Investigators continued utilizing heavy equipment to dig up the yard of suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann on Monday — as police revealed his blasé first phrases when he realized he was lastly being arrested.
A backhoe was seen early Monday persevering with the macabre dig at Heuermann’s Massapequa Park residence — the place The Post revealed {that a} suspected soundproof room was discovered within the married dad of two’s basement.
Officers sporting white lab-style protecting fits continued the painstaking seek for doable buried proof with the assistance of cadaver canines and specialised radar gadgets.
They are on the lookout for “hint proof, blood, DNA” in addition to doable “trophies,” Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney mentioned final week.
“Normally, individuals maintain mementos of serious occasions of their life, in order that’s what we’re on the lookout for,” the DA informed Newsday on Thursday.
The heavy equipment introduced in over the weekend marked a significant intensification of the search that began 12 days in the past when the architect was busted exterior his Midtown Manhattan workplace.
Officials have but to disclose if the continued dig and intense search of Heuermann’s residence — in addition to his workplace, automobiles and different properties, in South Carolina and Las Vegas — have unearthed new alleged proof more likely to be key within the case.
Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison refused to debate it with NBC News in an interview that aired Monday, solely noting the “disturbing” discovery of greater than 200 weapons.
However, he revealed how dismissive Heuermann, 59, had been when he was busted and accused of murdering three of the “Gilgo Four,” and named the prime suspect within the fourth.
“He very a lot mentioned, ‘What am I right here for? I don’t know nothing of what you’re speaking about,’” the highest cop mentioned.
Harrison beforehand mentioned that a part of the rationale Heuermann was busted in Midtown was “to see if we might catch him by his office, take that lengthy trip from thirty fifth and Fifth out to 30 Yaphank — which could possibly be a one-and-a-half-hour trip — and see if he might discuss and quit something.”
Instead, “He requested for a lawyer — and that was the tip of the dialog,” Harrison mentioned, telling People that the suspected killer “saved to himself” and made “no statements” when taken into custody.
Once booked into jail, he reportedly solely requested, “Is it within the information?”
Heuermann’s spouse of 25 years, Asa Ellerup, additionally 59, filed for divorce days after his arrest. She’d been “disgusted,” “shocked” and “embarrassed” on the information — earlier than telling officers, “OK, it’s what it’s,” Harrison beforehand mentioned.
Heuermann has pleaded not responsible to a few counts of homicide within the deaths of Amber Lynn Costello, 27, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, and Megan Waterman, 22. He has been named “prime suspect” within the demise of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, and police proceed to study different chilly instances.
