Murder Homes
by iHeartPodcasts
The real estate market has never been hotter. Houses sell as soon as they’re listed. Bidding wars lead to all cash deals far above the asking price. But there is one kind of property that often sits on the market for years, no matter how much of a bargain it seems to be. Potential buyers come and go, the price keeps going down, and still the house stands empty.
In real estate jargon, it’s called a “stigmatized property” because the home comes with a history. An unfortunate one – a horrible death occurred here. But what few people know is exactly what happened.... or why.
Each week, Murder Homes tells the story of a single property. Who lived there? What secrets did they keep, and what did they leave behind? Part history, part murder mystery, this podcast mixes expert interviews, witness accounts, and court records to pull back the curtain on the hidden stories each property has to tell.
Would you be able to live somewhere that seems perfect, if it weren’t for the ghosts of its past?
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Episodes
Rampley Trail
27m · PublishedNo one in Canton, N.C will ever forget the “Goat Man,” and what ended his life on May 16th, 1991. Some call it a freak accident, some call it justice, and some call it murder, still angry that the killer walked free. On four legs.
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Oak Street
41m · PublishedBen Terry, incarcerated at Jefferson County Correctional center, takes us back in time to July 4th, 2006, when he finally decides to confront the man who has been bullying him for years in the small town of Clinton. The story of a homicide in a small town and one prisoner’s attempt to come to terms with the past, and a bleak, unforgiving future.
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Vanderbilt Avenue
39m · PublishedOn a chilly night in September, 1958, an intruder breaks into a two-bedroom home and fatally stabs the mother and father living there, leaving three children alive. Days later, the homicides will cause mass hysteria across the country as attention focuses on a suspect that no one could have imagined – their eight-year-old son.
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Special Episode: Crime-Scene Clean-Up
25m · PublishedMatt and his producer JB travel to a location they cannot disclose to meet a crime scene cleanup crew. A shocking triple homicide has occurred and the murderer is in custody, but a gruesome crime scene still has to be dealt with. An up-close, visceral look at what happens behind-the-scenes at a real murder home.
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Hinterkaifeck
28m · PublishedThe "Hinterkaifeck Murders" are one of Germany's most infamous crimes and one of its most puzzling cold cases. In the winter of 1922, the Gruber family's nerves were shattered by signs that someone had been watching them. Footsteps in the snow. Strange noises in the attic. A broken lock on a barn door. On March 31st, 1922, all six are found viciously slaughtered with an ax and a hunt begins for a maddeningly elusive murderer.
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222 Brooklyn Avenue
19m · PublishedIn the summer of 1975, a maniacal preacher named Vernon LeGrande hits upon a brilliant scheme to use fake nuns to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in the New York City subways. His forty disciples operate out of a three-story brownstone in Crown Heights and a summer camp called "LeGrande Acres" in the bucolic Catskills, where the bodies of his followers are still being discovered to this day.
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Westminster Drive
26m · PublishedIt’s just before Thanksgiving in the upper middle class suburb of Rock Hill, South Carolina, and a young man named Jimmy Robertson is standing in the den of his parents’ home, contemplating the unthinkable. After squandering all the opportunities he’s been given in life, and freshly kicked out of an elite college, he has a diabolical plan for those who love him the most.
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Cavalier Landing Court
26m · PublishedAn overzealous detective trying to infiltrate a betting scheme in Fairfax County, Virginia, targets an innocent and well-liked optometrist named Sal Culosi in a three-month undercover investigation, culminating in his shocking death.
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Announcing Season 2
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Bonus: Did Rachel James solve the Villisca murders?
12m · PublishedRachel James is the co-author of the bestselling book, The Man from the Train, which has garnered plenty of attention by claiming to solve the Villisca ax murders, one of Iowa’s most notorious crimes. Rachel, together with author Bill James, her father, say they now have the identity of the person who the murdered eight people in the quaint home on 2nd street. They say his name is Paul Mueller. We talk to Rachel about what she’s learned. The book also links Mueller to a murder home in Germany that we will be covering in Season 2.
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Murder Homes has 26 episodes in total of explicit content. Total playtime is 9:36:28. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 12th 2023. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 27th, 2024 12:41.