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More than 40 firearms and 10 high-capacity magazines that belonged to a suspect in New York's Gilgo Beach killings appear to be illegally possessed, prosecutors said in a court filing Tuesday in Suffolk County.

Gilgo Beach killings suspect Rex Heuermann has petitioned the court to reclaim more than 280 guns that were seized from his home in July so he can sell them and financially help his family while in jail.

Gilgo Beach killings suspect Rex Heuermann is set to appear in a New York court on Wednesday for a hearing in his case where he has pleaded not guilty to murder in the deaths of three women more than a decade ago.

A Suffolk County judge sided with prosecutors and ruled Gilgo Beach murders suspect Rex Heuermann must provide a DNA sample, according to a court ruling filed Wednesday.

The adult children of a man charged with murder in New York's Gilgo Beach killings are "absolutely innocent bystanders that were caught up in a hellscape," the attorney representing the children told CNN on Tuesday.

Beyond the string of murders and the long elusive hunt for a suspected serial killer is the Hamlet-like tragedy of a troubled family whose legacy may be helping solve what police called "one of the most consequential homicide investigations in the history of Long Island."

No-one reported the 34-year-old missing after she vanished on Valentine's Day 1996.

Suffolk County, New York, authorities are expected to identify a Gilgo Beach murder victim that has gone nameless in the over decade-long case, according to a source familiar with the investigation.

For years, the Gilgo Beach murders terrorized New York residents and sparked conflicting theories about whether a serial killer was at large. The case grew cold for more than a decade -- then a key break came this year involving a pizza crust.

In the continuing investigation of Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect Rex Heuermann, authorities have scoured his New York home, leaving a chaotic scene for his family to return to, according to Heuermann's wife and her attorney.

The wife of the Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect Rex Heuermann and her attorney told CNN she had "no idea" of her husband's alleged actions and that the flood of public attention has been "extremely overwhelming" for the mother and her two children.

The search of Rex Heuermann's Long Island home has ended after investigators turned up "quite a lot of evidence" in the Gilgo Beach serial killings, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said Tuesday.