Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann’s $800k property portfolio in Las Vegas, South Carolina and Long Island
- Heuermann, 59, purchased the property in Nevada in 2005 with his wife
- Club de Soleil declined to comment when contacted by DailyMail.com
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Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann owns a property portfolio across several states worth around $800,000 – including the small but expensive house in Long Island that police continue to raid.
The alleged murderer, 59, is accused of slaughtering four sex workers in 2009 and 2010 before taunting one of their families using a burner phone.
Heuermann, an architect, was arrested on Thursday night outside his office in midtown Manhattan.
DailyMail.com can confirm married Heuermann purchased his share of the two-bedroom and two-bathroom condo in Nevada for $16,955 in 2005 with his wife, Asa Ellerup, four years before any of the murders took place.
Heuermann owns a $17,000 time share in this complex in Las Vegas, which he bought in 2005
He also owns a $154,000 plot of land in Chester, South Carolina, where he planned to retire near his brother, Craig.
It’s unclear if it is the town where police found the Chevrolet Avalanche that was seized in South Carolina as part of the murder probe.
Neighbors there told Fox News that Heuermann’s brother, Craig, often spoke about him and his plans to buy more property in the area.
‘He 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,’ the neighbor said.
His plan was to ‘buy everything up’, the neighbor added. Chester is small rural city, around 50 miles southwest of Charlotte.
The Club de Soleil time share is near the Vegas strip. Heuermann and his wife bought their share in 2005, before any of the murders took place
An example of one of the apartments in the Club de Soleil complex in Nevada
The Vegas apartment is in a lavish complex which boasts a resort-style pool, spa, tennis court, putting green, and exercise facility.
Police have yet to confirm if they are looking into any other areas to see if Heuermann could have committed further offenses across the US.
But court documents say that the three murders he is accused of took place while his wife was away from their home in New York, visiting family members in Iceland.
It is not clear the last time that Heuermann or his wife stayed at the resort, which also offers a shuttle service to the strip and back.
Club de Soleil could not confirm if Heuermann and his wife still owned a timeshare in the resort but confirmed that their names were in the system.
They declined to comment further when contacted by DailyMail.com, and advised any further queries be addressed to the police.
Other details about the alleged killer’s finances show that he owed thousands in taxes to the IRS.
Nassau County records show Heuermann once owed $425,000 in taxes, dating as far back as 2005, with around half repaid or no longer owed.
In 2021, Heuermann bought a $154,000 plot of land in Chester, South Carolina, near his brother, Craig
The lot of land, in yellow, is adjacent to where Rex’s brother Craig lives
Heuermann and his wife also owe $81,500 in personal income tax to the state, according to documents.
The architect also filed several lawsuits in New York where he accused drivers of injuring him in collisions.
Three of those cases have been settled or discontinued, and one is still pending according to court documents.
Heuermann, a father-of-two, who ran RH Consultants & Associates, has denied killing Gilgo Beach victims Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello.
Police say that they expect to charge him with the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes and have not ruled out that he could be responsible for further offenses.
Authorities had been tracking the alleged killer for at least a year before swooping outside of his offices in Midtown Manhattan – ending their investigation early over fears he would strike again.
They arrested him with a burner phone on his person, with court documents revealing that he used a phone for each of his victims.
Heuermann’s $650,000 home in Massapequa Park, which police continue to search
He also leased a space in this expensive Fifth Avenue office building in midtown Manhattan
Suffolk County DA Ray Tierney said on Friday that Heuermann continued to patronize sex workers ‘at all hours of the night’ and was using burner phones to conceal his identity.
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Police are now scouring two storage units in Amityville, next to Massapequa Park, where Heuermann has lived his whole life.
His home, which he has lived in since the 1980s, is also being picked apart by forensic teams who have been painstakingly taking items from the property since Friday.
He was tracked down after a taskforce was set up in 2022, with court documents revealing that he searched for updates on the case more than 200 times in a 14-month period.
A witness saw a first-generation Chevy Avalanche parked in the driveway of Amber Costello, around the time she vanished.
Heuermann also physically matched the description that witness gave to a man Amber had been seen with.
Officers were able to track down the owner of the rare vehicle, which led them to Heuerman and the breakthrough in the case.
FBI investigators had tracked down two areas of interest during their initial probe in 2012, identifying where phone calls made to the family of Melissa Barthelemy had originated from.
In January 2023, hair found on a piece of burlap used to wrap one of the Gilgo Beach victims was matched with DNA found on a pizza box in Heuermann’s trash.
The Gilgo Beach investigation began in 2010 after sex worker Shannan Gilbert disappeared and a search for her body uncovered the remains of several other women.
Authorities made a number of shocking discoveries when the remains of eight women, a man and a child were found near the Gilgo Beach area between December 2010 and April 2011.
Heuermann, 59, was dramatically arrested Thursday night in midtown Manhattan outside his architectural office on Fifth Avenue
The Chevrolet Avalanche that led police to Heuermann was pictured outside his home on Bing and Google Earth images. A similar car had been described by witnesses to Amber Costello’s disappearance
Heuermann’s home in Massapequa Park. The property was raided on Friday and over the weekend
The storage units are just 2.3 miles from Heuermann’s home and are also near where the bodies were found on Gilgo Beach
The army of forensic investigators will continue to comb through Heuermann’s home in hopes of finding further evidence in the serial murder case that stumped them for over a decade.
Some of the remains found also matched with partial remains found decades earlier, as far back as 1996.
But in 2012, the case slowed as medical examiners ruled Shannan Gilbert had drowned accidentally during a drug-induced panic.
Her family brought a lawsuit against the investigating police department, sure of her murder. An independent autopsy organized by the family also contradicted the earlier findings.
Four years later, in 2016, Suffolk Police Chief of Department James Burke was imprisoned, found to have assaulted a suspect who had stolen his duffle bag reportedly containing sex toys and porn tapes in 2012.
His boss, District Attorney Thomas Spota, was also imprisoned for obstructing justice in relation to the scandal.
In a twist that year, an attorney for victim Shannan Gilbert’s family said Burke should be investigated, bringing forward a sex worker who claimed she had had an aggressive encounter with him in 2011.
Suffolk’s Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison has dismissed speculation linking him to the case.
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