Four suspects were released without bail Wednesday afternoon after being accused of hiding a human corpse and tampering with evidence
Steven Brown, 44, Jeffrey Mackey, 38, Amanda Wallace, 40, and Alexis Nieves, 33, were all arrested after arms and heads were found in Babylon Park on Tuesday.
The four were each charged with first-degree obstruction of prosecution, tampering with evidence by concealing or destroying it and concealing a human corpse.
It's unclear whether police believe any of the four were directly involved in the deaths of the victims – an unnamed 53-year-old man and a 59-year-old woman from Yonkers.
Alexis Nieves, 33, leaves court in Suffolk County, Long Island, on Wednesday
Jeffrey Mackey, 38, was one of two men charged. The motive and his involvement in the gruesome murder remain unknown
Steven Brown, 44, leaves court in Suffolk County on Wednesday
Amanda Wallace, 40, covers her face as she leaves court on Wednesday
Police sources told NBC New York that the brutal murders may be related to a love triangle, but no further details were revealed.
visited Brown, Mackey and Wallace's shared home in Amityville on Wednesday morning.
On a table in the unkempt property were half-eaten food, an empty Titos vodka bottle and an open carton of Minute Maid strawberry and pear juice.
There was a raid on Monday where the food had not yet been eaten, suggesting that residents had been caught by surprise.
The front door was also broken.
Nieves, who has no fixed address, is believed to have been homeless.
A neighbor who lives near the property searched said Wallace was a dog walker and the house had visitors throughout the night.
Three of the four suspects left court together on Wednesday
A half-finished meal, an empty vodka bottle and an open carton of juice lie on a table in an Amityville, New York, home that was searched Monday in connection with the discovery of two dismembered bodies
The home pictured Wednesday was home to three of the four arrested – Steven Brown, Amanda Wallace and Jeffrey Mackey. The fourth person arrested – Amanda Nieves – was believed to be homeless
A broken door was visible at the Amityville property searched by police on Monday
The neighbor, who gave his name as Josh, said: “The only reason I knew her name is because yesterday someone came and said, 'Do you know Amanda?' She walked my dogs for me.”
Josh said he had previously seen Amanda walking her child to school.
Asked about any worrying activity at the property before the raid, Josh said: “It's hard to say.”
“The only thing I've noticed, since I live just a few doors down, is that it's busy all night long. The whole time. Just people who drove up and stayed there briefly.
Josh added: “I have trouble sleeping in the mornings, so I know there's a car outside the house at 4am.”
“It's terrible. You know that things are going on in the world, but you don't think that things are going on in your own street.
“It’s all shocking, it’s terrible.”
“I don’t think I’m naive, but who would have expected something so terrible.”