A&E The Killing Season 2016: Joshua Zeman & Rachel Mills Gilgo Beach investigation had David Schaller tip on hulking 'John' and Chevrolet Avalanche

A&E The Killing Season 2016: Joshua Zeman & Rachel Mills Gilgo Beach investigation had David Schaller tip on a hulking 'John' and green Chevrolet Avalanche truck seven years ago, what he hell? NYP writes: The Long Island man whose tip proved key to nailing Gilgo Beach murder suspect Rex Heuermann wants to know why it took police more than a decade to follow up on his lead. “I gave them the exact description of the truck and the dude,” David Schaller said in his first interview since the accused serial killer’s arrest July 13. “I mean, come on! Why didn’t they use that?” Over the course of 18 months, Suffolk Country painstakingly built a case against Rex Heuermann, a suspect in the Gilgo Beach serial murders. A damning piece of evidence against him was a distinctive first-generation Chevrolet Avalanche.

"When I heard that Rex Heuermann had a timeshare in Las Vegas, obviously my ears perked up. … Is he a gambler or is he going to an area that has a very robust victim pool, i.e., sex workers?" said Josh Zeman, a documentarian who interviewed David Schaller in 2016 for A&E's "The Killing Season." The docuseries touched on several predictions that turned out to be true years later with Rex Heuermann's arrest – including that the suspect would be a Big Apple commuter from Massapequa who may be into duck hunting.

David Schaller, who lived with Gilgo Beach victim Amber Lynn Costello before she disappeared in September 2010, told cops at the time that the man he believed to be her abductor looked like a hulking “ogre” with an “empty gaze” who drove a distinctive first-generation green Chevy Avalanche. David Schaller’s information helped finally identify Rex Heuermann, a Massapequa Park architect, as a suspect in the murder of Costello and at least two of the other slain women. Rex Heuermann, a massive figure who drove a Chevy Avalanche, fit David Schaller’s description of Amber Costello’s violent “client” to a tee. “This was crucial information, and I don’t know why they didn’t share it,” said former Suffolk County Police Detective Rob Trotta, now a county legislator. “They made serious blunders here.” Cops should have paid attention to 'The Killing Season' expose on the Gilgo Beach killer back in 2016!

GILGO BEACH KILLER WAS HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: As a licensed private investigator in Florida I have access to the Florida Motor Vehicle Registration and Florida Drivers License information which I use to locate people. I know for a fact that Law Enforcement has access to reverse search the motor vehicle registration database. On Long Island in 2010, if cops had done a reverse search for a 2002 to 2006 dark green 1st Generation Chevrolet Avalanche truck registered on Long Island and nearby Queens NY they would have obtained a list of maybe 300 to 400 such vehicles. If Long Island cops did a search of the drivers license information (photo and height) of the 300 to 400 such registered owners of a 2002 to 2006 dark green Chevrolet Avalanche truck on Long Island and nearby Queens looking for white male driver 6' 2" and taller they would have about 80 or so matches and would have had Rex Heuermann a white male who is 6' 4" tall on the list along with his address on LI directly across the bay from Gilgo Beach, I would have called that a very solid 'clue'.

David Schaller said during the 2016 A&E documentary 'The Killing Season' that was about the Gilgo case, that he dropped Amber Costello off to a client who offered to pay her for the entire night. “This one guy kept calling, and she said he wants it for the night,” he said in the 2016 A&E documentary clip. ” ‘Did he throw money at you, said Josh Zeman?’ ‘Yeah, $1,500.’ It was too much money. I mean, $1,500 bucks,” David Schaller said. Police said Schaller’s tip, along with burner phone records and DNA pulled from a half-eaten pizza crust, all helped lead them to Heuermann, who was arrested outside his Midtown offices. Too little, too late.

The A&E Killing Season in Nov 2016 starts with Zeman and Mills going back to Long Island’s Ocean Parkway, a dark, desolate stretch of highway where in 2010 police uncovered four female bodies wrapped in camouflage burlap bags who would later be referred to by investigators as the Gilgo Beach 4. The body count eventually rose to 10, where potentially all could be victims of the Long Island Serial Killer (a.k.a. LISK). The eight-episode, can’t-turn-away docuseries is a candid, emotional and active investigation into identifying these serial killers. “We’re all like, ‘This is going to get solved immediately,’ just because of the carnage: 10 bodies found along a roadway in Long Island, so close to New York City. It’s not like we’re talking about Detroit or Cleveland, or someplace like that. This is Long Island, where Suffolk County has the second highest paid police officers in the nation. When this case didn’t get solved, then we decided maybe it was actually worth making a feature documentary about.


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