First-time homebuyers and true crime aficionados alike will soon be able to own a morbid piece of history on Long Island.
The long-time home of Rex Heuermann, the alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer, is expected to come up for sale in six months, the New York Times reported. The timing is linked to the finalization of Heuremann’s divorce from Asa Ellerup, who is moving with their two adult children to South Carolina.
The dilapidated red ranch house in Massapequa Park draws gawkers on a regular basis ever since Heuermann was arrested last year in connection with the gruesome killings of women on Long Island between 1996 and 2011. The architect and expeditor has pleaded not guilty to his charges and is being held in jail without bail.
The 61-year-old Heurermann has lived at the home on First Avenue for his entire life, roughly half of that time with his wife and children, who are not suspects in the Gilgo Beach murders. Heuermann allegedly kept an arsenal and a manual of methods on how to hunt and kill women in his basement.
Investigators have torn up much of the home while searching for evidence.
Despite the home’s connection to horrors, there’s a future for the property as long as the buyer can ignore its past. Peter Hirschhorn, an agent with Coldwell Banker American Homes who represented buyers of another notorious Long Island house, said it “could be a nice starter home.” Another agent suggested a builder could try to snap up the property for around $600,000, replace it, then sell it in the low seven-figure range.
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Several neighbors are pitching the village on buying the home so that nobody else can live there indefinitely.
There are all sorts of tactics sellers and agents resort to when selling a home attached to notoriety. In Colorado, for instance, a home where a Colorado man killed his pregnant wife and smothered his two toddler daughters to death quietly went on the market, but was listed at a false address to fend off lookyloos.