OK what would you do if the house you live in had been the scene of a grusome murder?

[marvin]

Following on from the story of the couple who sued because the previous owners of the house they bought had not told them that the house had been the scene of a murder, the parts of the victims body being hidden around the house, some never having been found.

What would your reaction be?

 

[Easy 10]

Just saw that on the news. Interesting talking point isn't it ?
After some consideration, I don't think I'd let it bother me. If something horrendous like a child murder had happened in my house before I lived here, its all in the past isn't it.

Not a nice thought, but there's no way I'd move out.

 

[Bobby's Gull]

RUN A MILE!

 

[bhaexpress]

Clean up ?

 

[Sea]

id move out! i couldnt live in a place where i knew someone had been murdered, especially if their body had been scattered around the house!

 

[US Seagull]

Charge admission?
Roll up, roll up, come see the scene of a grisly murder.

 

[marvin]

My reaction was I'd go round sniffing the walls (apparently this makes me a ghoul, the second time I have been accused of that this week. The first because someone got run over and killed by a bus directly outside the building I was in on Monday. All the staff and others were persistently peering out the windows trying to work out if it was a one under or a metal on metal crash, and I had a meeting to get on with. So I went outside looked under the bus and came back in to confirm for them that it was indeed a one under, it was an elderly Asian lady and she was trapped under the bus. I did not go on and describe the damage inflicted and that from what i saw she was decidedly dead already, but I did manage to get on with the meeting.)

There is a two floor maisonette house just a couple of 100 yds from where I sit where a double murder was committed. (A mother and her 8/9 year old daughter, apparently boyfriend was messing with daughter, mum walks in boyfriend murders mum then set about killing the only witness. She was in the same year in school as my son, but a different class) The council cannot let this house for more than a couple of months at a time as, as soon the new tenants find out about the murders they want out of the property.

 

[Yorkie]

I would want to move

 

[Spicy]

An interesting question. An older friend of mine once had to do a survey of 10 Rillington Place, London, where John Christie carried out the killing of 8 women, including his wife. This was in the 70s and he said there was a really nasty air about the place. Unsure I would want to live in a house like that.

 

[Safeway]

I'd go in search of the missing bones and then make a nice SOUP with them.

 

[marvin]

An interesting question. An older friend of mine once had to do a survey of 10 Rillington Place, London, where John Christie carried out the killing of 8 women, including his wife. This was in the 70s and he said there was a really nasty air about the place. Unsure I would want to live in a house like that.

But the couple involved in this case did not know anything until they were sat in the house watching a CH 5 programme about the murder and then realised that the house on the telly was the one they were in.

Until they had been presented with this knowledge they were quite happy with the house.

I understand (although I could be wrong) that 10 Rillington Place had not had anyone living in it much since the murders which in itself will create an unsavoury atmosphere.

 

[Yorkie]

The house where Fred and Rosemary West lived was demolished after all the forensic evidence had been collected.

 

[marvin]

The house where Fred and Rosemary West lived was demolished after all the forensic evidence had been collected.

yes and the caretakers house and the hanger at Sohem are, and the gym/school hall in Dunblane but only a few high profile cases get this. Apparently to stop to many tourists coming to see the place, or for anyone buying it to make money out of it etc. In some cases its to spare any further distress to vivtims family's.

 

[Hunting 784561]

I think if you wanted a good nights sleep in any of those places, youd get in a priest, a large cucifix and some holy water...

 

[marvin]

I think if you wanted a good nights sleep in any of those places, youd get in a priest, a large cucifix and some holy water...

Why? what is a bloke in a frock, and some tap water going to do?

Does not change the history of a place and it is only when people are told (if they did not know in the first place, and if they did I doubt they would move in) by the neighbours (Its the same with the house over the road from me) that they start to worry about the place and want to be out of it.

Yet, its not the same with a house where someone commits suicide.

The house 2 doors down from me has had it all except murder, someone hanged them self a youngster was raped in it (about 14 at the time) and people have no problem living in it. (They do know the history as they were related to the people whom all this happened to).

The bamber case where the son killed all his family, the farm house is still occupied, still occupied by other close relatives, they know exactly what went on they discovered the scene, they have no problem living there.

You can probably tell by now I am curious about the psyche that goes into this.

 

[Safeway]

Being serious for a second I would probably get the willies for a bit cos I'm a f***ing scaredy cat when it comes to ghosts and stuff, but then I'd be alright. I wouldn't move out because of it.

 

[Hunting 784561]

You can probably tell by now I am curious about the psyche that goes into this. [/B]

It was only a crap joke....

There must be some reason the couple were asking for a £ 8 K rebate though. ..??

 

[marvin]

It was only a crap joke....

There must be some reason the couple were asking for a £ 8 K rebate though. ..??

yes you're right it was....

the 8k was the difference between the market value and the actual price they got when they sold the place quickly after they found out.

The case of suing in this case was and is particularly weak as the people who sold it to them did not know about it either and they were suing them for not telling them. Quite how someone who does not know something tells you about it is beyond me.

If the contention is that they should have known then so should the couple who were suing.

The solicitors should have told them piss off you're wasting your money but.....

 

[Hunting 784561]

yes you're right it was....

the 8k was the difference between the market value and the actual price they got when they sold the place quickly after they found out.

The case of suing in this case was and is particularly weak as the people who sold it to them did not know about it either and they were suing them for not telling them. Quite how someone who does not know something tells you about it is beyond me.

If the contention is that they should have known then so should the couple who were suing.

The solicitors should have told them piss off you're wasting your money but.....

So why the difference in price 'after they found out' ...was that the bill for cleaning the blood off the carpets ??

Why does a previous murder reduce the apparent asking price of a house ?

 

[marvin]

So why the difference in price 'after they found out' ...was that the bill for cleaning the blood off the carpets ??

Why does a previous murder reduce the apparent asking price of a house ?

Because when they found out the felt duty bound to tell any purchaser who, for some reason, only held out for 8G.