the killer is still free :helpme what if he comes back to travel down memory lane and finds you there and he eats people dinner is served.

To live in it? No way...

To rent? If the house has no sues, debts or anything yes.

That depends. Does it have a hot tub and jacuzzi?

i'd get prepared and kill him first :1orglaugh
why not think of it as an interesting and dangerous experience :1orglaugh

When growing up, a neighbour axed his wife to death in their house a few numbers down from my parents house. He went to jail and they has tremendous problems selling the house, no locals wanted it. After being empty for 4-5 years it was practically given away for free to a couple from out of town.

Most of us live in a city with murderers... So to me if I'd like the house and price was good, Why not.

Doubt you would need to disclose a basic death, probably more suspicious deaths...

The house I grew up in was built in the late 1800s, it's never occurred to me until now that someone may have actually DIED [peacefully] in the room I slept in each night! :Oh crap LOL

From the time I was about 9 until I was 13 we lived in an old farmhouse that was build int 1890. It was a very cool house, but I never really thought of what all must have gone on inside that house during all the time it stood.

As long as they cleaned up and changed the carpets I don't think it's a big deal

I remember that! So fucked up he did it over an Xbox.. :disgust


To Kane, I actually looked at a murder house with some friends, so maybe some of these deets might be interesting-

I was helping some friends of mine do a little house hunting last year, one house in our area was being offered at an amazing deal. I sent the listing to my friends who called and set an appointment to look at it. They told me the address the next day and it sounded familliar so I googled it-

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publics...icle439792.ece

Not only did this guy kill his two children in the house, but a freind of ours actually knew the family before all this went down. Their children had been playmates.

We went to look at the house anyway and it was really eerie. It has been almost 2 years since the murders and for the most part the house was untouched. The killer's mother had inherited the property and naturally had issues going inside it. The furniture and most of the personal belongings had been moved, but the house hadn't been professionally cleaned- there was no blood that I could see but there was still fingerprint dust on the walls in the room where the children were killed, and most disturbing in my opinion- there were still personal belongings (photos, notes, kids drawings) and magnets on the fridge. :Oh crap

In Florida it is not manditory to disclose the history of the home. The real estate agent we went with was my friend's agent and not the listing agent, and he had no idea (or so he claimed). He said the only instruction the listing agent gave him was if the mother was there not to bother her with any questions about the home. He may have been truthful since when I showed him a few articles I had printed up about the murders he seemed to get the heebie jeebies worse than us. He also asked me if he could take the print outs home.

Sorry it;s not a more grandious story. Nothing gruesome. My friends decided to pass on the house- even though it was a great deal they had concerns about flipping it (it did eventually sell but for only at just over half of tax appraised value), and our friend who had been friends with them had also said she would never step foot in it. The house itself didn't feel creepy, even the actual murder room, the only thing that really bothered me was seeing the stuff on the fridge- kind of a mix of discomfort and remorse.

yes, and i would listen to Slayer, especially at 3:15 a.m.

Damn shelly, that story is fucked up :(

How do you know someone wasn't at some point murdered in the same place you live now? Even if you bought the land and constructed the house, who knows what history that piece of land has.

That is very creepy. It would be bad enough knowing that something terrible like that had happened in the house, it would be ten times worse seeing all the victims belongings still there and the fingerprint dust.

For sure. Just think about hotel rooms. Some of the crazy shit that has gone on in those rooms that you don't know about.

I watched a documentary a while back that followed these people that work for the government and they deal with dead people who have no obvious relatives or next of kin. One of the cases in the movie was a guy who checked into a hotel then killed himself in the shower. He had ID on him, but no information about other family members. He was unemployed and his most recent past employer had no family contact numbers for him. So the movie followed what happens to the guy, his belongings and any money he has as they try to find any relatives to give it to. They actually keep the bodies frozen for as many as a handful of months in case the families want to bury them. They never found anything about this guy and eventually he was cremated and put in a mass grave with all the other either unidentified people or people with no families that died that year. All of his belongings were sold and the money was put into a trust that the city would hold for, I think, five years (but it may have been 10) in case a family member stepped forward to claim it. If they never did the city got the money.

So you know a few weeks later someone checked into that room no knowing that the last guy who stayed there had killed himself.

I don't mind the ghosts...

Totally. It was very surreal. The house at the time was priced $50k below market value, that was a big motivator for my friends, I couldn't blame them for wanting to check it out. I looked up the property record and it looks like someone picked it up as an investment property either to flip or to rent out. I wonder if they know?


I know crime scene techs aren't cleaning people, but the dust :( I guess that's what crime scene cleaners are for. Honestly I'm surprised the mother didn't hire a crime scene clean up crew. Personally I think they would have been best off gutting the place and throwing up a new coat of paint all around.

No, hell no, NEVER! lol

Something else kind of in the same vein, I can't remember if I posted about it here or not, but I live on a lake & last 4th of July one of my neighbors 2 houses down was having their daughter house sit for them and she went out on the dock while the fireworks were going off and blew her brains out.

It's hard to believe it's coming up on a year since that went down, but I'm really surprised the parents still live there. At a minimum if it were me I would want the dock torn out.

I don't really know the history, we don't socialize with that fam as they have expressed long ago they have no interest in meeting us due to politics. The other neighbors filled me in that it was a premeditated act with at least part of the motivation being to spite her parents. She left a two page note, locked her husband out of the house. I'm guessing she picked he 4th because no one heard the gunshot. Very sad, very eerie stuff.

No cause the killer might come back!!