VirtualGlobetrotting: Famous Murder Sites

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Fox Hollow Farm
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This 18 acre estate in Carmel, Indiana is the ex-home of alleged serial killer, Herb Baumeister.
Herb Baumeister was born in 1947 to a reportedly normal home. He, his parents and three siblings grew up in Indiana. As he grew up, he experienced signs of schizophrenia but never received any treatment. In the late 1960s, Herb attended Indiana University where he met his future wife, Julie. She was a high school English teacher and he was working odd jobs around town. Soon after they were wed, Herb was committed to a psychiatric hospital for a short time after becoming depressed and prone to fits of rage. In 1989, Herb and Julie opened a chain of thrift stores, Sav-A-Lot, around town and were charitable with their proceeds. Their marriage had some highs and lows and in the early 90s, they reconciled again and bought Fox Hollow for $1 Million, despite the negative turn in business proceeds.
In 1993, gay men started disappearing around the Indianapolis area. Originally, the police tried to find a suspect named Brian Smart. After a tip from someone who saw him in town and wrote down his license plate number, Herb Baumeister was determined to be Brian Smart. After multiple requests from police to search the house without a warrant, Julie finally agreed to let the police search the property while Herb was on vacation. At that time, police found the remains of 11 men. Currently, only eight of them were identified. They were all gay men that had been reported missing from the area. After a search for Herb turned up nothing, his body was found in Canada at a park about a week after the first bodies were discovered. He had committed suicide and left behind a note that did not mention the murders or the bodies in the yard, just his failing business and marriage. He is also believed to be responsible for the deaths of nine men found on the side of I-70 between Columbus, Ohio and Indianapolis as he traveled this route often for work.
The bodies were found in the sprawling woods around the house. The Tudor style home has an indoor swimming pool, where it is rumored that Herb did most of his killings. There are rumors that he had a camera in the pool area and had been seen with a stack of videos before his death; although the videos have never been found.
The home most recently had a renter who claims to have multiple encounters with spirits in the woods and the home and multiple paranormal shows have gone to the house to track any abnormal experiences.

Serial killer Ed Gein's farm
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Location of serial killer Ed Gein's farm. The house burned down in 1957.

Martha Moxley's House (former)
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This is the former site of the Moxley's modest bungalow, where lived a 15-year-old murder victim, in a case that attracted worldwide publicity in 1975. The tree in the backyard where the murder took place is apparently still there.

Red Fox Restaurant - Site Of Jimmy Hoffa's Disappearance
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American labor-union leader Jimmy Hoffa was last seen at the Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan near Detroit. At around two o’clock PM on July 30, 1975, Hoffa arrived at the parking lot of the Red Fox where he was supposed to meet with Anthony Provenzano, a labor leader with mafia ties, and Anthony “Tony Jack” Giacalone, a Detroit mafia kingpin. Between 2:15-2:30pm, Hoffa called his wife from a nearby payphone, saying that he had been stood up for his meeting and that he would be home around 4 o’clock. The FBI believes that he left the location without struggle between 2:45-2:50pm in a Mercury Marquis owned by Giacalone’s son, Joseph. Hoffa was never seen again; his remains were never found. The mystery of Hoffa’s disappearance remains of great interest to the public, though it is unlikely charges will ever be filed.
The Red Fox Restaurant was opened by restaurateur Harris Machus in 1965 and was known for its award-winning food. Machus was not pleased with the notoriety brought to the restaurant due to the connection to the mafia via Hoffa’s disappearance. Machus died at the age of 92 in 2001. The location is now the site of a chain Italian restaurant, Andiamo.
Anthony Giacalone was convicted in 1976 of tax evasion and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He died in 2002 at the age of 82. Anthony Provenzano was convicted in 1978 of the murder of Anthony Castellitto and sentenced to life in prison, where he died in 1988.

Chris Benoit's House (former)
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On June 25, 2007, Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy, and their 7-year-old son Daniel were found dead in their Fayetteville, Georgia, home at around 2:30 p.m. EDT. The Fayette County, Georgia Sheriff's Department is currently investigating this case. Lieutenant Tommy Pope reported to ABC News that police entered Benoit's home on a "welfare check" after several missed appointments, leading to concerns. Pope also stated the police are not searching for any suspects outside of the house, as the instruments of death were located at the scene of the crime. Detective Bo Turner of the Fayette County Sheriff's Department told television station WAGA-TV that the case was being treated as a murder-suicide. The station reported that investigators believe that Benoit murdered his wife and son over the weekend and committed suicide sometime on Monday.
Benoit was best known is his time as a professional wrestler. During his 22-year career, Benoit worked for numerous promotions including the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment (WWF/WWE), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). Benoit held 22 championships between WWF/WWE, WCW, NJPW, and ECW. He was a two-time world champion, having been a one-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, and a one-time World Heavyweight Champion in WWE. Benoit was the twelfth WWE Triple Crown Champion and seventh WCW Triple Crown Champion, and the second of four men in history to achieve both the WWE and WCW Triple Crown Championships. He was also the 2004 Royal Rumble winner, joining Shawn Michaels as the only two men to win a Royal Rumble as the number one entrant. Benoit headlined multiple pay-per-views for WWE, including a victory in the World Heavyweight Championship main event match of WrestleMania XX in 2004.
In a double-murder and suicide, Benoit murdered his wife on June 22, 2007, his son on June 23, 2007, and hanged himself on June 24, 2007. Research suggests depression and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a condition of brain damage, from numerous concussions are likely contributing factors leading to the crimes

Nicole Brown Simpson & Ron Goldman's Murder Site
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Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were stabbed to death in front of her apartment complex on 875 South Bundy Drive in Brentwood. Her apartment was located in the northern corner of the complex in the center.

The home of Claudinnea Dee Dee and Gypsy Blanchard
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Essex boys The Rettendon Triple Murder Site
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On 6 December 1995, Rettendon was the scene of the triple murder of Patrick Tate, Tony Tucker, and Craig Rolfe, three drug dealers shot dead in a Range Rover down a small farm track. The films Essex Boys, starring Sean Bean, Rise of the Footsoldier and Bonded by Blood are all based on the crime.

Travis Alexander's House & Death Site
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This is the house where the Murder of Travis Alexander took place. Jodi Arias, Alexander's ex-girlfriend, murdered him on June 4, 2008. She was convicted of 1st degree murder on May 8, 2013, and on April 13, 2014, she was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Alexander was an American salesman who was murdered by his ex-girlfriend, Jodi Ann Arias, in this house in Mesa, Arizona. At the time of the murder, Alexander sustained 27 knife wounds and a gunshot to the head. Arias testified that she killed him in self-defense, but she did not convince a jury. The murder and trial received widespread media attention in the United States. Please remember that this home is owned, and is a private residence.
On July 9, 2008, Arias's 28th birthday, she was indicted by a grand jury in Maricopa County, Arizona, for the first-degree murder of Alexander. She was arrested at her home later the same day and extradited to Arizona on September 5. Arias pleaded not guilty on September 11. During this time, she gave several different accounts about her involvement in Alexander's death. She originally told police that she had not been in Mesa on the day of the murder and had last seen Alexander in March 2008. Arias later told police that two intruders had broken into Alexander's home, murdering him and attacking her. Two years after her arrest, Arias told police that she killed Alexander in self-defense, claiming that she had been a victim of domestic violence.
The case was well publicized as the murder itself was so gruesome and Aria’s testimony was similary intense. The media scrutiny lead to a firestorm of information spreading around the case. During the trial, public figures freely expressed their opinions. "Jodi Arias has stated that she follows me on Twitter so I really hate to be saying that she is guilty but sadly, she is as guilty as it gets", Donald Trump wrote.

Selena Murder Site (Days Inn Airport at I-37)
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From www.homestead.com/SelenaRemembered2:
[Days Inn] requests that Selena fans abstain from visiting to give their guests greater privacy; Selena was shot in Room 158, March 31, 1995. Furthermore, all rooms have been renumbered using odd numbers only; the Days Inn has a policy prohibiting their employees from disclosing which room had been number 158. Signs are also posted at the beginning of each driveway leading to the back from the Registration Office stating, "Only registered guests beyond this point."
You can find Selena obituaries at elvispelvis.com.

Site of Jonestown in Guyana
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Sharon Tate's Murder Site (Demolished)
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10050 Cielo Drive was the street address of a former luxury home in Benedict Canyon, in the west-central part of the Beverly Crest neighborhood of Los Angeles, bordering Beverly Hills, where three members of the Manson Family committed the Tate murders in 1969.
The property had a main residence and a guest house. The main house had been occupied by various famous Hollywood and music industry figures. In 1994, both houses were demolished and a new house was constructed on the site, and the street address was changed to 10066 Cielo Drive.
The original house was designed by Robert Byrd in 1942 and completed in 1944 for French actress Michèle Morgan. It was very similar, but not exactly identical, to the house which sat on its own plateau directly below 10050, 10048 Cielo Drive, which was often called the Twin House. They were originally built on land called The Bedrock Properties and were built at the same time.
The French country-style structure was located on 3 acres (1.2 ha), and included a private drive on Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, an area west of Hollywood in the Santa Monica Mountains that overlooks Beverly Hills and Bel Air. The hillside structure faced east and featured stone fireplaces, beamed ceilings, paned windows, a loft above the living room, a swimming pool and a guest house, and was surrounded by thick pine and flowering cherry trees.
According to official documents with the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety, the architect of record for this home was Arthur W. Hawes (1873–1951). The builder was J.F. Wadkins Corp.
Michèle Morgan, French actress for RKO Radio Pictures, arranged for architect Robert Byrd to design a home and J.F. Wadkins to build the luxury home resembling an early 19th-century European style farmhouse. The house was completed in 1944, with an address of 10050 Cielo Drive. It was on a 3.3-acre level lot above Benedict Canyon in Beverly Hills. The home included a 3,200 square foot main residence and 2,000 square foot guest cottage. According to the Los Angeles Times, Morgan paid $32,000 (equivalent to $470,000 in 2020). By the end of World War II, Morgan had returned to France. The house was later sold to Dr. Hartley Dewey and his wife Louise who rented it to Lillian Gish in 1946, while she was filming Duel in the Sun.
Rudolph Altobelli (1929–2011), a music and film industry talent manager, bought the house for $86,000 in the early 1960s (equivalent to $0.78 million in 2021) and often rented it out. Residents included Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon (it was their honeymoon nest in 1965), Henry Fonda, George Chakiris, Mark Lindsay, Samantha Eggar, and Olivia Hussey. Charles Manson visited the house in late 1968, when it was occupied (from May 1966 to January 1969) by couple Terry Melcher (the son of actress Doris Day) and Candice Bergen with roommate/talent-manager Roger Hart. The couple split in early 1969, with Melcher relocating to Malibu.
In February 1969, Roman Polanski and his wife Sharon Tate began renting the home from Altobelli. On August 8–9, 1969, the home became the scene of the murders of Tate, Wojciech Frykowski, Abigail Folger, Jay Sebring, and Steven Parent committed by Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, and Patricia Krenwinkel. William Garretson, Altobelli's caretaker and an acquaintance of Parent, lived in the guest house behind the main house and originally said he was unaware of the murders until the next morning, when he was taken into custody by police officers who had arrived at the scene. He was later cleared of all charges.
Altobelli moved into the house just three weeks after the murders and resided there until 1988. During an interview on ABC's show 20/20, he said that while living there, he felt "safe, secure, loved and beauty". The house was then sold to John Prell, a real estate investor. The purchase price was $1.6 million in 1989 (equivalent to $3.5 million in 2021). In 1992, Prell sold the property to Alvin Weintraub, another real estate investor.
The final resident of the original house was the musician Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. Reznor rented the house from 1992 and set up a recording studio there. This studio, dubbed "Pig" (sometimes called "Le Pig") in a reference to murderer Susan Atkins' writing "Pig" in Tate's blood on the front door of the house, was the site of recording sessions for most of the Nine Inch Nails album The Downward Spiral (1994). The band also recorded the EP Broken and filmed the video for "Gave Up" at 10050 Cielo Drive. Marilyn Manson recorded sections of the album Portrait of an American Family at the in-house studio in 1992.
Reznor moved out in December 1993, later explaining "there was too much history in that house for me to handle."
Reznor took the front door of the house with him when he moved out, installing it at Nothing Studios, his new recording studio/record label headquarters in New Orleans. Nothing Studios was later sold and the façade of the building changed. The front door Reznor removed from 10050 Cielo Drive is currently preserved in the possession of Christopher Moore, a New Orleans artist who acquired it from the owner of the building.
After renting out the house, Alvin Weintraub had it demolished in 1994, and construction on a new home began later that same year. In 1996, the newly constructed home was completed, that he named Villa Bella, and obtained a new address for the property, 10066 Cielo Drive. The home does not resemble the residence in which the Tate murders occurred. It is an 18,000-square-foot Mediterranean-style mansion. When he listed Villa Bella for sale in 1998, Weintraub assured Los Angeles magazine that this was certainly not the Manson murder house. "We went to great pains to get rid of everything ... There’s no house, no dirt, no blade of grass remotely connected to Sharon Tate."
The owner of the property as of December 2013 was Hollywood producer Jeff Franklin. In 2010, he had made this comment to Architectural Digest: "What I fell in love with here was the setting, the view, the privacy and the amount of flat land" but complained that the design of the house was badly conceived. The property was on the market in August 2019, showing an estimated price of $9.7 million. It again was on the market in January 2022 for $85 million, reduced in price in June 2022 to just under $70 million.

Charles Manson's Barker Ranch
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Barker Ranch is located inside Death Valley National Park in eastern California. Used as a mining and recreational property from the 1940s to the 1960s, it is infamous due to its association with Charles Manson and his "family". It was the family's de facto headquarters.
Barker Ranch is located in a rock- and boulder-filled valley in the Panamint Range. It is accessible only by sandy, primitive and rugged roads. Streams feed this little valley and provide much vegetation. There is a small one-room guest house located to the side of the main house. There is also a five-thousand-gallon "swimming pool" (in reality a reservoir to store water from the spring) made from cement and rock boulders towards the back of the property.
Bluch and Helen Thomason began construction of Barker Ranch around 1940. It was originally used as a storage and shop facility to support their mining activity in the area. They constructed a small cabin and out building, with electricity provided by a windmill and generator, and drinking water from a nearby spring. In 1950, Bluch Thomason died and the ranch became a seasonal vacation property.
The ranch was sold to James and Arlene Barker of Oklahoma in 1955. The Barkers engaged in gold and uranium mining in the area through the rest of the 1950s and the 1960s. To accommodate their family gatherings, the Barkers enlarged the house and constructed more out buildings.
The closest habitation to Barker Ranch is Myers Ranch. The ranch was built in 1932 by Bill and Barbara Myers. The Myers family resided on the property until 1960 when they relocated to Fresno. Myers Ranch is currently a 40-acre (16 ha) private inholding within Death Valley National Park owned by the Myers family.
In 1968, Charles Manson learned about the Myers Ranch from Catherine Gillies, the granddaughter of Barbara Myers. Starting in November 1968, Manson and others began staying at the ranch and discovered the nearby Barker Ranch. The buildings at Barker Ranch being in better condition, the Family relocated there and later obtained Arlene Barker's permission to use the property on a temporary basis. At times, the Family was using both properties.
The Inyo County sheriff department, California Highway Patrol, and National Park Service Law Enforcement Rangers captured the group in raids on October 10 and October 12, 1969. Manson was caught hiding under the kitchen sink. At the time of his arrest they were unaware of the magnitude of their find. They wanted to prosecute the persons responsible for vandalism within Death Valley National Monument further north, unaware that they had a mass-murder suspect and his followers.
In early 1970, members of the Manson Family were filmed by Robert Hendrickson at Barker Ranch, sorting through, and taking evidence left behind by detectives, for the making of the Oscar-nominated documentary Manson.
In 1971, Arlene Barker ceased to file reports with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on the family's mining activity. The land (and improvements) then reverted to government control. In 1976, the ranch became part of the California Desert Conservation Area. In 1994, it was incorporated into Death Valley National Park.
Today the remnants of the ranch belong to National Park Service.
In early 2008, after decades of persistent rumors of additional Manson family murder victims, forensic investigators performed testing at the ranch for possible buried human remains. Using state of the art technology not available 40 years ago, investigators located several sites consistent with possible clandestine graves. In May 2008, investigators conducted a "dig" at the sites; however, further searching by authorities was called off due to finding no evidence or victim remains during the search.
Due to a fire in May 2009, most of the main structure has been destroyed with only the concrete and rock portion of the cabin still standing.

XXXTentacion shooting site
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American rapper XXXTentacion was shot and killed at this location on June 18, 2018. He had been shopping for motorcycles, and was shot in his car by an unknown assailant while leaving the dealer.

Site of Jeffrey Dahmer's Apartment
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This is where Jeffrey Dahmer lived and murdered 13 of his 17 victims.
The apartment block was demolished in 1992.

Site of mobile home of David Parker Ray "Toy-Box Killer"
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David Parker Ray, was a suspected American serial killer, and known torturer of women. He soundproofed a truck trailer that he called his "toy box", and equipped it with items used for torture. 513 Bass Road in Elephant Butte.

Chris Watts' house (Watts family homicides)
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This is the house where Chris Watts (born May 16, 1985) murdered his pregnant wife, Shanann Watts (born January 10, 1984) and his two daughters, Bella (4) and Celeste (3) on August 12, 2018.

John List Murder site
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John Emil List (September 17, 1925 - March 21, 2008) was an American murderer. On November 9, 1971, he murdered his wife, mother, and three children in Westfield, New Jersey, and then disappeared. He had planned everything so meticulously that nearly a month passed before anyone noticed that anything was amiss. A fugitive from justice for nearly 18 years, he was finally apprehended on June 1, 1989 after the story of his murders was broadcast on America's Most Wanted. List was found guilty and sentenced to five consecutive terms of life imprisonment, dying in prison custody in 2008 at age 82.

Sean Taylor's House
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The Washington Redskins Pro Bowl safety lived here.
Early in the morning of November 26, 2007, he was awoken by an intruder. Taylor suffered a severe gunshot wound to his leg after getting up to investigate. He passed away the next morning at a nearby hospital.

Former Nazi German Concentration Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Body of Child: Caylee Anthony?
Location where a utility worker found bones of a child wrapped in plastic, on December 11, 2008. The location is near the home of missing toddler Caylee Anthony's grandparents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caylee_Anthony_disappearance

John Du Pont's House "Foxcatcher Farm" (Former)
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John Du Pont was heir to the Du Pont family fortune. He was an author and wrestling coach.
He was played by Steve Carell in the 2014 film, Foxcatcher, which told the story of his 1996 murder of Olympis wrestler, Dave Schultz, portrayed in the film by Channing Tatum.
**The entire farm has since been destroyed in preparation for construction on a new community to be built by Toll Brothers.

Serial Killer Gary Ridgway's House (Former)
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This is the house that "the Green River Killer," Gary Ridgway, lived in before he eventually sold it in May of 1999. It is situated at 21859 32nd Place South in SeaTac, Washington. Ridgway is one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. During the 1980s and 1990s, he murdered at least 49 women. He managed to elude capture for nearly two decades. However, his luck finally ran out in 2001 after investigators linked his DNA to samples found on some of the victims. In November of 2003, he confessed to his crimes and entered a guilty plea in order to avoid the death penalty. According to his confessions, Ridgway brought most of his victims back to this house before murdering them.

The Pyrenees Castle - Phil Spector's Former House (Lana Clarkson's Murder Site)
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The record producer and songwriter lived in this 10-bed mansion in the Los Angeles suburbs. Known as "Castle Pyrenees", the estate was once a 28-room hotel. On February 3, 2003, Spector was arrested for murder after the body of 40-year-old starlet Lana Clarkson of Los Angeles was found at his faux-castle mansion in Alhambra, California. Police responded to a 9-1-1 phone call from one of Spector's neighbors and discovered Clarkson, who had been shot and was pronounced dead at the scene. On November 20, 2003, Spector was indicted for Clarkson's murder.
Spector bought the estate in 1998 for $1.1 Million and lived there until 2009 when he was sentenced for second-degree murder. Spector and his ex-wife Rachelle put the house on the market in 2019 for $5.5 Million. The estate was sold for $3.3 Million in 2021, months after Spector died in prison.

Location Where Black Dahlia's Body Was Found
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On January 15, 1947, while walking with her three-year-old daughter toward the cobbler, Betty Bersinger spotted a figure laying flat in the distance. As she and her toddler daughter approached what looked like a discarded department-store mannequin, Bersinger realized her eyes had deceived her. There, severed in half bilaterally, was the naked corpse of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short — later known as Black Dahlia — mutilated and completely drained of blood (this made Short’s body appear unnaturally white, like a mannequin).
The lower half of Short’s body had been positioned 12 inches from the torso, both segments apparently washed clean by the killer. In addition to several lacerations on her thighs & breasts and obvious manipulation of the limbs so as to pose Short’s body, her intestines had been pulled out and placed underneath her buttocks. Perhaps the most famous facet of her butchering, though, were the facial carvings that stretched from mouth to ear creating a facetious smile. Due to the lack of blood surrounding the scene, investigators deduced that the murder had happened elsewhere.
The autopsy report proved that her body had been cut in half post-mortem, and Elizabeth Short’s cause of death was determined to be a combination of shock from blows to the head & face and hemorrhaging caused by the smile-like lacerations.
Her murderer was never identified.