The Long Island Home Where 17 Women Were Killed Just Found a New Owner for $670K

A house where some of New York’s most gruesome killings took place just found a new owner. And unlike the two buyers before them, this one did not walk away.

The home at 1492 Garden Street in East Meadow, Long Island, once belonged to serial killer Joel Rifkin. It closed at $670,000. The buyer plans to renovate it, possibly demolish part of the structure, and move forward. No hesitation.

The House in Barnum Woods

Rifkin lived in this East Meadow home with his mother and sister while secretly killing women across New York. Between 1989 and 1993, he admitted to murdering 17 women, most of them sex workers. He told authorities he killed several of them inside this house.

Built in 1951, it sits on a tree-lined corner lot in a quiet residential neighborhood called Barnum Woods. Four bedrooms, two bathrooms, 1,675 square feet. The kind of house families look for on Long Island…