Gilgo Beach Slayings Suspect Lured Women To His Home: Report

MASSAPEQUA PARK, NY — Investigators probing Rex Heuermann have been working on a theory since the spring that he committed the Gilgo Beach slayings in his Massapequa Park home, a source told CNN.

The womens' disappearances taking place during times that his family was away is indicative that he might have lured them there, sources familiar with the investigation told the network.

Heuermann reportedly shares his home with his wife, stepson, and daughter.

Committing the killings at home would have made it possible to control the environment the victims were in and to allow access to materials found at the crime scene, including tape and burlap bags, the source said.

Patch has reached out to Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney's office for comment.

Heuermann was charged last Friday with three counts each of first-and second-degree murder in the deaths of Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Lynn Costello, and Megan Waterman.

Heuermann is the prime suspect in the death of Maureen Brainard-Barnes.

All four women were sex workers whose remains were found buried along Ocean Parkway in December 2010.

His family was out of the tri-state area when the three women disappeared, authorities have said.

Heuermann had been using burner phones and fictitious identities to arrange dates for himself, according to a bail application filed by Tierney's office.

A burner cell phone traced to Heuermann was used to call Barthelemy's cell phone four times before she disappeared.

On the last night Bathelemy was seen alive, July 10, 2009, the burner phone traced to Heuermann was pinged from Massapequa Park to midtown Manhattan, then her phone from midtown Manhattan to Massapequa at around 1:45 a.m. Her phone was used to call her voicemail from a location in Freeport, and then later from West Babylon on the same day and day after on July 12.

Taunting calls were later made to her family on July 17, 23, and then Aug. 5, 19, and 26.

Waterman was last seen alive at the Holiday Inn in Hauppauge on June 6, 2010.

A burner phone traced to Heuermann contacted her phone at around 1:31 a.m. on June 5.

Waterman's phone was later traced to near Heuermann's home at around 3:11 a.m. on June 6.

Investigators have been meticulously removing items from Heuermann's home since his arrest last week.

Heuermann kept a torn, stained shirt, and handcuff keys in a workshop at his home, according to DailyMail.com.

A staffer for the outlet spotted an investigator carrying a note with a list of some of evidence, which included a rope kept in a vault, a torn man's shirt with a stain in a bag, and handcuff keys in a shelf underneath a work bench.

Since 2010, investigators found a total of 11 sets of remains at Gilgo Beach, including a toddler and an Asian male.

No other charges have been filed.

Heuermann has pleaded not guilty, and his attorney has maintains his client's innocence.

In a separate development this week, Heuermann's wife, Asa Ellerup, filed for divorce.