Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann had “an arsenal” of over 200 guns stashed at his Long Island home — more than twice as many as first believed.
Cops had said Heuermann, 59, an architect and married father of two, had 92 gun permits. But police have since found more than twice that number of firearms at his family’s Massapequa Park home, authorities said Monday.
“He had an arsenal in a vault that he had downstairs,” Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison told Fox News. “It’s concerning, regarding the guns being registered or legal or not. That’s something we’re still taking a look at.
“Anytime somebody has that type of arsenal, we have some concerns,” Harrison added.
Police have been combing through the home since Heuermann’s arrest Thursday in the deaths of three women whose bodies were among 11 found in Gilgo Beach over the past decade or so. He is the prime suspect in the death of a fourth Gilgo Beach victim, too, cops have said.
As part of the case, investigators also have targeted a storage unit he maintained in Amityville.
They said Monday that they’re focused on finding body parts or “trophies” from the crimes as they continue to scour for evidence.
Cops hauled out a bin filled with rifles from Heuermann’s house over the weekend.
The hulking accused killer is charged with murder in the 2010 slayings of Melissa Barthelemy, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, and Amber Lynn Costello, 27, whose remains were found in a marshy stretch along the South Shore not far from Heuermann’s home. Authorities said he is the prime suspect in the death of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, also.
Harrison, a former NYPD chief, reopened the case when he took over as Suffolk’s top cop at the start of last year.
“We found that he was an architect and some other things, and we were able to do some phone records and some other background checks and how he uses his credit cars and look at his family,” the police chief said of Heuermann.
“He has a wife and two kids and just his lifestyle, and we started getting closer and closer and saying, ‘Hey, this may be our person,’ ” Harrison said.
Police ultimately linked Heuermann to the crimes through tips from witnesses — including the pimp of one of the victims — and DNA pulled from discarded pizza crust that tied him to the crime scene.