Accused serial killer Rex Heuermann has sold the secluded South Carolina property where he planned to one day retire to relatives — for a buck.
A year after transferring the title of his ramshackle Long Island home to his estranged wife Asa Ellerup, he sold his Southern retreat, 1031 Rippling Brooke Dr. in the town of Chester, on July 25 to her.
Ellerup, who filed for divorce not long after Heuermann’s arrest in 2023, then turned around and sold the 5.34-acre plot for the same $1 to Heuermann’s brother Craig on Aug. 30.
The property is about an hour south of Charlotte, N.C.
The accused Gilgo Beach serial killer purchased the rural outpost in 2021 for $154,351.
Chester County sheriffs searched the home and property for evidence last summer after obtaining a warrant. They found a Chevrolet Avalanche which first linked Heuermann to the murders.
Heuermann, 60, planned to live out his post-retirement years in the white, 1,400-square-foot one-story home surrounded by woods.
Craig Heuermann, 58, owns several pieces of property in the same neighborhood.
“[Craig] told me when I first moved down here that his brother owns that lot across the road, and that his brother’s going to retire down here, and when he does, everybody’s leaving,” a neighbor previously told The Post.
The neighbor said the architect planned on buying “everybody out” in the neighborhood soon after retiring to Chester.
The younger Heuermann brother was “coked up” when he killed a New York police captain in a drunken crash along Long Island’s Southern State Parkway in 1988, The Post previously reported. He pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide and driving while intoxicated, and was sentenced to three years in prison. He was paroled in time for his brother’s 1990 wedding.
Real estate attorney Sergey Mekhtiyev said Heuermann may have parted with the South Carolina land as part of his ongoing divorce.
“Even if he sat on the house, he’s still responsible for the mortgage, which would be nothing he could afford now,” said Mekhtiyev. “He probably gave the house away because the bank would still have foreclosed on the property eventually.”
The property’s mortgage is now his brother’s responsibility. South Carolina property records do not reflect how much remains on a mortgage.
Rex Heuermann is facing murder charges in the deaths of Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Amber Lynn Costello, Jessica Taylor and Sandra Costilla.
He was arrested outside his Midtown office in 2023, was linked to the crimes through DNA evidence plucked from a discarded pizza box and even from his daughter’s energy drink can.
