# So you say that a horrible murder occurred in your house. . . **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 4, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-say-that-a-horrible-murder-occurred-in-your-house/243475 "2004-05-04T15:45:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-say-that-a-horrible-murder-occurred-in-your-house/243475/41 "2004-05-05T15:19:51Z")
> [@Call me Frank](#): > > I wouldn’t move into a house where a murder occurred… and I think it would depend on the facts surrounding the attempted murder, if I’d move into _that_ house. > > Related anecdote: > My dad lived in Germany for about 9 years in an appartment in which a man had hung himself in the garage, IIRC. > > He moved back to the States for 2 years and then returned to Germany. This time he and his wife wanted to buy a house and one of the houses had a grisly tale. Apparently, the former owner had drowned his children in the bath tub which may or may not have been subsequently replaced. > > They didn’t move into that one. I’m with your Dad. A simple suicide or one-on-one murder I might be able to take. Something like a mass slaughter or especially child-murder would creep me out too much. ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-say-that-a-horrible-murder-occurred-in-your-house/243475/42 "2004-05-05T15:20:55Z")
Oh hush Eve… You all know I meant your house… though being built in 1899 its a young’un next to your house. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2004, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-say-that-a-horrible-murder-occurred-in-your-house/243475/43 "2004-05-05T15:24:48Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > I’m with your Dad. A simple suicide or one-on-one murder I might be able to take. Something like a mass slaughter or especially child-murder would creep me out too much. A simple suicide? Here is hoping you never get to find out how “simple” they are. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-say-that-a-horrible-murder-occurred-in-your-house/243475/44 "2004-05-05T15:29:09Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Nothing happened in OJ’s house. The murder happened at his ex-wife’s condo in Brentwood. It was torn down. > > That property is around the corner from the house of one of my mother’s oldest friends (since before I was born). She was aquainted with the victim. The endless parade of fucking morons driving by to take their picture in front of that house essentially ruined the neighborhood. What kind of braindead tool would make a special trip to look at a fence and hedge around a condo and then pose for a snapshot? > > Haj We just drove around & around taking photos from the car. We didn’t actually get out & pose! (This was I think a year fter the murder.) ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-say-that-a-horrible-murder-occurred-in-your-house/243475/45 "2004-05-05T15:32:28Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > A simple suicide? Here is hoping you never get to find out how “simple” they are. ARRGH! _bangs head on keyboard!_ That’s not what I meant but I am not gonna remotely try to defend myself! I’m sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_Schmeese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Marconi\_Schmeese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_Schmeese)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-say-that-a-horrible-murder-occurred-in-your-house/243475/46 "2004-05-05T20:03:51Z")
No one died, per se, but a man was caught raping his stepdaughter at my parent’s lake house (before they bought it). In the master bedroom. I try to not think about it too much. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-say-that-a-horrible-murder-occurred-in-your-house/243475/47 "2004-05-05T23:51:59Z")
I lived in an old apartment building in Berlin and one of the elderly neighbors who lived there during WWII told me quite a few people from the apartment building died in the cellar under the front of the apartment complex when a bomb hit across the street and knocked the basement foundation wall on top of them. It happened in the cellar - exactly at the location I was assigned for storage of old books and stuff. Every time I went down there, I felt more sad that creeped out. ---
**Author:** ![AntaresJB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AntaresJB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AntaresJB)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2004, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-say-that-a-horrible-murder-occurred-in-your-house/243475/48 "2004-05-06T00:04:43Z")
A rather grisly murder took place in the house I lived in until I was 11. I don’t recall the details, but it was 3 people, I believe a man killed his wife and two kids. Someting about playing tic-tac-toe with a knife on their chests… yeah, it was pretty bad. I dind’t know about it for years, until a kid in elementary school was like, “You know you live in the Kepner Hill Murder house!” So I went home and asked my parents about it. ---
**Author:** ![Mariemarie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@Mariemarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mariemarie)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2004, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-say-that-a-horrible-murder-occurred-in-your-house/243475/49 "2004-05-06T02:41:55Z")
A man died from an overdose in the house where we now live. At least 2 other families have lived here in the intervening time. I don’t get any creepy feelings about it, but I feel some sadness for him when I think about it, which isn’t often. It would probably bother me more if it were a violent murder that happened recently. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2004, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-say-that-a-horrible-murder-occurred-in-your-house/243475/50 "2004-05-06T05:16:55Z")
> [@kittenlm](#): > > Oh, and the buyer thought it was one of the coolest things that [this](http://www.th-record.com/1998/01/01-16-98/suksmu.htm) happened in the house he was buying - weirdo 😛 I read this bit: > [@](#): > > A bartender at Bum and Kel’s Restaurant yesterday had mixed emotions. “Thank God that son of a bitch is dead,” said bartender Big Red, who knew Kelly for years. “It’s just too bad he took someone else with him.” at least 3 or 4 times (including once again from the top of the story) before realizing that the bartender is talking about Nolan. I was trying to find out why he hated Kelly so much. :smack: That’s one heck of a misleading sentence. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-say-that-a-horrible-murder-occurred-in-your-house/243475.md?page=2)