Police extend the search from Manorville deeper into the woods

The police search in Manorville and surrounding areas continued into its fifth day Saturday, with Suffolk County police and New York State K-9 units searching deeper into the woods than in previous days as Gilgo’s investigation Beach continues to expand into new areas. .

Four Suffolk K-9 teams were spotted near the power lines west of Nugent Drive in Calverton, not far from the Suffolk County Jail, where suspected Gilgo Beach killer Rex A. Heuermann has been housed since his arrest last July. The New York State Police were also spotted south of the highway again and began their morning in the woods east of Chapman Boulevard and County Road 111.

This was the second day in a row that police crossed the LIE after concentrating their efforts from the first three on parts of the forest to the north. On Friday, provincial police also searched woods 30 kilometers away in the North Sea hamlet of Southampton Town at the site of an unsolved 1993 murder.

The lengthy search is part of the Gilgo Beach homicide investigation, sources told Newsday.

Police and prosecutors have declined to discuss the details of the search for cadaver dogs, including what, if anything, has been found since the multi-agency effort began Tuesday.

“We do not comment on investigative steps while they are underway,” said a statement from the office of Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney. “We will make further statements as necessary.”

On Friday evening, an NYPD pickup truck that had spent all day in the woods returned to the Manorville Fire Station and parked in front of the Suffolk Mobile Command Center. The police had already been stationed on the site for several days. Officers put on rubber gloves and retrieved various items from a key box on the truck. It was not clear what they brought back.

On Saturday, state police were seen returning to their trucks parked on the Paumanok Path near Mill Road to retrieve shovels. They returned empty-handed a short time later, but then drove one of the trucks deeper into the forest.

Police have so far searched much of the woods north of the Manorville exits and south of Middle Country Road, including parts of Calverton, Ridge and even a federal preserve on the grounds of the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton. Manorville itself has over 6,900 hectares of Pine Barrens, a protected forest area.

Manorville, a 25-square-mile rural hamlet located in the central Long Island Pine Barrens, is where the partial remains of two women named as victims in the Gilgo Beach investigation were found more than two decades ago .

In November 2000, partial remains of New Jersey native Valerie Mack were found in a wooded area west of Halsey Manor Road near Mill Road.

In 2003, partial remains of Jessica Taylor, who lived for a time in the Bronx, were located about a mile south near the LIE.

Other remains of both women, who had been sex workers, were later found along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo. No arrests have been made in the murders of Taylor and Mack.

Heuermann, an architect from Massapequa Park, was charged in four other Gilgo Beach murder cases. None of his alleged victims had remains in Manorville.