A chain-link fence surrounds the stately brick mansion at 3201 Woodland Dr. NW in Woodley Park. Most of the windows are covered with plywood. Cars sometimes drive past slowly, with passengers leaning out...
In May, Savvas and Amy Savopoulos; their 10-year-old son, Philip; and their housekeeper, Veralicia Figueroa, were brutally killed inside. Now, less than six months after the shocking quadruple homicide that horrified Washington, the house is for sale.
Asking price? $3.25 million.
— Washington Post
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Classic American Horror Story story. I thought the first season of AHS was great. In haunted house-type stories I normally think "you idiots, just leave the house..." In AHS the occupants had moved across the country and spent everything they had to unknowingly buy into a haunted house. Of course no one disclosed the grisly murders that occurred in the house, and then when they went to sell it / get out from under it, they couldn't. 2009-2010 housing market horror story was the most realistic horror story they could come up with. All that said, I ain't afraid of no ghost...
Surprised the bank gave the property to the people of Newtown after the shooting there, seems very unlike a bank and pretty reasonable.
From the article:
In 2003, Brian Betts paid $324,000 for a cute four-bedroom brick Colonial on Columbia Boulevard in Silver Spring. Within days of his moving in, a neighbor shared something that his agent had not: A year earlier, Gregory Russell and his 9-year-old daughter, Erika, had been shot and killed during a robbery in the house...
...In April 2010, Betts — then a beloved middle-school principal — was shot and killed during a robbery in the house.
Betts’s family wanted the cursed house leveled, but there was still a mortgage on the property. The bank foreclosed on the property and listed it at $530,000 in May 2011. It didn’t sell. The price dropped to $515,000. Still no offers. It finally sold in early 2012 — for $330,000.
Did they ever ask where that real estate agent was on the night of the murder?
The "art"? Lie and omit!
Or, given some realtors talent for creative interpretation, spin a new narrative : "The previous owners discovered a fabulous portal into hell just underneath the polished hardwood floors. And all that blood that suddenly fills the bathtub every full moon? It gives the bathroom a homey, personal touch."
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