Gilgo Seashore suspect Rex Heuermann’s Chevy that led to arrest was usually parked in plain sight

An Avalanche of proof was hiding in plain sight.

The distinctive first-generation Chevrolet Avalanche that led cops to suspect Rex Heuermann of the Gilgo Seashore murders was lengthy seen to neighbors, passerby — and even customers of on-line avenue mapping websites.

Court docket paperwork obtained by The Put up Friday detailed how the important thing breakthrough within the 13-year-old serial killer case got here when a registration search final March confirmed that the native married dad of two owned a first-generation mannequin of the truck.

“This was important, as a result of a witness to the disappearance of [murder victim] Amber Costello recognized a first-generation Chevrolet Avalanche because the car believed to have been pushed by her killer,” a bail software stated.

That witness was Costello’s pimp — who solely got here ahead with the important thing information throughout an interview with a particular activity power arrange final 12 months, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison informed the Daily News Saturday.

He additionally described the pickup-driving john as wanting “like an ‘ogre’” and about 6-foot-4 tall — which “mirrors the physical attributes” of Heuermann, who’s that precise peak, in keeping with the courtroom paperwork ob.

In his interview final 12 months, the pimp informed cops he noticed the suspect and his Avalanche whereas planning a September 2010 “ruse” to scare off Costello’s john by pretending to be an indignant boyfriend, so they might maintain the money with out intercourse, courtroom paperwork stated.

As an alternative, the john used a burner telephone to demanded they meet the following evening.

“Amber informed us that he wished to see her once more, however he didn’t need to come again to the home
due to her boyfriend,” the witness informed police, in keeping with the courtroom paperwork.

The burner telephone was linked to Heuermann’s hometown of Massapequa Park, situated about quarter-hour away from the place Costello and the opposite so-called “Gilgo 4” girls’s our bodies have been discovered months later in 2010.

That evening can be the final time Costello, 27, was seen alive — leaving her home concurrently a witness noticed “a dark-colored truck” drive by.

Regardless of allegedly being seen, Heuermann made no attempt to get rid of the distinctive truck — which was nonetheless registered to him in 2022, 12 years later, the paperwork acknowledged.

Archived Google Map avenue views from 2011 – the 12 months after the homicide investigation into the so-called “Gilgo 4” was launched – present it was recurrently parked outdoors his 1st Avenue residence, each on the road and within the driveway.

Suffolk County cops didn’t instantly return messages early Monday looking for clarification on precisely when information on the Avalanche was first given.

However Commissioner Harrison reportedly advised that it solely got here when the unidentified pimp spoke to a activity power final 12 months, telling them they “would possibly need to look” on the Avalanche-driving “ogre.”

“As soon as we received that automotive, who it linked to, that’s when the investigation received legs,” Harrison informed the paper.

Heuermann was arrested outdoors his midtown Manhattan workplace Thursday and charged with murdering Costello, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, and Megan Waterman, 22.

He was additionally named the prime suspect within the loss of life of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25.

Heuermann pleaded not responsible on Friday.