Chunks of alleged Gilgo Beach murderer Rex Heuermann’s bathroom were ripped out as part of cops’ nearly two-week search of his Long Island home, his estranged wife revealed Monday.
Photos exclusively obtained by The Post show a piece of the bathtub cut out, as well as most of the tiled floor missing, in Heuermann’s dilapidated Massapequa Park ranch home.
Heuermann’s wife, Asa Ellerup, 59, returned to the family’s home with her children last week after cops wrapped up their search into the grisly 13-year-old slayings — and said that her bathroom is now “in parts” and the rest of the house was left in shambles.
“I can’t use my bathroom sink,” she said. “They cut up the bathtub because it’s vinyl, or whatever plastic that they got. And I got a toilet that I can flush but the floor is ripped up.”
Ellerup and her two children, Christopher Sheridan, 33, who has special needs, and Victoria Heuermann, 26, were kicked out of their house after the accused killer was busted on July 13.
Rex Heuermann, 59, an architect with an office in Manhattan, was charged with three counts of murder in the deaths of Amber Lynn Costello, 27, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, and Megan Waterman, 22.
He is the “prime suspect” in the death of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25. The remains of the so-called “Gilgo Four” were found along Gilgo Beach in December 2010.
Cops launched a thorough search of the Heuermann home after the arrest, combing through the house and backyard until packing up and allowing the family to move back in last week.
Officials said the search had to be thorough because the case sat dormant for so long. They also searched an Amityville storage unit belonging to Heuermann.
Authorities have not said what they’ve found.
“You’re looking for biological evidence,” Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney told The Post Monday. “You’re looking for blood, DNA, fibers, hair. So, it’s an inch-by-inch, painstaking search. Literally.
“We’ll start the discovery procedure, which is going to be very extensive in this case, given the 13 years of investigation that preceded the arrest.”
Heuermann is expected in court Tuesday.