Police search Lengthy Island storage unit related to Gilgo Seashore serial killer investigation

Police searched a Lengthy Island storage unit related to suspected Gilgo Seashore serial killer Rex Heuermann Sunday night time as investigators proceed to scour for proof within the long-unsolved murders.

Suffolk police executed a search warrant at a single unit positioned at Omega Self Storage in Amityville “in relation to the Gilgo suspect case,” Suffolk police told News12 Long Island.

A number of police cruisers had been seen on the unit, positioned at 185 Dawn Hwy., late Sunday night time and crime scene tape cordoned off the doorway to the car parking zone in entrance of the locked models, in accordance with pictures taken by The Publish.

Earlier within the day, state police confiscated hoards of guns together with a large child-like doll, cat meals, a scratching submit, an empty bookcase and a framed image from Heuermann’s dwelling in Massapequa Park, only a brief drive away from the storage unit.

“We’re simply going via his home trying to see if there’s any proof,” a police supply instructed The Publish of the search of the alleged killer’s dwelling. “If he has any trophies.”

Heuermann, a 59-year-old married father and architect at a Manhattan agency, was arrested and charged Friday with the 2010 killings of Malissa Barthelemy, 24; Megan Waterman, 22; and Amber Costello, 27. He’s additionally the prime suspect within the homicide of a fourth girl, 25-year-old Maureen Brainard-Barnes, however hasn’t been charged in her killing.

The 4 girls’s stays had been discovered wrapped in burlap and discarded alongside Ocean Parkway close to Gilgo Seashore in December 2010.

By spring of the next 12 months, the variety of our bodies discovered alongside the identical stretch climbed to 10 — together with eight girls, an unidentified man and a toddler.

Their killings remained unsolved in a case that went chilly for greater than a decade till Suffolk County’s new police commissioner created a particular Gilgo Seashore Murder Investigation Job Power in February 2022.

The Lengthy Island dad of two was linked to the killings after his DNA left on discarded pizza crust was positively matched to DNA left behind on the physique of Waterman.

Heuermann pleaded not guilty to the three murders throughout a Friday court docket look.

When requested in regards to the storage unit search by The Publish, Suffolk Police referred all questions associated to the investigation to the Suffolk County District Lawyer’s Workplace, which couldn’t be instantly reached.