The source for the article is John Ray and is mostly quotes/statements/ allegations from him. It's fairly wordy but an interesting read.
It also strikes me after reading about all this child *advertiser censored* etc stuff re Burke, that the Burke Spoto relationship may perhaps have been "sexual" in nature - beginning when Burke was only 14 yrs old, with Spoto "grooming" him etc and that is why the tie is so strong. I don't know much of anything from that time period so obvi just my specualtion.
See snippets from the article below - Ray alleges childporn was taken from Rex's house - not confirmed by LE - and Ray wonders if there are ties between the Rex and Burke.
After reading through this piece - if some of the claims have any validity, it would seem that Burke needs to stay as far away from the investigation as possible so not to taint it. Also an independent investigation should be opened to look into Burke. Otherwise I can see Rex's attorney using Burke and his obvious deviant proclivities - which were totally unchecked it seems - to" muddy" the waters. Hopefully there are not any of Burke's "guys " currently working on the task force as those optics could be fuel for Rex's lawyer also.
Burke is kind of a one man cess pool IMO - but I imagine it goes much much deeper
"Ray said that he also recently heard that during a search of Heuermann's home,
police unearthed a "huge cache" of child *advertiser censored*.....
The Suffolk County Sheriff's Office declined to comment on the claims, adding that they are not sharing any additional information about the search at this time.
But Ray said should the rumors prove to be true, investigators should look at any potential social ties between Heuermann and Burke.
"If you have a cache of different videos and that kind of thing, the chances that you're trading on the black market or on the dark web - those kinds of things - is very high," said Ray....
He also wants a full and thorough investigation to be conducted into what he claims was
decades of rampant corruption within the Suffolk County ranks prior to Burke's arrest in 2015.
"When Burke became involved in the Gilgo investigation, he was the driving force in delaying it and distracting people from it in an attempt to shut it down - and that continued until he was gone," claimed Ray.
"His reach was significant [...] and there has to be more to this...
Ray believes that the full extent of Burke's seeming double life and corruption is yet to be realized.
He believes Burke needs to be rigorously re-examined by an independent - preferably federal - law enforcement agency, particularly in connection with the remaining unsolved killings in Gilgo."