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MANORVILLE, N.Y. – Law enforcement sources opportunity a hunt conducted successful nan eastbound Long Island organization of Manorville, New York, wherever partial remains of 2 of nan 11 Gilgo Beach victims were discovered, is connected to nan ongoing investigation successful nan case.
Suffolk County constabulary deferred remark to nan territory attorney’s office. District Attorney Ray Tierney's agency declined to corroborate a relationship to nan Gilgo victims but acknowledged a hunt was underway successful nan area this week.
"The Suffolk County Police Department, nan New York Police Department and nan New York State Police are moving pinch nan District Attorney's Office connected an ongoing investigation," his agency said successful a statement. "We do not remark connected investigative steps while they are underway. We will make further statements erstwhile appropriate."
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A Suffolk County constabulary serviceman and K-9 portion searches a wooded area successful Manorville, New York, connected Thursday, April 25, 2024. The hunt reportedly pertains to nan ongoing investigation into nan Gilgo Beach murders. Of nan 11 bodies recovered adjacent nan formation successful 2010 and 2011, only 4 person resulted successful charges, each against suspected serial slayer Rex Heuermann. (Matt Agudo for Fox News Digital)
Suffolk constabulary recovered 11 sets of remains on a distant agelong of Ocean Parkway successful 2010 and 2011 aft a female named Shannan Gilbert called 911 for thief and vanished from nan gated organization of Oak Beach.
Among them were the Gilgo Four, Melissa Barthelemy, 24; Megan Waterman, 22; Amber Costello, 27; and Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25.
It could beryllium nan first clip ever we've had 2 serial killers usage nan aforesaid dump site, but I uncertainty it.
— John Kelly, criminal profilerPolice arrested New York City designer Rex Heurmann successful relationship pinch those slayings successful July. He lived a 20-minute thrust from Gilgo Beach successful Massapequa Park.
After Heuermann's arraignment, Tierney vowed to proceed utilizing nan expansive assemblage process to analyse nan different deaths.
"It could beryllium [grand assemblage related[, but I don’t deliberation it is," Joseph Giacalone, a erstwhile NYPD sergeant and cold lawsuit expert who teaches astatine nan John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said of nan caller Manorville hunt effort. "I deliberation it comes successful arsenic a extremity that must’ve had immoderate corroboration."
Alleged Gilgo Beach serial slayer Rex A. Heuermann appears successful Judge Tim Mazzei’s courtroom adjacent to his lawyer Michael Brown successful Suffolk County Court successful Riverhead, New York, connected Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (James Carbone/Newsday/Pool)
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He praised nan county's handling of nan investigation and willingness to see whether location whitethorn beryllium further victims.
Gilbert’s remains were nan past ones found, and constabulary years later said she had died accidentally, though her charismatic origin of decease was ruled undetermined.
However, they still person six unsolved cases, and 2 of those victims, Jessica Taylor and Valerie Mack, were dismembered and dumped successful abstracted locations. Police first discovered their partial remains successful Manorville successful 2000 and 2003. Additional remains of some victims were uncovered successful nan hunt for Gilbert successful 2011.
Jessica Taylor, left, and Valerie Mack were some murdered and dismembered. Suffolk County constabulary discovered partial remains of each unfortunate successful some Manorville, New York, and on a agelong of Ocean Parkway adjacent Gilgo Beach. (Suffolk County Police Department/Handout)
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Heuermann has pleaded not blameworthy to nan Gilgo Four murders and has not been named a fishy successful nan different deaths.
Tierney, nan territory lawyer who is besides nan lead charismatic against Heuermann, has vowed that a expansive assemblage investigation will proceed to excavation into nan different cases.
"John Bittrolff lived not far," Giacalone said, referring to different Long Island serial slayer who prowled nan area successful nan 1990s. "Jessica Taylor and Valerie Mack were recovered not acold from there, and nan remainder successful Gilgo."
The "Gilgo Four" clockwise from apical left: Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello. The inheritance shows a woody transverse successful nan marsh adjacent to Gilgo Beach, New York, wherever their remains were recovered successful nan brushwood conscionable yards from Ocean Parkway. (Suffolk County Police Department/Mega for Fox News Digital)
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John Bittrolff, different Long Island serial killer, is presently serving 2 consecutive 25-year to life sentences successful situation for nan murders of Rita Tangredi, 31 and and Colleen McNamee, 20, whose remains were recovered stripped naked successful Manorville successful 1993 and 1994. Both had been strangled and showed signs of terrible caput trauma.
His victims were past seen successful adjacent communities – but he besides lived successful Manorville and was astatine 1 constituent considered a fishy successful nan Gilgo murders.
Former Suffolk County Assistant District Attorney Robert Biancavilla, who prosecuted Bittrolff for nan Tangredi and McNamee murders, said after sentencing that nan slayer whitethorn person been progressive successful astatine slightest 1 of nan Gilgo cases.
In this July 31, 2014 record photo, John Bittrolff listens to his attorney, William Keahon, during his arraignment connected execution charges successful Riverhead, New York. Suffolk County Assistant District Attorney Robert Biancavilla said Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017 that Bittrolff, convicted of sidesplitting 2 prostitutes successful nan 1990s, whitethorn beryllium responsible for astatine slightest 1 of nan 10 unsolved killings of group on a Long Island formation highway. (James Carbone/Newsday via AP, Pool, File)
Bittrolff's attorney, Jonathan Manley, denied nan declare and said it was a "laughable" effort to get media attraction connected nan unsolved cases.
However, John Kelly, a criminal profiler who has been pursuing nan lawsuit for much than a decade, said location whitethorn beryllium thing to Biancavilla's prediction.
"I deliberation assemblage parts is really not thing we tin link correct now to Rex," he said, noting Hueurmann's alleged victims were recovered intact and concealed successful camouflaged burlap utilized by duck hunters.
A roadworthy motion directing drivers to Gilgo Beach disconnected Ocean Parkway, astir 45 miles eastbound of New York City. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)
"Bittrolff was a poser and a cutter," Kelly told Fox News Digital. "He wanted his past victims, that we cognize of, to beryllium found."
He believes nan convicted slayer apt has further victims and that investigators apt would cognize if nan lawsuit is connected if they do find further remains successful Manorville.
Although some men were accused of killing prostitutes, Kelly said Bittrolff differed from Heuermann successful 2 cardinal ways. Bittrolff met his victims successful personification alternatively than online, and some Mack and Taylor vanished erstwhile net usage was not arsenic wide arsenic erstwhile constabulary alleged Hueurmann was gathering victims connected Craigslist and making love apps.
Alleged Gilgo Beach serial slayer Rex A. Heuermann appears successful Judge Tim Mazzei’s courtroom adjacent to his lawyer Michael Brown successful Suffolk County Court successful Riverhead, New York, connected Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (James Carbone/Newsday/Pool)
Additionally, nan Gilgo Four were concealed successful brushwood and camouflaged burlap, while Bittrolff's victims were near to beryllium found.
"He liked to airs them arsenic a measurement of daze worth for investigators," Kelly said.
The erstwhile carpenter was besides a huntsman who allegedly ate a deer's bosom earthy successful a bizarre ritual.
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Bittrolff has besides been suspected but not charged successful different homicide, nan execution of Sandra Costilla.
"He knew those woods for illustration nan backmost of his manus successful Manorville," Kelly said. "He was ever retired location hunting."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
