Crime & Real Estate
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…
This season, the most chilling effect on the housing market might have come from Netflix’s new series, The Watcher. In this true-crime household horror, an architecturally obsessed psychopath targets the buyers of a celebrated suburban home with intimidating anonymous letters. As the buyers unravel the mystery of The Watcher, they uncover some rather unsettling particulars…
Katherine Stavely Schwab’s real estate license status is inactive, and she has until September 30 to renew it. But right now, she may have other concerns. The former Century 21 Mike Bowman agent pleaded guilty last Thursday to a federal charge for her participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, mayhem at the U.S. Capitol. Schwab…
A jury convicted Kosoul Chanthakoummane in the 2006 murder of Sarah Ann Walker, a McKinney real estate agent that was found brutally assaulted and murdered in a McKinney model home, and after a lengthy appeals process, the State of Texas has executed him by lethal injection on Wednesday, Aug. 17. Walker was found dead on…
A former Richardson mayor and her developer husband will report to federal prison Oct. 24 to begin serving six-year sentences for public corruption, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office Department of Justice. Thursday’s verdict wasn’t the first conviction for Laura Maczka Jordan, who served as Richardson’s mayor from 2013 to 2015, and her husband, developer…
