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.
Menacing signs grace the gate to what was Rex Heuermann’s property in South Carolina. John Simmons for the NY Post
Craig Heuermann, 58, owns several pieces of property in the same neighborhood.
Heuermann is shown in Suffolk Country District Court on June 6. pool Heuermann’s South Carolina land appears to be covered in trash and junk. John Simmons for the NY Post
“[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.
Craig Heuermann now owns his brother’s property, as well as other pieces of land nearby. Edmund J Coppa
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.
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