A police search for a body in a remote Long Island neighborhood expands into its third day Thursday, with a link to the Gilgo Beach murders looming.
Dozens of Suffolk County cops, New York City police and state police continue to search the woods near Manorville with body-sniffing canines, and the grisly search is currently underway at nearby Manorville Fire Department headquarters. A mobile command unit has been deployed to supervise the
The search is focused on a portion of the Otis Pike Preserve along Schultz Road and Wading River Manor Road, but authorities have so far been unable to confirm what prompted the massive search. is silent.
The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office did not respond to a request for comment.
On Wednesday, Suffolk District Attorney Ray Tierney confirmed in a statement that three law enforcement agencies are involved in an “ongoing investigation” in the area, but did not provide further details.
“I do not comment on the ongoing stages of an investigation,” Tierney said. “We will issue further statements if necessary.”
At least two sets of human remains were discovered in Manorville in 2011, and at least two sets of 11 bodies were eventually found dumped along a wide swath of Long Island’s Southern Shore. human remains were discovered.
Four of the victims are known as the “Gilgo Beach Four.” — Maureen Baynard-Burns, Melissa Barthelemy, Amber-Lynn Costello and Megan Waterman are all involved in the ongoing murder case.
Rex Heuerman, a large Massapequa Park architect with offices in midtown Manhattan, is pending a murder trial in this high-profile case.
Heuerman, a married father of two, is accused of murdering four women, all sex workers, after soliciting them on Craigslist and other online sex-for-hire sites. Prosecutors claim that there is.
Their bodies were discovered along Ocean Parkway in 2010, and the case remained unsolved for more than a decade until former NYPD Chief Rodney Harrison took over as Suffolk County Police Chief in 2022. The investigation was restarted.
Heuerman was identified as a suspect through cell phone data, witness statements and DNA, was arrested in July, and remained in jail without bail pending his next trial.
Investigators also discovered fraudulent Google searches on his computer and spent 13 days dismantling his home and garden in search of evidence of the gruesome murder.
However, police have not linked the other bodies to the large murder suspect.
