The Suffolk County District Attorney's Office remained tight-lipped about the search, saying only that “the work of the Gilgo Beach Homicide Task Force continues.”
Heuermann was first suspected of the deaths of the “Gilgo Four” after the disappearance of the 23-year-old sex worker Shannan Gilbert in 2010 led investigators to the gruesome mass grave on and near Gilgo Beach. Gilbert's death was later ruled an accident, despite similarities to the Gilgo Four, who were also sex workers. The victims, all in their 20s, advertised their services on Craigslist.
Court documents obtained by RadarOnline.com revealed that “each of the four victims was found in a similar position, bound in a similar manner with straps or tape, with three of the victims found wrapped in burlap-like material.”
