Murder Homes
The case of Lyle and Erik Menendez is more than 30 years old, but sometimes real estate news happens in real time. Local podcasters and Realtors Heather Guild of Compass and Elena Richey of Standard Real Estate reviewed the case of the Menendez brothers in Episode 27 of their “Crime Estate” podcast. While the episode was…
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I’ve talked about how homes have lives just like people do: “A 100-year-old home may be the meaningful setting of a bridal shower or a funeral reception, someone’s first breath or their last, a gleeful war homecoming or a dreaded knock at the door.” Well, homes can see bad things happen, too. While it may…
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When CandysDirt.com heard Compass Realtor Heather Guild was doing a podcast on true crime and real estate called Crime Estate, we were intrigued. When we heard Episode 7, “The Queen of Swiss Avenue,” we were hooked. I personally dropped everything to binge-listen all 17 episodes (for research). Our resident murder house expert Shelby Skrhak is still pouting…
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The “Love and Death” tale of Candy Montgomery is the salacious news story that candysdirt.com readers can’t get enough of. Anyone who lived in North Texas in the early 1980s remembers the murder of Betty Gore, and the murder trial of Candace Montgomery, the woman who killed her with an ax. Then, as now, the…
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It was Dec. 26, 1996 when JonBenét Ramsey, a six-year-old Colorado pageant queen, became a tragic household name. She was found murdered in the basement of her sprawling Boulder home, and now the infamous home is back on the market again. The home, located at 749 15th St. in Boulder, is listed by Realtors Jeffery…
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