On the morning of May 17, police helicopters clattered overhead and squad cars again closed off the block in suburban Massapequa Park, just as they had a year before.
The first search had been immediately after the hulking architect in the ramshackle house on First Avenue was arrested as the Gilgo Beach Killer. It lasted for 13 days in July of 2023, and it seemed the investigators must have collected everything of evidentiary value from the ranch house Rex Heuermann shared with his wife and two grown children, a daughter in her 20s and a stepson in his early 30s.
Heuermann was indicted for murdering four young sex workers whose remains had been among 10 bodies dumped roughly 500 feet apart along a deserted quarter mile stretch of beach previously known as one of Long Island’s better surfing spots. The Gilgo Four, as they were called, had disappeared between July, 2007 and September 2010.
