By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2024-11-24 04:52:33 | Updated at 2024-11-24 07:34:50
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It’s a killer deal.
A home buyer who has $700,000 and doesn’t mind eating breakfast near where cops frantically searched for the bodies of murdered prostitutes could soon see the real estate deal of a lifetime.
Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann’s estranged wife plans to sell the family’s Long Island home and move far away from the site where her husband allegedly planned his ghastly murders, the New York Times reported.
The home has become a dark tourist fascination, attracting scores of morbid onlookers, Heuermann’s soon-to-be-ex wife Asa Ellerup’s lawyer Robert Macedonio said.
“People constantly stop in front of the house, to gawk and point and take pictures, she’s lost any emotional attachment she had to the premises.”
The single-family home’s gruesome history will make it difficult to sell, and it will likely go for under market value or be purchased by a builder who will tear it down, experts claimed.
“I don’t think a regular consumer would buy that home,” he said. “I’d say nine out of 10 consumers would be turned off by it,” real estate agent Louis Scrimenti said.
The 1,323 square foot home, which boasts of six rooms, one bath and a fireplace is worth $697,200 according to Zillow.
The property was left in shambles during a 12 day police raid on the property in July 2023, in which cops tore apart the residence — removing chunks of the bathroom and tearing apart furniture — and dug up the backyard looking for DNA evidence and more bodies.
Authorities claim to have found a vile “planning document” on Heuermann’s computer that laid out the steps of how he allegedly commit the ghastly murders. Ellerup, 61, lacks the funds to repair the residence, Macedonio said.
Heuermann’s adult children Victoria, 28, and Christopher Sheridan, 35, who has special needs, can’t even step outside without being harassed, according to their lawyer Vess Mitev.
“Chris can’t even walk his dog down the block. He gets photographed, people stop and take pictures, he’s catcalled, the whole thing. They can’t even check the mail.”
The kids are eager to escape the “dark cloud that hangs over their heads” and begin “the next chapter of their lives” by moving out of the home, Mitev says.
“The best thing that could happen is they knock that house down and build a brand-new one so that the memory of all this is obliterated,” a neighbor, Albert Cella, 80, said.
Heuermann, 60, is charged with murdering six sex workers over three decades and dumping many of their remains on a Long Island beach. The disgraced former Manhattan architect is being held in Suffolk County jail in Riverhead without bail.
