Gilgo Seaside suspect could have killed victims at his LI residence whereas spouse, youngsters had been away: investigators

Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann could have murdered victims at his household’s residence whereas his spouse and youngsters had been out of city —  as a result of it gave him “on a regular basis on the earth” and entry to objects comparable to tape and burlap luggage, in keeping with a law-enforcement supply.

The ladies who Heuermann allegedly killed had disappeared in periods when his spouse, Asa Ellerup, 59, and two grownup kids had been touring — probably prompting him to lure the victims to their modest ramshackled home in Massapequa Park, Lengthy Island, as a substitute of a resort, the supply advised The Put up on Friday.

Slaying the ladies at his home would give Heuermann a managed setting and “make it simpler to take away the our bodies” within the bag with out being seen, the supply famous.

“It was a concept from day one by some investigators that he dedicated a number of the crimes in his residence,” the supply stated.

“Investigators who suppose he dedicated it in his home say it will make sense as a result of nobody was residence. He had on a regular basis on the earth, and it will be simpler to take away the our bodies in a burlap bag from his residence, than a resort the place somebody would possibly see him.

“One drawback proving that is that he choked the victims to dying, so there was no blood. If he shot or stabbed them, they might in all probability discover some from the victims,” the supply stated.

“They haven’t discovered any DNA from the victims within the residence as of this time,” the supply stated of authorities.

“There isn’t a proof at the moment” that the suspect killed them there, the supply added..

Investigators who did discover tape and burlap luggage on the crime scene are nonetheless combing his home for any proof which may be linked to victims.

Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect with a Manhattan workplace, was charged final week within the slayings of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Lynn Costello, three of the “Gilgo 4” victims whose stays had been present in Gilgo Seaside in 2010.

He’s the primary suspect within the fourth sufferer, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, who disappeared in 2007, authorities have stated.

A number of sources additionally told News 12 that investigators imagine at the least one of many Gilgo Seaside murders occurred at Heuermann’s residence.

“It’s fairly frequent — lots of people have killed their victims … of their properties as a result of their properties present them with acquainted, safety. It’s their consolation zone,” stated NYPD detective and professor at John Jay Faculty of Prison Justice, Michael Alcazar, to the outlet.

Proof might abound on the dwelling, he stated.

“It may very well be one thing he carried out ritualistically, like what he did along with his victims,” Alcazar stated. “It may very well be trophies, it may very well be his instruments, his arsenal of weapons, perhaps he recorded it.”

Household neighbor Betty Vrana added to the station, “You marvel, how might that occur?

“Lots of people are questioning, was his spouse away quite a bit?”

Barthelemy, a 24-year-old intercourse employee  residing within the Bronx, was final seen July 12, 2009, whereas Waterman, a 22-year-old intercourse employee and mother from Maine, vanished June, 6, 2010.

Costello, a 27-year-old escort who struggled with heroin habit, was final seen leaving her residence September 2, 2010.

Cellphone information and surveillance digicam footage present the ladies traveled to the world of Heuermann’s across the occasions they disappeared, police have stated.

Ellerup was blindsided by her husband’s allegedly sadistic double life, in keeping with police, and filed for divorce Wednesday, lower than every week after his arrest in New York Metropolis.

Heuermann’ was “alone within the tri-state space” in the course of the time of the killings, Suffolk County District Legal professional Ray Tierney stated final week.

-Extra reporting by Joe Marino