Detectives spread out over South Bay looking for persons of interests in Gilroy homicide

It’s been a day since the investigation began into Gilroy’s first homicide of the year.

Already detectives believe they have two persons of interest but no clear suspects as to who killed a man inside his home sometime before Monday morning.

Detectives say they are working around the clock not just in Gilroy but in all of the south bay cities, including San Jose where the woman were believed to be using the victim’s credit card.

The community remains quiet, mourning the loss of a neighbor, “All I know is that I lost a friend,” that’s a neighbor who asked not to be identified because he wanted the focus to be on 56-year-old Bob Heiser.

“The Bob I know is a really good guy.”

Described as a family man, very kind and gentle but neighbors and friends, detectives are trying to figure out what Heiser was doing and where he may have been in the days leading up to his death.

Police want to find the two women pictures in an east San Jose store surveillance video, “maybe there was an explanation, but we won’t know until we speak with them,” says Sgt. Pedro Espinoza.

Police won’t say the cause of death at this point, but do say he died in a suspicious way which led them to believe there was foul play involved, “There was trauma to the upper body.”

Gilroy had three homicides in 2014.

Meanwhile, neighbors are pleading for anyone to come forward with information on these women or anything else they may know about what happened to their friend, “He was friendly, he was kind, he was always willing to help. That’s who I’ll remember, that’s who I am going to miss.”