Murder Homes

The Most Famous House in Wylie, 34 Years Later

By Candy Evans / June 13, 2014 /

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. The petite, nondescript Wylie housewife was acquitted in 1980 claiming self-defense. I attended her trial as I was working at the time for KDFW-TV.…

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Boarding House Where Lee Harvey Oswald Hung His Hat To Hit The Market in June

By Joanna England / May 15, 2013 /

  Photo: Vernon Bryant/Dallas Morning News Lee Harvey Oswald lived in the unassuming brown brick house at 1026 N. Beckley Avenue right up until he was apprehended for allegedly shooting the president. It was the last place he is known to have lived. And now it can be yours. It’ll cost you, of course. The…

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Bomb Blast in Residential Plano Neighborhood Has Neighbors Concerned, Curious, Kinda Crazy

By Candy Evans / June 19, 2012 /

This is just strange. Folks up in this nice, relatively quiet Plano neighborhood got a bit freaked out — understandably so  — over a strange series of events that involve an injured man and a possible bomb explosion near an Atmos natural gas control station in the 3600 block of West Parker Road overnight. First…

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Looks Like The Darlie Routier House of Horrors, Reduced to $99,900!! Monday Morning House Porn

By Candy Evans / August 15, 2011 /

Update: Apparently there are Routier homes all throughout Rowlett. This style of home and floorplan was popular with production builders. The actual Routier home is located on Eagle Drive.  I think my eyes are out of whack: this Rowlett home was listed at $135,000 and is now $99,900? A reader thought this looked like the…

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Is It Hard to Sell A Home Where a Murder Has Taken Place? For JonBenet Ramsey House It Has

By Candy Evans / February 23, 2011 /

My colleague Sheree Curry writes about the Boulder, Colorado home where little JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered nearly 14 years ago — how sad to think she would have been 20 years old had she lived. It’s back on the market for $2.3 million. The JonBenet murder was never solved, her mother has since died,…

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