Maybe the book is waiting in the kitchen as a reward for housework?
I thought they took it the first search, then returned it before the second search.
ottawa.citynews.ca
bbmView attachment 505651Police search Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect's home on Long Island for 5th straight day
MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Investigators in the New York City suburbs continue to scour the home of a Manhattan architect charged in a string of slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings. Friday marked the fifth straight day of the renewed search by state and local police of Rex Heuermann’s...
''Friday marked the fifth straight day of the renewed search by state and local police of Rex Heuermann’s dilapidated, single-family home in Massapequa Park on Long Island.
Police in the early afternoon were seen removing a large rectangular object covered in a blue cloth and loading it into the back of a truck, which was parked in the driveway as it was loaded with evidence pulled from the home.
Other officers emerging from the mobile command units that Suffolk County police set up on the closed-off street also carried cardboard boxes of evidence back into the home but it wasn’t clear their contents.
Vess Mitev, a lawyer representing Heuermann’s two adult children, said the family hasn’t been told when they’ll be able to move back in.''
Iceland would seem attractive at this point in time.
was going over there and I had no idea...or worse had thought something was off but second guessed myself. 
Just wondering if Bitterolf was working on house as he is was a carpenter and if paint chips can also be a link to him?
Possibly. If so, it was taken, then later returned to the house.
I wonder... are there any cold missing person cases of tradespeople? Different MO but if he hired people under the table to construct, say, an underground lair, he might want to keep that information buried...
Also was reading about the burner phone and account linked to it. Can they see what time it was created it could show accomplices
It’d be hard to sell for sure.
You'd have to have a certain personality to want to peruse a book like that IMO. Crime scene deaths of naked women? Butchery and brutality. Disease and mental illness, suicide, murder. It's morbid and disturbing for your average person to see, let alone for tender eyes picking it up while it sits out on a table. Why it would be laying out for anybody to view, particularly knowing what RH has been charged with, is beyond comprehension.
Nobody will want it for the house but I think the property would be easy to sell and likely worth a fortune in today's market. Can the city confiscate it if he's found guilty? How does that work? I feel sorry for the neighbors with that home looming over their heads like a dark cloud, and having to deal with all the police presence is upsetting in communities. MOO.
Agreed. Have been mulling over the paint chips and rope. Did something perhaps seep down from the very far edge of the attic? Maybe created stain/discoloration where it had to be painted over? Or as you note, was something suspended there? There was mention of searching of the attic, I went back into old sources and looked into current sources for it, too. There's an attic of some kind and it was mentioned as an area involved in the searches.
I’m pretty sure it’s wood burning— look to the immediate left of the poinsettia on the left and there’s a metal firewood holder. I swear this photo is like one of those Hidden Picture puzzles from “Highlights for children”!
Just in case anyone's interested, photo from RH's home at the holidays. Fireplace all right. Lots of ornamental collector plates on the walls. That standing doll at the fireplace (please, don't get me started on those ghastly dolls at the victims' memorials. I still can't believe someone put those out there, and I sure hope this isn't some "holiday" version of one). Is that a piano on the far left, like a mid-century piano? I just can't tell what that is, but I thought for a few seconds that might be what it was. Kind of interesting, never saw this pic before. I don't have a fireplace. Is there any way to tell from this image if that's gas or wood-burning? With his spending patterns, I'd fear wood-burning.
