Parents of son who killed neighbor may be on the move

A moving van and furniture stood in front of the Valley Stream home Saturday where a couple continued to live for 20 years after their son killed a teenage neighbor.

Neighbors watched Saturday as movers hauled furniture from the house and loaded it into a truck. John and Elizabeth Golub would not comment to reporters.

For two decades, the pair stayed in the house where their son beat and strangled Kelly Ann Tinyes, 13, then hid her body in the basement.

Even as Robert Golub, now 42, was convicted in 1990 and went off to a 25-years-to-life prison sentence and the family became the block pariahs, the Golubs stayed at 81 Horton Rd. - four doors down from where Tinyes' parents stayed, too.

But at the Golubs' two-story Tudor-style home Saturday, an old refrigerator, a pink couch and other furniture sat in the driveway. Boxes filled two vehicles registered to John Golub. The home is listed on real estate Web sites at $379,000, with one site, Trulia.com, saying the price had dropped by $20,000 in May.

The real estate agent for the home, Raymond M. Sung, hung up on a reporter last night.

During the rocky decades following Tinyes' 1989 slaying, resentment between the families has been in sharp relief: Taunts. Lawsuits. Police complaints.

"It's about time that they move," Tinyes' dad, Richie Tinyes, said Saturday. Still, he said, "There's no closure here."

For years, Tinyes and his allies on the block have contended that other Golub family members were accessories in her death.

A neighbor, Laura DeLuca, 29, recalled Tinyes dancing on her staircase the day before she disappeared. DeLuca, a close friend of the Tinyeses, said the possibility the Golubs are moving is bittersweet because it might mean evidence is being lost that could tie others to the crime. Earlier this year, the Nassau County district attorney's office announced it was reopening the case to see if there were any accomplices.

While the Golubs remained, Tinyes refused to move out of the home where he raised his family.

That might be changing.

"Now, I think it's time for us to start looking to get out," Tinyes said.