# I want to live in a murder house. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 21, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-live-in-a-murder-house/291181 "2005-02-21T15:25:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-live-in-a-murder-house/291181/21 "2005-02-22T03:09:24Z")
> [@Jennshark](#): > > My mom and dad live in a former home-for-juvenile-delinquent-girls in the wilds of Idaho near Yellowstone and are slowly remodeling it. Built in 1910 in the Greek revival style, it has four vast floors, sweeping staircase, massive pillars and some really, really creepy leftovers from less-enlightened eras of mental health care (ankle chains in the attic, which was used for isolation punishment.) > > If you’re interested in seeing a photo let me know (and tell me how to attach it.) OoOO, now that does sound interesting…I would love some more info and pictures, I have a thing for older institutional buildings, the architecture is fascinating=) aruvqan at earthlink dot net=) pretty please?=) ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-live-in-a-murder-house/291181/22 "2005-02-22T03:16:05Z")
I’ll find some photos after I eat dinner. Is there a way to just post them on this thread or is via separate email the best way? ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-live-in-a-murder-house/291181/23 "2005-02-22T03:17:08Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > In fact, when my parents decided to remodel their bedroom, the workmen who knocked down a wall found a secret hidey-hole with bottles of Prohibition-era bootleg liquor. It seems that the owner of the house was active in the Temperance movement, but his old man was brewing hooch in the basement and hiding it in these secret spaces. After my parents found the liquor, a neighborhood newspaper did a story on us. [Blutarsky] They took the bar! They took the whole fu\*kin’ bar!! :eek: [/Blutarsky] God, I wouldn’t care how old it was, I would have loved just to try a sip of some of that stuff. . . even if it tasted like paint thinner. 😃 Tripler Whatever happened to the Delta House I used to know? ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-live-in-a-murder-house/291181/24 "2005-02-22T03:20:20Z")
I’m so jealous, **MsRobyn** and **Jennshark**. So jealous that my face is turning green. My parents live in a house only mildly touched by scandal. It was built in the early 1980s by a local insurance agent. The house had a lot of weird features that my parents took out, including 18 karat gold fixtures in the bathrooms. A couple of years after he built the house, he went to prison for stealing insurance premiums from a healthy chunk of the people in town. (Maybe the gold faucets were his way of hiding the loot?) I kept hoping we’d find cash stuffed inside the walls, or even gold doubloons (hey, I was 11 when we moved in), but my parents did major renovations and we never found a stash. Mom sold the gold fixtures, though, and made a nice buck. Back to the subject of my hypothetical axe murder house: there will definitely be a library, by necessity. I have a ton and a half of books. I am also hoping for a conservatory. (Hmm, sounds like what I really want is the Clue house.) ---
**Author:** ![partlycloudy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/partlycloudy/32/3114_2.png) [@partlycloudy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partlycloudy)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-live-in-a-murder-house/291181/25 "2005-02-22T03:46:14Z")
> [@Jennshark](#): > > I’ll find some photos after I eat dinner. Is there a way to just post them on this thread or is via separate email the best way? I’d really like to see pics too, **Jennshark** , if you don’t mind. 🙂 The only way I can think to post pics is to post them on a hosting website (i.e. yahoo pictures) and then “share” them (the only way I know how to do this is send an email to yourself, copy the link location and post the link on here)… I’m not very advanced with the picture-posting thing though, so maybe someone else knows a better way. While I definitely think places like this would be interested to visit, I could never spend a night in a house with a history like that! And a surgical table in the basement?! Yeesh!! ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-live-in-a-murder-house/291181/26 "2005-02-22T04:33:28Z")
I sent the photos to those who requested 'em – one of the emails that starts with “Baranr” bounced back. Can you give me your address again? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-live-in-a-murder-house/291181/27 "2005-02-22T05:21:15Z")
I could sell you my murder house, but I’d have to move. I like it here; it’s a wonderful place. It’s not creepy at all. The fact that a friend chose to murder his wife here is not a problem. I had no idea that its being a murder house would be an asset. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-live-in-a-murder-house/291181/28 "2005-02-22T05:30:10Z")
> [@Jennshark](#): > > I sent the photos to those who requested 'em – one of the emails that starts with “Baranr” bounced back. Can you give me your address again? Hrm, try it again. It should be that first quoted part ‘at’ gimail dot af dot mil. Let me know. . . Tripler Thanks for the photo, though! ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-live-in-a-murder-house/291181/29 "2005-02-22T05:31:28Z")
Oh, and if for some reason _that_ doesn’t work, there’s a link on my webpage . . . ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-live-in-a-murder-house/291181/30 "2005-02-22T05:36:22Z")
[1426 F Street, Sacramento, CA](http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/puente/1.html?sect=25) Great little Victorian house. If it went up for sale, and I could afford it, I’d buy it. It’s not huge and rambling, but likely has a few skeletons lying around in the garden. ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-live-in-a-murder-house/291181/31 "2005-02-22T09:47:29Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > I could sell you my murder house, but I’d have to move. I like it here; it’s a wonderful place. It’s not creepy at all. The fact that a friend chose to murder his wife here is not a problem. I had no idea that its being a murder house would be an asset. Crikey! I don’t think I could live in a house where my friend was murdered. That would just be too painful for me. Darn, **Jennshark** , I thought you would link to the pics from this thread. Could you send them to me, too? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-live-in-a-murder-house/291181/32 "2005-02-22T15:54:58Z")
> [@Q.N. Jones](#): > > Crikey! I don’t think I could live in a house where my friend was murdered. Well, his wife wasn’t my friend. Before they got married, I told him she was trouble. After the first divorce, I told him he was a fool to want to remarry her. After they filed for the second divorce, I prayed for him to find a solution to his problems. That night, he killed her. Did you ever have one of those moments when you sorely hated to be right? ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-live-in-a-murder-house/291181/33 "2005-02-28T23:33:38Z")
> [@Q.N. Jones](#): > > I’m so jealous, **MsRobyn** and **Jennshark**. So jealous that my face is turning green. > > My parents live in a house only mildly touched by scandal. It was built in the early 1980s by a local insurance agent. The house had a lot of weird features that my parents took out, including 18 karat gold fixtures in the bathrooms. > > A couple of years after he built the house, he went to prison for stealing insurance premiums from a healthy chunk of the people in town. (Maybe the gold faucets were his way of hiding the loot?) I kept hoping we’d find cash stuffed inside the walls, or even gold doubloons (hey, I was 11 when we moved in), but my parents did major renovations and we never found a stash. Mom sold the gold fixtures, though, and made a nice buck. > Back to the subject of my hypothetical axe murder house: there will definitely be a library, by necessity. I have a ton and a half of books. I am also hoping for a conservatory. (Hmm, sounds like what I really want is the Clue house.) It gets better. The partner of the contractor who did the work on that house was murdered (but not in my old house). The killer died in prison. I can’t find anything on Google about it, though. Robin ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-live-in-a-murder-house/291181/34 "2005-03-01T10:36:49Z")
The only thing cooler than a murder house would be a _celebrity_ murder house. Did they really tear 10050 Cielo Drive down? That would be a creepy house to live in… mm [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-live-in-a-murder-house/291181.md?page=1)