Murder Homes

When a father and son go on a killing spree, the residents of Leonia, N,J., where everyone leaves their door unlocked, are the last people who expect a bloody home invasion. The unlikeliest hero emerges as a nurse named Maria Fasching places herself in harm’s way.

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When a beautiful woman named Rebecca Zahau is found hanging naked from a balcony of one of the most expensive mansions in Coronado, California, bound and gagged, authorities are quick to rule her death a suicide. As new, troubling facts emerge about the case, suspicion begins to fall on her brother-in-law, who cut her down and tried to save her as he talked to 911. Nothing is as it seems as airtight alibis slowly unravel, and even the intricate clove-hitch knots she supposedly tied around her wrists are removed from cardboard tubes and presented to a spellbound jury.

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On a stifling August morning in 1892, a young woman named Lizzie Borden is about to discover the dead body of her father on the parlor sofa. As her screams are heard by neighbors and her stepmother’s butchered body is also discovered, the whispers about her guilt will begin. Join host Matt Marinovich as he spends the night in the infamous place where the murders took place.

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George Hill Hodel was a brilliant physician who rubbed elbows with the cream of Los Angeles society, but after the mutilated body of a 22-year-old woman named Elizabeth Short is found in the weeds of South Norton Avenue, suspicion falls on him. After planting a listening device in his neo-Mayan mansion at 5121 Franklin Avenue, investigators begin to learn sickening secrets about his life, but always seem to be one step behind the possible murderer of the Black Dahlia."

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In her apartment above the famous Carnegie Deli in midtown Manhattan, an upscale weed dealer named Jennifer Stahl is about to get two visitors. Over the course of six minutes, the two men will commit a crime that will traumatize the city for weeks.

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A 30-year-old ex con named Matthew Hoffman is a stalker who has layered his home with thousands of pounds of dead leaves. Hunting for just the right home to invade, he soon finds his perfect opportunity. Only one person at King Beach Drive will survive his ferocious attack, and she’ll have to use all her wits to keep alive in the house of leaves he has built for her.

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On a freezing day in 2017, host Matt Marinovich walked past an ordinary-looking stucco home in Leonia, N.J. that had a shocking history. Since then, he’s been obsessed with crimes that happen where we least expect: in peaceful looking homes on quiet tree-lined streets. Take a walk with Matt to the end of the block, to the home everyone whispers about. Empty homes that real estate agents term “stigmatized” for the shocking murders that occurred there.

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A wealthy financier named Ted Ammon is relieved to be in the last stages of a bitter divorce. As he enters his mansion on a warm October day, and sees the disabled security system, he realizes his wife and her lover are plotting something terrible against him.

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The real estate market has never been hotter, 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. In real estate jargon, it’s called a “stigmatized property” because a horrible death occurred there. Each week, Murder Homes tells the story of a single stigmatized property. Who lived there? What secrets did they keep, and what did they leave behind? Take a walk down the street with host Matt Marinovich to the house everyone whispers about and step inside to hear the shocking story of a day that is still frozen in time.

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