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State and native legislation enforcement have launched a brand new search in a wooded space of Long Island, as a part of the continued investigation into the grisly Gilgo Beach murders.

Officers descended on an space of Long Island’s Manorville on Wednesday, in accordance with a legislation enforcement supply with data of the state of affairs who spoke to NBC New York. Exact particulars on the search web site, together with the exact location and what investigators have been trying to find, weren’t offered.

Manhattan architect Rex Heuermann has been charged in reference to the deaths of 4 girls – now often called the “Gilgo Four” – whose our bodies have been discovered close to the seashore greater than a decade in the past. He was arrested in July 2023.

The girls have been recognized as Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes and Amber Costello, whose our bodies have been discovered lined in burlap in December 2010, in accordance with courtroom data.

Mr Heuermann, 60, was initially charged with killing Barthelemy, Waterman and Costello. He was charged with killing Brainard-Barnes, in January of this yr.

The 4 girls’s stays have been discovered alongside a quarter-mile stretch of parkway within the Gilgo Beach space of Jones Beach Island in 2010. Additional looking turned up the stays of six extra adults and a toddler. No arrests have been made within the deaths of the latter victims.

Heuermann has pleaded not responsible to the 4 killings he’s charged with and is awaiting trial in jail.

Manorville was residence to the positioning the place two units of stays of younger girls, Valerie Mack and Jessica Taylor have been discovered greater than 20 years in the past – in 2000 and 2003, respectively. Both girls have been intercourse staff on the time of their disappearance.

Further stays of each girls have been additionally throughout a parallel search alongside Gilgo Beach’s Ocean Parkway in 2011.

The new investigations come after Heuermann’s estranged spouse final month mentioned she didn’t imagine he was able to the crimes he’s accused of and he or she visits him in jail weekly regardless of pending divorce proceedings.

Asa Ellerup filed for divorce within the days after Heuermann’s arrest, however advised outlet Newsday in an announcement issued via her lawyer that she would “listen to all of the evidence and withhold judgment until the end of trial.”

Ms Ellerup added, “I have given Rex the benefit of the doubt, as we all deserve.”