Now, with the trial still months away, the defense's strategy is beginning to take shape. Mr. Heuermann's lawyer, Michael J. Brown, has begun to float an alternate theory about the case: that the investigation into the murders was tainted years ago by the involvement of a now-disgraced Long Island police chief.
Mr. Brown repeated his client's claims of innocence and suggested that the real killer might have eluded arrest years ago when Mr. Burke was running the investigation. He even suggested that Mr. Burke himself might have been involved in the four Gilgo killings.
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