A law enforcement expert is urging investigators to search an expansive nature preserve for bodies given its proximity to the home of accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann, the New York Post reports.
The 430-acre Massapequa Preserve includes secluded and overgrown woods that would be viable places to hide victims, Joseph Giacalone told the newspaper. It’s just blocks from Heuermann’s home in Massapequa Park.
“There is this long, dark road that you can take and you could just pull off on the side of the road, do what you got to do, get back in the car and go,” Giacalone, a retired NYPD detective and professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, told the Post.
“No cameras, nothing like that. No traffic lights. It’s an ideal place.”
As CrimeOnline previously reported, Heuermann allegedly encountered a woman at Brady Park, which borders the preserve, days before his arrest. That woman, a 25-year-old woman named Ally, told the Post that on July 3, she was riding her bike when a man came up from behind her and inquired about the time.
“He was trying to compliment me. Asking me if I came here often. Asking me my name,” Ally told the newspaper. “He had very dirty clothes on. He popped right out of the woods. Everywhere I went in the woods he would pop out somewhere.
Ally told the Post she is confident that man is Heuermann.
“The first time he came up behind me I felt like breathing behind me. Then he asked me what time it was and he saw the picture of me and my boyfriend on my phone. So he was just asking me questions,” she told the Post.
Heuermann, 59, has pleaded not guilty to charges of first- and second-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello, whose bodies were found buried on Long Island’s Gilgo Beach in 2010.
He is also the prime suspect in the death of Maureen Brainard-Barnes and authorities across the country are exploring whether he might be involved in other unsolved cases.
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[Feature Photo: Authorities continue to work at the home of suspect Rex Heuermann, bottom right, in Massapequa Park, N.Y., Monday, July 24, 2023. Heuermann has been charged with killing at least three women in the long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)]
