Springfield, Thomas Hawk, Andrew Roberts. Used to create dating profiles and contact women. Under one alias, "thousands of searches" were allegedly conducted for violent pornography and worse.

Even in 2022, investigators watched the alleged Long Island Serial Killer add money to burner phones. The alleged methodology never stopped.

DA Ray Tierney: "His intent was specifically to locate these victims, to hunt them down, to bring them under his control, and to kill them."

Hunt. The word appears in the planning document prosecutors allege was found on LISK's hard drive. "Get sleep before hunt."

Rex Heuermann has pleaded not guilty. The Gilgo Beach trial is September 2026. Part 4 of 5.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske.

0:03.2

Here now, Tony Bruske.

0:07.0

Welcome as we continue to break down the Long Island serial killer case, the Gilgo Beach

0:12.2

murder case, Rex Heerman's case.

0:16.0

This has been called so many damn things.

0:19.4

It's all the same.

0:20.6

If you're just starting to join us, just

0:22.1

starting to understand and try to wrap your mind around this multi-murder case,

0:29.0

um, welcome. This is part four, uh, now in our series as we continue to break it down. And as we do,

0:36.9

I'd love to get your thoughts in the comment section, either on YouTube or substack.

0:41.3

Let's in this piece begin with the phone calls.

0:45.0

July 2009, a 15-year-old girl named Amanda receives a call.

0:51.8

Her sister, Melissa Bartholome

0:55.2

it's been missing for days

0:58.0

the phone rings and it is

0:59.6

Melissa's number

1:01.6

you're saying there

1:03.9

oh my God where is my sister

1:05.3

she's calling

1:06.3

you pick up the phone

1:08.1

hello

1:08.9

the voice on the other end is not melissa a man's voice asks

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