Investigators and state police have invaded the Massapequa Park home of alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann with a new search warrant.
Police arrived early Monday morning at the home where Heuermann’s estranged wife, Asa Ellerup, and their two adult children, Victoria and Christopher, live.
Asa Ellerup’s lawyer, Robert Macedonio, said NewsNationNow that “no family member was home when the police arrived.”
It is unclear at this time what prompted Monday’s search of the Long Island property or what officials were looking for.
The Suffolk County district attorney’s office declined to comment other than to say that “the work of the Gilgo Beach homicide task force continues.”
Investigators and state police raided the Massapequa Park home of suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann with a new search warrant. He will be seen in court in February.
An aerial view of police at the Massapequa Park home of suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann.
Heuermann, 60, is awaiting trial and faces murder charges for killing four women whose bodies were found wrapped up on a stretch of Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach.
He was arrested in July and initially charged with killing Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, and Amber Lynn Costello, 27.
In February, he was also charged with the murder of 25-year-old Maureen Brainard-Barnes.
Heuermann has pleaded not guilty to all charges and currently remains in prison awaiting trial.
Last month, it was revealed that a new search was underway in connection with the Gilgo Beach murder investigation.
Detectives began searching a wooded area in Manorville, New York, in April.
The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment on the details of the search.
The new searches came after the father-of-two’s home in Massapequa was raided following the discovery of the bodies.
The women were found wrapped in burlap and buried along the remote stretch of Ocean Parkway on Long Island’s south shore more than a decade ago.
The women’s remains were discovered during the search for Shannan Gilbert, 23, a New Jersey escort who had disappeared in May 2010 after making a frantic 911 call.
His remains were found on the same stretch of coast in December 2011, and it was his body that led police to the discovery of the ‘Gilgo Four’.
No one has ever been charged with Gilbert’s death and police said it may have been accidental, but her family believes she was murdered.
The new searches came after the father-of-two’s home in Massapequa was raided following the discovery of the bodies.
The first victim, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, was discovered by Suffolk County police on December 11, 2010. The body of Megan Waterman, 22, of Maine, was found two days later.
Heuermann is also accused of killing Amber Costello (left) and Maureen Brainard-Barnes (right).
Heuermann has pleaded not guilty to all charges and currently remains in prison awaiting trial.
The women were among 11 found on the desolate stretch of coast near Heuermann’s Long Island home between 2010 and 2011.
All of the victims worked as escorts who advertised on Craigslist.
Heuermann was linked to the murders by DNA on the burlap used to transport the body, which was matched to samples taken from a pizza dough and a napkin that were discarded outside his Manhattan architecture studio, police said.
The samples showed a 99.96 percent match, according to authorities.
Before conducting DNA testing, police said they were alerted to Heuermann as a possible suspect after a witness linked Heuermann’s Chevrolet Avalanche to Costello’s murder.
The car was then linked to Heuermann’s cell phone records, which allegedly linked him to locations related to the murders.
The indictment alleged that Heuermann had used different disposable phones to contact each of his victims.
The Heuermann family home in Massapequa Park was vandalized by authorities as they combed the property for evidence.
Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann is “not capable” of committing the brutal murders he has been accused of, according to his ex-wife Asa Ellerup (pictured)
Cops also accused Heuermann of using Barthelemy’s phone to make taunting phone calls to his family from the comfort of his office.
Her sister Melissa told how she was bombarded with threatening phone calls from the killer who boasted about the murder and monitored her movements.
In October, it was revealed that Heuermann is being investigated for the murder of two other sex workers.
The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment on the nature of the new search. Pictured: Investigators dressed in front of Heuermann’s home last July.
His ex-wife, Asa Ellerup (pictured) was also seen pulling up in a black Mercedes in front of the Long Island courthouse.
Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney K. Harrison confirmed that he had assigned additional investigators to the case of two other women, Valerie Mack and Karen Vergata.
At the time the murders are suspected, Heuermann’s now ex-wife, Asa Ellerup, was away from home. She filed for divorce less than a week after her husband’s arrest.
