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The Surf City Borough Council unanimously agreed to sell a small parcel of land located at the end of North Seventh Street and the bay, cleaning up the angle of the property.

We had it appraised and came up with a value $60,000, Mayor Francis Hodgson said during the councils April 12 meeting. They are going to bulkhead it. The stipulation is they cannot put any building of any kind out past the bulkhead.

When asked by a member of the public about the property location, who was purchasing it and why, Hodgson only said a crime had been committed in the vicinity.

The just-sold land parcel in question is adjacent to the bayfront property where Sherry Lee Heffernan, 57, of Landenberg, Pa., is alleged to have killed her father and his longtime companion in September 2021. She was indicted by an Ocean County grand jury after the case was investigated by the Ocean County Prosecutors Office Major Crime Unit, Surf City Police Department and the Ocean County Sheriffs Office Crime Scene Investigation Unit.

Surf City police discovered the bodies of John Enders and his girlfriend, Franoise Pitoy, in Surf City on Sept. 29, 2021 after being dispatched to the bayfront home when a family member requested a welfare check on the longtime couple. Enders was 87 at the time of his death and Pitoy was 75. Both victims were already deceased when the officers arrived, having suffered multiple and obvious stab wounds.

Heffernan was taken into custody on Oct. 4, 2021 by Pennsylvania State Police at her residence in Landenberg and returned to New Jersey on Oct. 20, 2021. Shes been lodged in Ocean County Jail since that date.

Heffernan was also indicted on charges of possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, specifically a handgun; unlawful possession of that handgun; possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, specifically a knife; and unlawful possession of a weapon, the knife.

Before returning to New Jersey, Heffernan claimed she was being framed for the deaths. However, at approximately 4:48 a.m., Sept. 29, surveillance footage of the Causeway Bridge captured a white RV heading eastbound toward the Island. About 10 minutes later, a Ring doorbell camera captured the same RV approaching the victims home on North Seventh Street, according to an October 2021 affidavit.

At about 5:53 a.m., an individual is captured by a security camera walking west toward the bay.

A different camera shows an individual in the back yard of the Enders home at 6:42 a.m. climb over the fence into a neighboring yard, according to the affidavit. The individuals clothing appears to be oversized for the persons frame and the individual is seen carrying an orange garment or bag while cutting through a property toward Sixth Street. The individual was determined to be about 5 feet, 8 inches tall, the same height listed on Heffernans drivers license, according to the affidavit.

At 6:43 a.m., the individual is seen walking eastbound on Sixth Street by an Xfinity security camera. Ten minutes later, the RV was captured leaving the Island and about 30 minutes later, an automatic license plate reader on Route 72 near the entrance to the Garden State Parkway captured the RVs registration number, according to the affidavit. G.G.S.

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Surf City OKs Sale of Bayfront Parcel Adjacent to Crime Scene - The SandPaper