This week’s new police search of accused Gilgo Seaside serial killer Rex Heuermann’s house on Lengthy Island caught his household abruptly — and felt “like post-traumatic stress,” their lawyer mentioned.
“It’s aggravating,” Bob Macedonio, who represents Heuermann’s spouse and kids, mentioned exterior the Massapequa Park house as cops scoured the matted home for a 3rd straight day Wednesday.
“Their lives have been turned the wrong way up, destroyed,” Macedonio mentioned. “Their private property has been taken, clearly for authorized functions. However they don’t perceive that. They don’t comprehend that. That is one thing properly past their comprehension.
“That is once more, an entire shock,” he added.
It was the second time in lower than a yr that cops scoured the accused serial killer’s house — with investigators spending 13 days there final yr.
The primary search adopted Heuermann’s arrest on homicide costs final yr linking him to the our bodies of intercourse employees whose stays have been discovered dumped alongside Ocean Parkway greater than a decade in the past.
The suspect, an architect with places of work in Midtown, is accused of killing 4 ladies who have been amongst 11 our bodies discovered dumped at and close to Gilgo Seaside between 2010 and 2011.
Macedonio, who represents Heuermann’s spouse, Asa Ellerup, arrived on the household home on Wednesday afternoon with the couple’s daughter to retrieve her automobile within the driveway.
Sources informed The Submit this week that investigators are looking for a hyperlink between Heuermann and physique elements presumably belonging to different victims.
Different legislation enforcement sources mentioned Suffolk County prosecutors are merely searching for extra proof within the case towards Heuermann, calling the present case largely circumstantial.
The accused killer has been held with out bail since his arrest, and now faces costs within the deaths of 4 ladies who labored as prostitutes — Amber Lynn Costello, 27, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Nicole Brainard-Smith, 24, and Megan Waterman, 22.
His daughter, Victoria Heuerman, 27, was house when Suffolk County cops and state troopers arrived on the door shortly after 8 a.m. Monday armed with a brand new search warrant, the lawyer mentioned.
“They knocked on the door. The whole lot was peaceable,” Macedonio mentioned. “She allow them to in. No resistance. Totally cooperative with every thing. They requested her to depart so they might execute the search warrant.
“We had her taken to a location that was secure for her and we returned to select up the automobile right now.”
Ellerup and her son, Christopher Sheridan, have been visiting South Carolina, the place they personal property.
Macedonio mentioned he has not been proven a duplicate of the search warrant.
He mentioned he was stunned “as a result of it was such an intensive search that was carried out 10 months in the past.
“I can’t think about what was missed or left behind,” he mentioned.
Police and the Suffolk County District Lawyer’s Workplace will not be offering particulars of the brand new search nor specify what it’s that investigators at the moment are searching for.
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