Would you live in a murderers house or estate?

whiskeyman · 07-03-2008 03:23PM #1

This came up recently when talking to the OH.
Think is was about the recent Kearney trial, where he got life for murdering his wife.
If the house came up on the market, and it was exactly what you were looking for, (and you could afford it), would you have any issues buying it and living there?
Would it freak you out, knowing what happened there?

Would you even live in the nearby houses it happened?

Anyone have any experience of something like this happen to them?

Adam · 07-03-2008 03:25PM

Someone has died everywhere.

Mods, you may now lock.

Dragan · 07-03-2008 03:26PM

Lived in my apartment building for 3 weeks when it was raided by cops.

The had picked up a guy in a local pub for waving a piece about during a fight. Arrested him and got a warrant, checked his house and car to find he was a hitman.

Awesome.

Jigsaw · 07-03-2008 03:27PM

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest, but then again I am not superstitious or believe in ghosts etc.

A friend of mine moved into a house in Belfast where a young woman was raped and murdered. It was only renting but the house had been done up after the incident and it was looking really well. A lot of people were freaked out and gave it a miss, but my friend just thought bollix to that - it is bricks and mortar and just moved in. I visited several times. Nice house for cheap rent. Sounds good to me.

ScumLord · 07-03-2008 03:33PM

I wouldn't mind it at all, I'd move in on the down low and assume the murderers identity. People would then take me seriously when I made verbal threats on their life's.

MrJoeSoap · 07-03-2008 03:34PM

If I could get a house cheaper because it was a murder-scene then fair play, where do I sign?

This thread reminds me of when Marge was selling the murder-house to Flanders.

"These curtains are to die for!"

Ruu_Old · 07-03-2008 04:23PM

I wouldn't mind at all.

Rod: [pretending to stab Todd with an invisible knife] Look, daddy, I'm the jealous jockey!
Todd: I'm a torso!
Ned: Heh heh, you sure are, son

07-03-2008 04:38PM

I live a few doors away from where this happened http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0525/oconnorr.html & my little sister and her friends nearly had to be witnesses until he pleadly guilty. The guy was a total physcho and I knew him my whole life.

AlmightyCushion · 07-03-2008 05:00PM

KaG1888 wrote: »

I live a few doors away from where this happened http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0525/oconnorr.html & my little sister and her friends nearly had to be witnesses until he pleadly guilty. The guy was a total physcho and I knew him my whole life.

It would have been funny if that linked to a story of someone getting fined for not paying their tv license.

MrJoeSoap · 07-03-2008 05:01PM

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

It would have been funny if that linked to a story of someone getting fined for not paying their tv license.

Rofl, I don't even want to open the link now, I'm just going to imagine it was just that.

Latchy · 07-03-2008 05:03PM

Dont think i could live in a house knowing sombody had being murdered , prefer not to know tbh which i suppose is immpossible not to .

MikeHoncho · 07-03-2008 05:03PM

Dont know about live with but I worked with a guy in Boston who had been in prison for attempted murder. The technicalities were never explained to me but he was a nice dude and I got on well him. Never had an issue with it.

07-03-2008 05:03PM

Far from it Mr Soap

MrJoeSoap · 07-03-2008 05:05PM

KaG1888 wrote: »

Far from it Mr Soap

http://www.thechc.ca/images/Dave.jpg

phantom_lord · 07-03-2008 05:05PM

i'd have no probs living in his old house.

subway · 07-03-2008 05:06PM

i wouldnt share a house with anyone, murderer or not

longshanks · 07-03-2008 05:18PM

i know a chap who bought a house last year where a young fella had been killed. he got a decent price. i've been up there a couple of times playing cards, no sign of any ghosties

Krieg · 07-03-2008 05:54PM

As horrible as it sounds, Ive been hoping for some serial killer or other deviant will crop up in the area. The kind that will bury the bodies under the floor boards, get caught, sentenced etc. Then I buy the house for 30% original price

I think Fred Wests house went for £60000 when it was worth almost 10 times as much

Run_to_da_hills · 07-03-2008 06:04PM

There was a house for sale in Delmege Park Moyross for 50K over the last 4 years. It was taken off the market about 4 months ago when its owners were told they will get up to 300k towards the value of a new house in the area when they kick out the skumbags.

Hitchhiker's Guide to... · 07-03-2008 06:08PM

whiskeyman wrote: »

This came up recently when talking to the OH.

out of interest, what does "OH" mean?

monkeyfudge · 07-03-2008 06:18PM

Roundtower2 wrote: »

out of interest, what does "OH" mean?

'Other Half'

It's an incredibly annoying acronym.

My brother lives just down the road from the Kearney's place in Soller. That's lovely place now.

gidget · 07-03-2008 06:50PM

Don't think so. Could you imagine what body parts you might discover if you were to buy the house where the Mulhall sister's carried out that murder. Now there's a property that has been on the market for a long time!!!

andrewh5 · 07-03-2008 06:52PM

Asbad wrote: »

I think Fred Wests house went for £60000 when it was worth almost 10 times as much

Fred West's house was demolished.

Overheal · 07-03-2008 06:55PM

its sad to think house prices have gone this bad that most of us would take the murderhouse

Adam · 07-03-2008 07:05PM

Overheal wrote: »

its sad to think house prices have gone this bad that most of us would take the murderhouse

Nothing to do with house prices, I vote we move this thread over to Bargain Alerts!

de5p0i1er · 07-03-2008 08:18PM

With the prices in Ireland I'd take what I could get.

AckwelFoley · 07-03-2008 08:21PM

I know a guy that moved from Dublin and Butchered his wife and kids locally.

Id live in the house... a quick 2 coats of paint and a plug in Air freshner and im all set.

randylonghorn · 07-03-2008 08:33PM

snyper wrote: »

Id live in the house... a quick 2 coats of paint and a plug in Air freshner and im all set.

But what would you do to the house, though?

dsmythy · 07-03-2008 11:41PM

Asbad wrote: »

As horrible as it sounds, Ive been hoping for some serial killer or other deviant will crop up in the area. The kind that will bury the bodies under the floor boards, get caught, sentenced etc. Then I buy the house for 30% original price

All well and good except for the fact that a lunatic lived nearby you possibly for years.

rosarosa · 08-03-2008 01:51AM

When I first moved in with my husband (then bf), we went to see a place to rent. Everything was going well till we went into the kitchen and the estate agent told us that the owner of the place had had a heart attack and died on the kitchen table, where he was found the next day by a neighbour:eek:

We didn't take it.

I've always wanted to ask that agent....but....why did you tell us?

Krieg · 08-03-2008 01:54AM

andrewh5 wrote: »

Fred West's house was demolished.

Yes but It was sold on auction
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000510/ai_n14312203

I was wrong though, that price was much higher then what was expected.
So their house actually increased in price because of the killings? Logic is failing me.

dsmythy wrote: »

All well and good except for the fact that a lunatic lived nearby you possibly for years.

Meh, I wont lose sleep over it. Not on my new serial killers mattress

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