Suspect in Long Island’s Gilgo Beach serial killings is charged in the deaths of two more women

thank you well good morning uh thanks everyone for coming uh and dealing with our logistical issues in the rain uh uh today uh as you've just seen the the District Attorney's Office filed a superseding indictment charging the defendant with two additional murders uh those um charges pertain to the uh 1993 murder of Sandra Castilla and uh the 2003 murder of Jessica Taylor uh so that's in addition to the previously charged murders of uh Moren brainer Barnes Melissa bartholomy Megan Wardman and Amber Costello which occurred uh in 1997 uh 1999 uh June of 2010 and September of 2010 respectively German had a significant collection of violent bondage and torture pornography uh which was dating back to 1994 and that that material uh was uh very similar uh to the condition that the two latest victims were left in um in addition to that it is alleged that the pornographic images that were accessed um by by yur are consistent uh with the crime scenes of both Sandra Casia and Jessica Taylor now as part of our Pro uh processing of the electronic devices the task force discovered a Microsoft work Word document entitled HK 2002 through 2004 uh that was discovered on a on a laptop in unallocated space meaning there was an attempt to erase that uh document the task force believes that this is a planning document and it was utilized by Yurman to methodically blueprint and plan out his his uh skills with excruciating uh detail uh we alleg that this document evinces the defendant's intent in committing the charged crimes that his intent was specifically to locate uh these victims uh to hunt them down uh and to bring them uh to bring them under his control and to kill them uh and we alleg that the methodology that the exact method by which these murders were committed in excruciating detail in that document is in some cases identical uh to the methodology used to murder the six victims in this case spoke with Rob uh but he certainly brought a a contingent of uh suff County PD to represent the uh his off

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Length: 2min 48sec (168 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 11 2024