Comments on: Would you buy a murder house?

By: Sandra Stefanopoulos

Sandra Stefanopoulos — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 15:12:32 +0000

In reply to Doug Parks. I am so sensitive Eve I would not even think about it! There's a house near where I live 18th and Arbutus Southwest corner I would sure love to know about. It's been sold over the years so many times. I'm not sure if it has heritage status. I've lived in the area since late '70s.

By: Shelly

Shelly — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 19:40:42 +0000

In reply to Ronald Taylor. Nice of the neighbor to discuss such a horrid story to a 9 year old!! My gawd at that age any wonder she was able to sleep!

By: Barb Dostal

Barb Dostal — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 04:17:51 +0000

In reply to Doug Parks. Definitely if the price was right.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 23:07:31 +0000

Absolutely would NOT live in any home or property where a murder has occured

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 19:43:51 +0000

I have bought and live in a murder house with the intention of honoring together with releasing the trapped spirit of the victim and then healing the house and the land which it is built upon. The house had been vacant for a number of years before I purchased it directly from the City of Langford.
Special healing/releasing ceremony was done by an Indigenous healer/medium as well as I myself did my own spiritual healing. This was done prior to the start of my renovations of the house inside and exterior. I do regular smudging with sage and have personal honoring rituals for the soul of the murder victim, a woman on an ongoing basis.
I have a spiritual connection with her spirit.

By: Annemarie Ellis

Annemarie Ellis — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 19:50:31 +0000

Wow, I just opened up this story and there was my first apartment I ever had on my own, the attic of 2549 Fraser. I lived there from 80-82. I always wondered why there was a fence around it in later years (I’d moved out of that neighbourhood and didn’t know about the murder/fire)

By: T

Sat, 13 Mar 2021 08:08:33 +0000

In reply to Doug Parks. In addition to everything else that happened at the institution, there was actually a murder at Woodlands in the 1970s where a male resident killed a female resident - it is in the Woodlands newspaper clippings file at the library.

By: Ruth Lowther

Ruth Lowther — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 23:29:45 +0000

Oops, sorry, Eve. I mistakenly said that the address of my stepmom Pat’s murder was 466 E. 46th Ave. That house is actually: 566 E. 46th Ave.

By: Ruth Lowther

Ruth Lowther — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 01:22:58 +0000

My stepmom Pat Lowther was 40 when Dad murdered her. (not 42)
Pat was born in 1935, and Dad (Roy Lowther) killed her in September 1975, the 22nd if I remember correctly. I think that house’s address is 466 East 46th Avenue. When I was allowed to visit them, they were living at 5283 St. George, I think.

By: Lorraine St-Jean

Lorraine St-Jean — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 23:42:57 +0000

Our main family home was a good house,but with the abuse & violence brought on heavy grief. I was relieved to hear that after it was sold,it was bulldozed down and 2 houses built on the property. I don’t think I would want to be in a house that had anger ,pain , a bad death in it. A Home should be a safe haven, to nurture good feelings..that’s my point of view.

By: Ronald Taylor

Ronald Taylor — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 22:17:47 +0000

In August of 1989 we rented a very custom waterfront house on Ships Point Road, Fanny Bay. Shortly after moving in, our 9 year old daughter was on the beach, and a neighbour told her about the murder. We were shocked, but continued to live there until November, when we found a house to buy. We did confirm the story, and eventually discovered all the sordid details. A single gay 55 year old man was bludgeoned to death by his 20 year old boyfriend. This caused quite a local media frenzy. The house is still standing.

By: Susan Smith

Susan Smith — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 01:36:40 +0000

In reply to Doug Parks. I was also thinking of the Blackman murders while reading this article.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 22:37:31 +0000

I would not live or biy a home or property where anyone has been murdered
In my opinion homes or any other building where murder has occured should be demolished

By: jmv

jmv — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 17:01:29 +0000

Murder is unfortunately all too common, almost to the point of being mundane. If you start mapping murders over 20 years, 50 years, 100 years, they will appear like a scattergraph, wherever people live.

There are times when buildings should be demolished, sites memorialized, and publicly remembered, but there are also times when the site of a murder, if it is a home, should be left to live out the rest of ‘its natural life’. Of course, the life of a person far outweighs the life of a house, and houses can’t be sentenced to murder; if a demolition can be avoided, it is a reprieve for all the work that went into the home.

ps: Great photo Jesse!

By: Brad Williams

Brad Williams — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 15:50:02 +0000

I personally dont think I would buy a home in which a murder was committed. Dying naturally is one thing, but the thought of evil in the home for even a short period of time would disgust me. Ask a hundred questions before buying. Having said all this, murder mysteries set in old houses is one that draws attention to the reader, probably a sense of morbid curiosity sets in.

By: Doug Parks

Doug Parks — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 15:33:57 +0000

What time slot will you be on at NW? \
The Condo where the Surrey Six were murdered
The home in Coquitlam where Blackman murdered 6 family members. The shiny new subdivision built on top of the Pickton farm.
The huge development in New Westminster built on top of the Woodlands property where many children were tortured
You can add these to your list and NO way I would want to live in any of these locations