Investigators dig up Long Island killings suspect Rex Heuermann’s backyard with excavator

An excavator was seen over the weekend digging up the yard of the house of the suspect in a number of killings on New York’s Lengthy Island and the heavy gear was nonetheless behind Rex Heuermann’s home Monday morning. In line with regulation enforcement sources, investigators are wanting into whether or not any victims could have been killed on the home, CBS Information senior investigative producer Pat Milton reported final week.

Heuermann has been accused of killing three ladies and is the prime suspect in a fourth within the yearslong investigation into the Gilgo Seashore killings. Heuermann pleaded not responsible to homicide expenses after he was arrested in New York Metropolis earlier this month.

Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison instructed reporters Monday that investigators are utilizing ground-penetrating sonar on the home in addition to cadaver canines, CBS New York’s Carolyn Gusoff reported. Harrison stated quite a few objects have been taken from the home and the search of the property needs to be over within the subsequent day or two.

Investigators have shovels and are digging round the home’s basis, Gusoff reported.  

A wood deck on the Massapequa Park home Heuermann shares together with his spouse Asa Ellerup and two grownup youngsters has been dismantled and police have put up a tent the place the entrance porch was, Gusoff reported.

In line with regulation enforcement sources, Ellerup and the kids had been away from the home on the time of the killings, Milton reported. Ellerup filed for divorce final week.

“There’s completely no proof that anybody acted with the defendant, a lot much less his household,” Suffolk County District Lawyer Raymond Tierney instructed CBS Information in an interview.