A basement vault belonging to accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex A. Heuermann was disassembled Thursday as his family prepares to sell the Massapequa Park home where he lived during what prosecutors have alleged was a decades-long killing spree.
The large Pentagon door to the walk-in vault featured Heuermann’s initials "RAH" on it. It was pulled through Bilco doors by a team of five movers and hauled away on a trailer hitched to a Ford Super Duty 350 shortly before noon Thursday.
"They are cleaning up the house," attorney Robert Macedonio said. "They’re disposing whatever items they’re not going to keep and putting other items in storage, prepping the house for eventual sale."
There is no timetable for the house to be placed on the market, Macedonio said. The attorney declined to say where the vault door was being stored or if it had been sold.
The house, which has not yet been listed for sale, has an estimated value of between $677,000 and $733,000, according to the real estate websites Realtor.com and Zillow. It was built in 1956 by Heuermann’s parents and sold to him by his mother, Dorothy, for $170,000 in May 1994, Nassau County property records show.
The vault contained nearly 280 guns, prosecutors have said.
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