The Gilgo murder case is back in the headlines as a team of investigators returned to the home of the prime suspect in the case, architect Rex Heuermann, who’s been jailed since July for the alleged murder of four women in a crime spree that has horrified Long Island.
The decade-old cold case was broken following the election of Suffolk District Attorney Raymond Tierney, who created a special task force to reinvigorate the investigation. Following Heuermann’s initial arrest, police combed through his Massapequa home and other properties, where they found the Chevy Avalanche that proved to be the lynchpin in the case when it was tied to Heuermann by a friend of one of the victims. Tierney, citing an ongoing investigation, declined to give further details on the new search.
Police previously found a large cache of weapons at Heuermann’s home hidden behind a false wall and disclosed evidence seized in the investigation, including phone records and computer searches that showed the suspect had an intense interest in the Gilgo investigation, Tierney reported.
The District Attorney promised to leave no stone unturned in the task force’s mission to find those responsible for all of the dozen victims found along the desolate stretch of Ocean Parkway in Babylon where their bodies were discovered. Heuermann was initially arrested for the murder of three of the Gilgo victims and was charged with a fourth as the investigation continued. Search teams descended on the Manorville woods three weeks ago where body parts had previously been found that were matched to remains found at Gilgo. Search teams expanded into Calverton and the Southampton community of North Sea, reportedly looking for clues in the Gilgo case and other unsolved murders.