When the dust settled, all that remained of the Telemon Place trailer where Allan Schoenborn killed his three children in 2008 was a pile of rubble.

An Arnica Contracting excavator pulled down the trailer on Tuesday, nearly seven years to the day after the murders.

The mobile home sat vacant and fell into disrepair in the years after the murders.

It was also significantly damaged during the course of police investigation.

In January, Merritt’s city council gave the owner of the trailer, who lives in the Lower Mainland, until March 15 to arrange to have the dilapidated trailer demolished and the property it sat on restored, or the city would start the process itself and send him the bill.

On March 26, Arnica Contracting took out a building permit — which also covers demolition work in city limits — on behalf of the property owner with the City of Merritt.

The demolition took approximately two hours.

By Wednesday morning, most of the debris had been trucked away.

The tear-down scene elicited thumbs up from at least two passing motorists.

Neighbours and passersby said removal of the trailer comes as a relief and the beginning of some closure.

Schoenborn was found not criminally responsible by way of a mental disorder for the murders of Kaitlynne, 10, Max, eight, and Cordon, five, in 2010. He remains at a Coquitlam psychiatric facility.

Schoenborn will be back before the B.C. Review Board on April 29 for the third day of a hearing which will determine if he will be given escorted day passes in the Coquitlam area.