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The wife of the Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect Rex Heuermann and her attorney told CNN she had "no idea" of her husband's alleged actions and that the flood of public attention has been "extremely overwhelming" for the mother and her two children.

Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students last fall, was not at the location where the crimes took place, his defense attorneys suggested Tuesday, though they have yet to provide evidence or details about his whereabouts.

Authorities searching the home of Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect Rex Heuermann continued those efforts over the weekend with the help of a police dog and ground-penetrating radar, CNN affiliate News 12 Long Island reported.

Amid the search for Shannan Gilbert, who went missing in May 2010, police on Long Island's South Shore discovered the bodies of four other women wrapped in camouflaged burlap just off Ocean Parkway in Gilgo Beach in December 2010.

Rex Heuermann has been charged with killing three women whose bodies were discovered along a stretch of Long Island's Gilgo Beach in 2010, bound with belts or tape and wrapped in burlap.

Since the spring of this year, investigators looking into the Gilgo Beach serial killings case have been operating on the theory that the suspect, Rex Heuermann, committed the killings in his home in Massapequa Park, New York.

In her more than 27 years of marriage to Rex Heuermann, Asa Ellerup likely did not know about the gruesome double life her husband is accused of living, Suffolk County's top cop says.

Probes into Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect Rex Heuermann now reach across the country as investigators are examining his connections to Las Vegas and South Carolina, where the suspect has owned property.

As the tangled investigation into the Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect continues, a police official described to CNN the tense moments leading up to his arrest, including fears that the man might flee the country if he found out that prosecutors were preparing charges in the case.

A law enforcement task force will continue to work "full time" to gather evidence after a suspect has been charged in some of the Gilgo Beach killings, including further investigation into a string of other human remains found scattered across Long Island more than a decade ago, a top investigator told CNN.

Robert Bowers was convicted of 63 federal charges and now faces either life in prison or execution.

Prosecutors could seek the death penalty against a Mexican national charged with fatally shooting five people in a Texas home, after a grand jury indicted him for capital murder, the district attorney told CNN on Friday.