A police barricade prohibiting access to traffic in a Warwick neighborhood for the last five days has residents talking, especially since it is in the same area where a local woman's body was found in 1987.

New York State Police are leading an investigation at a property on Little York Road in Warwick's Pine Island section, which also involves Warwick Police and the Orange County District Attorney's Office.

A source told News 12 this weekend that police were executing a search warrant at the property, and that this is not the first time the property has been searched.

Pine Island residents have also been especially curious because county property records show it belonged to the man who is believed to have discovered that woman's body 38 years ago.

Dawn Marino was 20 years old when she was last seen alive outside a local bar in 1981. Six years later, Little York Road residents Michael Moraczewski found Marino's body in a nearby cement water tank, according to past news reports. No one has ever been charged in connection to Marino's death.

State police have not shared exactly why they are searching the property and why the one-mile stretch of Little York Road remains closed to traffic for the fifth straight day.

A source told News 12 a tip led police to search the home.

State police recently started a campaign to drum up tips in the 44-year-old unsolved murder case. The agency has only said there is an ongoing investigation at the scene, and there is no threat to the public.