(MASSAPEQUA PARK, NY) – Investigators returned Monday to the home of a New York architect accused of sequence of murders Known as Gilgo beach murders.
State and city police raided Rex Heuermann’s dilapidated single-family home in Massapequa Park on Long Island sometime before 7 a.m.
They used their vehicles and set up barriers to isolate the block and erected white tents in front of the red house.
Officers removed boxes and bags of evidence from the home while forensic and crime lab units spent much of the day at the scene. Officials from the Suffolk County coroner’s office also visited.
Spokespeople for the New York State Police and Suffolk County Police Department deferred questions to the office of Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney, who declined to comment.
“As District Attorney Tierney previously stated, the work of the Gilgo Beach Homicide Task Force continues,” his spokeswoman, Tania Lopez, said in an emailed statement. “We do not comment on ongoing investigative steps.”
Attorneys for Heuermann and his family did not respond to calls and emails seeking comment Monday, but told local news outlets that his wife and two adult children were not home at the time. Heuermann has been in custody since his arrest last July and has maintained his innocence.
Police searched the home, located in a suburban town about 40 miles east of Manhattan, for about two weeks after his arrest.
Monday’s search also comes about a month after authorities spent more than a week searching in a wooded area in Manorville. The remains of two women were found years earlier in the area, located about 40 miles east of Heuermann’s home, although he was not charged with those murders.
Heuermann, 60, is expected back in court June 18 for a hearing in Suffolk County Criminal Court in Riverhead. No trial date has been set.
In January, he was charged with death of a fourth womanMaureen Brainard-Barnes, who disappeared in 2007 and whose remains were found more than three years later along a coastal highway on Long Island.
The formal charges came months after authorities labeled him the prime suspect in the Connecticut mother’s death when he was arrested in July. in the deaths of three other women.
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