In the wake of a pair of deep-dive documentaries into the (alleged) Long Island Serial Killer, many of Rex Heurermann’s prized possessions hit the online marketplace—inspiring a flurry of interest from wild-child and twisted sisters.
Some noteworthy relics include a 1972 Vietnam-era Jeep the Massapequa native once owned. Offers are up to $4,300 for this ride, while his 1977 yearbook at McKenna Junior High School is commanding $995 on eBay.
Currently, Heurermann is charged with slaying seven sex workers who disappeared from 1994 to 2010.
Many of their bodies were discovered buried in burlap along Gilgo Beach in 2010-2011, the result of local police’s search for a disappeared woman last seen in Oakdale—and who was never seen or heard from again, as recapped in the No. 1 Netflix and Peacock docs.
National interest in the case has returned following Heurermann’s wife and daughter's polarizing $1 million participation in the latter film.
Popular culture clearly remains enamored with this macabre story set between the familial innocence of local suburbia and the after-hours underworld sitting dead-smack right beneath it.
Case in point: how quickly Heurermann’s items—for which proceeds will go to the family—are being sold off, and at substantially driven-up prices.
“I’ve been dealing with the ‘murderabilia’ industry for over 20-some odd years and one thing I’ve learned is that when who is attached or charged with serial killings, items will be put up for sale,” Andy Kahan, who runs victims services at Crime Stoppers in Houston, Texas, told News 12 back in 2023.
Though the jeep went up for sale at $1,000, it was still taking bids as recent as July 1st–where the price reached over $5,100. It has 522,465 miles on it, according to its eBay listing, which is no longer accessible as of Thursday—suggesting a purchase is in order.
“Being sold together with the trailer, the Jeep comes with a Hard top and soft top, along with all hard and soft doors,” the ad read. “There are extra parts stored in the trailer in boxes. Jeep runs good and registration is ready to transfer. Don’t be outbid on this one!”
This was not the alleged “murder vehicle” that one witness tied an “ogre-like” John he and his prostitute roommate tried to con a day before she disappeared, recirculating later as one of the Gilgo Four.
The Jeep is not to be confused with the Green Chevrolet Avalanche—a description, coupled with Heurermann’s menacing build, that investigators had a decade and a half prior, but seemingly did not proactively pursue until the DA Ray Tierney Task Force turned this ice-cold case scorching hot.
In 50 Cent’s “The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets,” Heurermann’s wife, Asa, doubles down on believing her husband’s innocence.
Meanwhile, by film’s end, a title card read that daughter, Victoria—who spent a large portion of the doc collaborating on processing such a blow to her family fold with the adult daughter of the BTK Killer—had been swayed to hold that her father most likely committed the gruesome killings.