Officers searched a Long Island storage unit connected to the Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann on Sunday night as authorities continue looking for evidence.
Suffolk police said they executed a search warrant at a single unit located at Omega Self Storage in Amityville in relation to the Gilgo suspect case.
Several police cruisers were seen at the unit at 185 Sunrise Highway late Sunday, and crime scene tape cordoned off the entrance to the parking lot in front of the facility.
Earlier in the day, police confiscated a mass amount of guns from Heuermann’s home in Massapequa Park, which is not far from the storage unit’s location. Police had previously taken other items from the home, including a large child-like doll, cat food, a scratching post, a framed picture, and an empty bookcase.
“We’re just going through his house looking to see if there’s any evidence, if he has any trophies,” a police source said.
Heuermann, a 59-year-old married father and architect at a Manhattan firm, was arrested Thursday and charged with the 2010 killings of Malissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, and Amber Costello, 27. He is also the prime suspect in the murder of a fourth woman, 25-year-old Maureen Brainard-Barnes.
The four women’s remains were found wrapped in burlap and discarded along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach in December 2010.
By spring the next year, the number of bodies found along the same stretch climbed to 10, including eight women, an unidentified man and a toddler.
Their killings remained unsolved in a case that went cold for more than a decade until Suffolk County’s new police commissioner created a special Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation Task Force in February 2022.
The Long Island dad of two was linked to the killings partly because his DNA left on discarded pizza crust was positively matched to DNA left behind on the body of Waterman.
Heuermann pleaded not guilty to the three murders during a Friday court appearance.
