A new search is underway as part of the investigation into the Gilgo Beach murder, according to police sources.
Detectives began searching a wooded area in Manorville, New York, on Tuesday and the sweep continued Wednesday, ABC News reports.
The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment to the media on details of the search.
Rex Heuermann, 60, is accused of murdering four sex workers whose bodies were found buried in a remote area of Gilgo Beach more than 10 years ago.
He was arrested in July and initially charged with the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, and Amber Lynn Costello, 27.
A new search is underway as part of the investigation into the Gilgo Beach murder, according to police sources. Rex Heuermann, 60, charged with murder of four sex workers
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 murdering Amber Costello (left) and Maureen Brainard-Barnes (right)
DNA found on the burlap wrapped around Waterman’s body was a 99.96 percent match to samples taken from a pizza crust and napkin discarded in a trash bin outside the Heuermann business, police said.
In February, he was also charged with the murder of 25-year-old Maureen Brainard-Barnes.
The searches come after the father of two’s home in Massapequa was searched following the discovery of the bodies.
The women were found wrapped in burlap and buried along a secluded stretch of Ocean Parkway on Long Island’s south shore more than a decade ago.
Heuermann has pleaded not guilty to all charges and currently remains in jail awaiting trial.
The women’s remains were discovered during the search for Shannan Gilbert, 23, a New Jersey escort who disappeared in May 2010 after making a frantic 911 call.
His remains were found along 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 for Gilbert’s death and police have said it may have been an accident, but her family believes she was murdered.
The women were among 11 people found on the desolate stretch of shoreline near Heuermann’s Long Island home between 2010 and 2011.
All of the victims worked as escorts and advertised on Craigslist.
Heuermann, a father of two, has been held without bail since his arrest and has pleaded not guilty.
Police confirmed they were investigating Heuermann’s potential link to the murders of two other sex workers: Valerie Mack, 25, disappeared around the summer of 2000. Her remains were found in September, and others Remains were discovered almost 11 years later.
The Heuermann family home in Massapequa Park was demolished by authorities as they searched the property for evidence.
Heuermann was linked to the murders by DNA found on the burlap used to transport the bodies, which was compared to samples taken from a pizza crust and a napkin discarded outside his architecture firm in Manhattan, police said.
The samples had a 99.96 percent match, according to law enforcement.
Before testing DNA, cops were alerted to Heuermann as a possible suspect after a witness linked Heuermann’s Chevrolet Avalanche to Costello’s murder.
The car was later linked to Heuermann’s cell phone records, which allegedly linked him to locations linked to the murders.
The indictment said Heuermann used different cell phones to contact each of his victims.
Cops also accused Heuermann of using Barthelemy’s phone to make provocative phone calls to his family from the comfort of his office.
In October, it was revealed that Heuermann was under investigation for the murder of two other sex workers.
Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney K. Harrison confirmed he has assigned additional investigators to the cases of two other women, Valerie Mack and Karen Vergata.
At the alleged time of the murders, Asa Ellerup, now ex-wife of Heuermann, was away from home. She filed for divorce less than a week after her husband’s arrest.
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