Rex Heuermann’s household ‘shocked,’ ‘embarrassed’ and ‘disgusted’ as FBI raids their properties

Rex Heuermann’s household is “shocked,” “embarrassed’ and “disgusted” of the “animal” he’s accused of being, the highest cop within the Lengthy Island serial killer case stated — because the FBI has helped raid relations’ properties so far as South Carolina.

The accused Gilgo Seaside killer lived in Massapequa Park with his two kids and second wife, Asa Ellerup, who police stated had been away from dwelling on the time of every of the 4 murders he’s to this point suspected of committing.

“Once we initially knowledgeable them about their husband, their father, they have been shocked,” Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison told CNN Monday.

“They have been disgusted — they have been embarrassed.

“So, when you ask me, I don’t consider they knew about this double life that Mr. Heuermann was dwelling,” he stated.

Heuermann was arrested outdoors his Fifth Avenue workplace final Thursday via fears he would possibly kill once more or flee the nation if he deduced he was about to be busted, Harrison stated.

“It’s an excellent factor that we acquired this animal off the streets,” the commissioner advised CNN.

The Gilgo Seaside process pressure is constant to scour Heuermann’s Lengthy Island dwelling, which is simply throughout South Oyster Bay from the place the our bodies of so-called “Gilgo 4” intercourse staff have been discovered strewn in December 2010.

They’ve additionally searched a storage unit he had in Amityville whereas widening the search to think about if he continued killing after the Gilgo Seaside murders, police have stated.

The property searches have stretched no less than 700 miles away to South Carolina the place the FBI and native cops have raided properties tied to Heuermann and his relations.

That features round 4 a lot of land Heuermann purchased in Chester County precisely two years in the past — telling locals he deliberate to retire to the secluded space, according to Fox Carolina.

His 57-year-old brother Craig — who as soon as killed a police captain in a crash while drunk and “coked up” — lives on the identical road because the Rippling Brooke Drive property, data present. He has not responded to The Put up’s a number of makes an attempt to succeed in him..

The Chester County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that it has helped “collect proof” within the case — together with getting a search warrant for the Chevrolet Avalanche that first linked Heuermann to the murders

It was not clear how lengthy the pickup — seen parked out Heuermann’s Lengthy Island dwelling after his alleged murders on Google Maps photographs — could have been on the wooded space within the Palmetto State.

The sheriff’s workplace stated it “will proceed to work intently” with the FBI and the Gilgo Seaside process pressure “throughout this crucial and arduous investigation.”

Heuermann has pleaded not responsible to murdering Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello.

He has been named the prime suspect within the homicide of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, and Suffolk County District Lawyer Ray Tierney stated Monday that he’s “assured” he’ll have the ability to deliver costs in connection together with her homicide.

Officers burdened that the duty pressure stays energetic, investigating the deaths of the seven different folks whose corpses had been discovered at Gilgo Seaside greater than a decade in the past. These murders had not been linked to Heuermann.

“We’re simply within the infancy of the work that must be carried out going ahead,” Deputy Commissioner Anthony Carter stated Monday. “Tips are still coming in.”