Park City ? The city will prosecute anyone caught trespassing or taking pieces of the house once owned by BTK serial killer Dennis Rader, the mayor says.

And that could include a person who tried to hawk what were described as pieces of the house on an Internet auction site Friday morning. The auction was taken down later in the day.

“If there is any way to prosecute this person we will,” said Park City Mayor Dee Stuart.

Later, she said she had contacted police about the matter.

“One way or another it’s a crime,” she said. “If it was taken from the house it’s theft. If it was not taken from the house it’s fraud.”

Earlier this month, Park City paid less than $60,000 for the suburban Wichita house where Rader and his family lived for 25 years before he pleaded guilty to killing 10 people between 1974 and 1991. He is serving 10 consecutive life terms in prison. Rader called himself BTK for his preferred method of killing, “bind, torture and kill.”

The city plans to tear down the house soon but will not say when demolition will begin. “This is not meant to be a spectacle,” Stuart said.

EBay posted a notice Friday afternoon saying the auction for the boards had ended with no bids. It was not immediately clear whether eBay or the seller stopped the auction. Starting bid for boards had been 99 cents.

A Park City police officer guards the front door of Dennis Rader's former home in Park City, in this July 11, 2005, file photo. The city will prosecute with

Catherine England, an eBay spokeswoman, said eBay prohibits auctioning so-called “murderabilia” out of respect for the families of murder victims and as part of its policy on offensive material.

The eBay seller, identified as “farm-boy-bbq,” said in the description of the item: “I have some pieces of btk’s house which is being torn down to make a public park, i had to go through a lot to get these, i will mail you a flat rate box stuffed full of these lath boards from his house!!”

The online auction included a picture of a demolished structure, though Rader’s home is still standing.

City officials said some debris from the demolition of the house will be buried at an undisclosed landfill, with some burned at other sites.

The city wants to use the land to create a new entryway to Jardine Memorial Park, a small park with trees, swings, a half basketball court and a parking lot.