Police search returns to Manorville woods

"There's no new information, evidence or tips that triggered the return," a police spokeswoman said. "Investigators felt it would be prudent to go back to do additional searching and waited until a day when there were enough resources."

No new significant evidence was discovered during the search Tuesday, police said. In addition to county police manpower, three cadaver dogs were used the search.

The bones found there in February were discovered by a man walking his dog in part of the Upton Ecological and Research Reserve, a protected pine barrens overseen by Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Four other sets of human remains have been found in the same general area since 2000, including those of two women whose partial remains also were found at Gilgo Beach.

No information was released Tuesday as to whether the police planned to continue searching the area on Wednesday.