Scores of guns confiscated from Long Island home of suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer — who had 92 legal permits
Cops on Sunday carted off a bin of rifles from the Long Island home of suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann, who had legal permits for 92 guns.
A state police investigator hauled the blue plastic tub of weapons from Heuermann’s Massapequa Park home as authorities continue to scour for evidence after his arrest Thursday in the 12-year-old slayings of three women.
“He has a very large safe in which guns are kept,” Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said Friday. “We’re continuing to execute search warrants.”
Most of Heuermann’s weapons were rifles, a law-enforcement source said.
The suspect, 59, a married father and architect with Midtown offices, has been charged in the slayings of Malissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, and Amber Costello, 27.
He also is the prime suspect in the death of 25-year-old Maureen Brainard-Barnes, whose remains were found among a total of nearly a dozen bodies discovered in marshes near Heuermann’s home.
State police on Sunday remove a bin of rifles from the Massapequa Park home of accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann. Edmund J Coppa
Heuermann, 59, an architect and married father of two from Massapequa Park, was charged with three murders last week and is the prime suspect in a fourth killing. Suffolk County Sheriff/MEGA
Investigators tied the hulking architect to some of the grisly murders partly through DNA pulled from discarded pizza crust.
Heuermann lived with his wife and two children, a special-needs son and a 26-year-old daughter, Victoria, who worked as a receptionist at RH Consultants and Associates, Heuermann’s Manhattan architecture firm.
The suspect grew up in the same modest home, which he bought from his mother in 1994.
Over the past decade or so, police have found 11 bodies dumped in Gilgo Beach on Long Island. Getty Images
In addition to the weapons, police have already removed a number of other items from the family’s home, including a child-sized blond doll wearing a red dress and kept inside a large wooden and glass display case.
Cops have also confiscated cat food, a cat scratching pole, a framed picture and a bookcase.
Officers wearing gloves — and at times wearing hazmat suits or head gear — have meticulously placed most of the items in blue bins and loaded them into a waiting truck outside the house.
Additional reporting by Larry Celona and Joe Marino
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Source: New York Post
