Gilgo Beach cops return to suspect Rex Heuermann’s house on new search warrant
Investigators and state police have swarmed the Massapequa Park home of alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann with a new search warrant.
Police arrived early Monday morning at the home where Heuermann’s estranged wife Asa Ellerup and their two children, Victoria Heuermann, 26, and Christopher Sheridan, 33, lived.
Asa Ellerup’s attorney Robert A. Macedonio said NewsNationNow that “there were no family members home when police arrived.”
It is not clear at this time what prompted Monday’s search of the Long Island property or what officials were looking for.
The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment other than to say that “the work of the Gilgo Beach Homicide Task Force continues.”
Investigators and state police swarmed the Massapequa Park home of alleged serial killer Rex Heuermann with a new search warrant. He will be seen in court in February
An aerial view of police inside the Massapequa Park home of alleged serial killer Rex Heuermann
Heuermann, 60, is awaiting trial and charged with murder four women whose bodies were found wrapped on a stretch of Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach.
He was arrested in July and initially charged with the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, and Amber Lynn Costello, 27.
In February, he was also charged with the murder of 25-year-old Maureen Brainard-Barnes.
Heuermann pleaded not guilty to all charges and is currently in jail awaiting trial.
Last month it was revealed that a new search was underway in connection with the Gilgo Beach murder investigation.
Detectives began searching a wooded area in Manorville, New York, in April.
The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment on the details of the search.
Multiple agencies are searching the Manorville location in connection with the Gilgo Beach investigation
The new searches came after the father of two’s home in Massapequa was raided following the discovery of the bodies.
The women were found wrapped in burlap more than a decade ago and buried along the remote stretch of Ocean Parkway on Long Island’s south shore.
The women’s remains were discovered during the search for 23-year-old Shannan Gilbert, a New Jersey escort who disappeared in May 2010 after a panicked 911 call.
Her remains were found along the same stretch of coast in December 2011 – and it was her body that led police to the discovery of the ‘Gilgo Four’.
No one has ever been charged in Gilbert’s death and police said it may have been an accident, but her family believes she was murdered.
The new searches came after the father of two’s home in Massapequa was raided following the discovery of the bodies
The first victim, 24-year-old Melissa Barthelemy, was discovered by Suffolk County police on December 11, 2010. The body of Megan Waterman, 22, of Maine, was found two days later.
Heuermann is also accused of the murders of Amber Costello (left) and Maureen Brainard-Barnes (right)
Heuermann pleaded not guilty to all charges and is currently in jail awaiting trial
The women were among 11 found between 2010 and 2011 on the deserted stretch of shoreline near Heuermann’s Long Island Home.
All of the victims worked as escorts who advertised themselves on Craigslist.
Heuermann was linked to the killings by DNA on the burlap used to transport the body, which was compared to samples taken from a pizza crust and napkin discarded outside his Manhattan architectural office, police said.
According to law enforcement, the samples were a 99.96 percent match.
Before DNA testing, police said they were alerted to Heuermann as a potential suspect after a witness linked Heuermann’s Chevrolet Avalanche to Costello’s murder.
The car was then linked to Heuermann’s cell phone records, which allegedly linked him to locations linked to the murders.
The indictment stated that Heuermann used several burner phones to contact each of his victims.
The Heuermann family home in Massapequa Park was torn apart by authorities as they searched the property for evidence
Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann is ‘incapable’ of the brutal murders he is accused of, according to his estranged wife Asa Ellerup (pictured)
Police also accused Heuermann of using Barthelemy’s phone to make harassing calls to her family from his office.
Her sister Melissa told how she was bombarded with threatening phone calls from the killer who bragged about the murder and monitored her movements.
In October, it was revealed that Heuermann is under investigation for the murder of two additional sex workers.
The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment on the nature of the new search. Pictured: Investigators set up outside Heuermann’s home last July
His ex-wife, Asa Ellerup (pictured) was also seen pulling up to the Long Island courthouse in a black Mercedes
Suffolk County Police Chief Rodney K. Harrison confirmed that he had assigned additional investigators to the cases of two other women, Valerie Mack and Karen Vergata.
At the time of the alleged murders, Heuermann’s now ex-wife Asa Ellerup was away from home. She filed for divorce less than a week after her husband’s arrest.