July 21, 2023
'Investigators in Gilgo Beach case operating on theory that the killings occurred in suspect’s home'
Updated 9:11 AM EDT, Fri
July 21, 2023
"Since the spring of this year, investigators looking into the
Gilgo Beach serial killings case have been o
perating on the theory that the suspect, Rex Heuermann, committed the killings in his Massapequa Park, New York, home.
A source involved in the investigation told CNN the fact that the disappearances occurred during times his family was out of town suggests he may have lured victims to the Long Island home.
Investigators believe committing the killings at home would have g
iven Heuermann control of the environment and access to materials that were found at the crime scene, including tape and burlap bags, the source said."
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NOT saying he didn't commit crimes in the home. He might have. The victims they've charged him for up to now are all strangulation victims, no blood that we're aware of. But aside from giving him control if he killed at home, it would also give LE potentially
powerful and
more obvious DNA evidence in his actual residence in the event they tracked him somehow. If he left anything-- anything at all on those remains, and we see
he did-- they'd come back to the house one, ten, twenty, maybe thirty years later, and that's a potential "bingo" moment and curtains for RH if they find anything there as well. I think for the most part he put his odds on them eventually finding the bodies out in the woods
much later (which happened) and never being able to tie back to him & the home. Everything would be too decomposed. And whatever they found "out in the field" would be too "weak" to track back to his doorstep. But he might also have figured it would be
too late for recovery of anything in the home by the time they arrived at the doorstep, and he may be right. How likely is it they'd find a hair from any of the Gilgo Four victims a decade after the fact
in his residence? Even if he killed them there. I'd say not too likely. But MOO, he probably killed elsewhere and hedged his bets a bit, meticulous to some degree on what actually would be left at the home itself.
With the vehicle he had, it would be of minimal inconvenience for him to have burlap and tape on hand in the vehicle. With his own devious goals in mind, and his level of intelligence, I would think he would veer away from
actual murder in the home. I think he did all the Gilgo murders, so I think he
dismembered women's bodies. I don't think he'd risk it in the home, which means he had some "set up" or "system" for doing it elsewhere. If he did all the murders, he dismembered before he
stopped dismembering, which means with this theory he'd already have
"gotten used to" avoiding actual murder in the home.
That doesn't mean it's the case, though. And even if he did his gruesome deeds "out in the field" for the most part, it also doesn't mean he didn't engage in activities inside/near the home which he viewed as "lower risk" that also might have yielded some kind of potential DNA, even years later. Anything's possible right now. So watching to see the results of the Manorville search & his recent home search with great interest, that's for sure.
