Posted on 05/22/2007 6:48:07 AM PDT by Rita Hayworth
A family in Central Florida is outraged that they were kept in the dark about their new house's dark secret: A triple murder and suicide happened within the four walls they'd just begun to call home. John and Kathy Johnson and their 24-year-old daughter Christina were horrified to learn that their bucolic Lake County ranch home was the scene of such a bloody crime — and worse, that the realtor and seller kept quiet about the grisly homicide. But on May 5, when the Johnsons moved into the Greenbrier Street residence, a neighbor mentioned that local police Cpl. Michael Mount of Eustis, Fla., gunned down his estranged wife Kim, fellow cop Joe Gomez and Gomez' wife Serena in a jealous rage in February 2006, according to The Orlando Sentinel. He then shot and killed himself. The crimes took place in what was then the Gomez family's house. A minor in the family inherited the property. "There was no way we could ever stay here," Christina Johnson told the Sentinel as she stood in the master bedroom, where three of the four victims perished. "It would be like living in a morgue." Her mother, Kathy Johnson, said the family thought about staying in the home, but after finding out what had happened, they were scared to death and felt fearful whenever they were inside. "We couldn't live with someone dying in the house," she said in a telephone interview with FOXNews.com. The house cost the Johnsons $227,000, but a Florida state law — one they want amended — allows real estate companies to withhold information about their properties' unsavory pasts, including homicides, suicides or deaths that occurred on the premises. "They don't have to reveal that three people died and a person committed suicide in the home," she said.
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Tell them to “get over it.”
“What a revolting development this is!”
-Chester A. Riley
Oopsie.
“There was no way we could ever stay here”
Give me a break.
Suck it up people.
In Mexifornia those things have to be disclosed. Here they could sue the sellers pants off.
I don’t think it’d bother me all that much, as long as the place was cleaned up and repainted. I don’t believe in ghosts. I would be more alarmed if the house were in a high crime area.
I don’t blame them for being upset.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9E06EEDF1E3DF935A35751C1A961958260
“I don’t think it’d bother me all that much...”
Didn’t you see Amityville Horror? GET OUT!!! :-)
Oh, for heaven's sake.
Any house of any age has had somebody die in it - and be born in it. And more than you'd think have had somebody killed in them.
But what about the houses where people going through an ugly divorce fought all the time? Or depression? Or suicide? Kipling even wrote a short story about this, based on a real life experience he and his wife had with buying a haunted house, but haunted by the wraiths of the living, not the dead: The House Surgeon
This is a particularly grisly incident and recent, which makes it a bit more unnerving.
But if they're freaking about it, they should have the priest come and do the full exorcism/house blessing thing.
YOU ONLY MOVED THE HEADSTONES! YOU LEFT THE BODIES BUT YOU ONLY MOVED THE HEADSTONES!
How is this family's mental instability the fault of the realtor?
Poltergeist 4?
How ridiculous.
We sure have gotten soft.
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