Truth, Investigations and Criminal Behavior · blangifm

Inside the Gilgo Beach Serial Murders – Former NYPD Detective Squad Commander Explains the Case (Audio)

·26 min·1 clip

Blangiforte ties the Gilgo Beach serial murders to Long Island, Rex Heuermann, and a prior seven-part series.

Blangiforte opens the show by saying he is a retired NYPD detective squad commander who spent 20 years with the department, most of that time on investigations, and now wants to walk listeners through real cases. The tone is plain and direct. He frames the podcast around interviews with seasoned detectives, the steps they took, and the proof that tied a perpetrator to a crime. He does not stop at the arrest. He says the show will also look at prosecutions and at what criminal behavior can tell investigators after the scene is secure. That is the larger project. He wants to understand what makes bad people do what they do, and he keeps coming back to evidence instead of rumor. The case gives him a story to work. He notes that victims were found in burlap bags and that asphyxiation and strangulation were part of the case details. Rex Ewerman is the central figure. Blangiforte points out that Ewerman lived only about five minutes from his house, which makes the case feel uncomfortably close. He describes the house as a dilapidated branch-style place with old red shingles and a clear sense of disrepair. He also says the search warrant uncovered 90 guns in the basement, including long guns, automatic weapons, and revolvers. The details do not stay separate. He ties them to Google searches and to the warning signs detectives look for when they think something is badly off. He sounds like a working investigator. The case is presented as a chain of questions, interviews, interrogations, and checks against what can survive in prosecution. The episode keeps circling back to one idea. Investigators have to find the truth, and that makes this a fit for listeners who want a serious, evidence-centered account of a notorious case.

As heard by us

A blunt, evidence-first look at how a case gets built.

Mike Blangiforte opens his first podcast episode like a working detective, not a showman. He keeps circling back to what actually matters in a case: the scene, the evidence, the interviews, the arrests, and the prosecutions that follow.

Read the full review in PlayNext →

Why you'd press play

You want the Gilgo Beach case broken down by a retired NYPD detective.

Read the full recommendation in PlayNext →

Listen to the show on

Apple Podcasts Spotify

Play clips from this episode More from Truth, Investigations and Criminal Behavior