Finding Houses Where People Have Been Murdered

Photo of Douglas A. McIntyre
By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Published
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them.

In an age when people can buy a $100 million apartment in Manhattan and $25,000 houseboats on the Ohio River, there might as well be a service to find houses where people have been murdered, or committed suicide, no matter how morbid

DiedinHouse.com is a service for buyers who want to look at homes where someone has been murdered or a suicide has happened. It is presumably a small market, so likely DiedinHouse.com. It has gotten a great deal of media coverage, mostly likely because of people’s interest in the morbid, more than buying possibly haunted houses.

For those who are fascinated by ghosts, the service claims it has a utility to find them:

DiedinHouse.com is the first of its kind, web-based service that helps you find out if anyone has died at an address before you decide to buy or rent the property. The site is also used by paranormal investigators, ghost hunters and those who believe they are experiencing paranormal activity.

The site owners presume that sex offenders should be added to the list of:

Each DiedinHouse.com Report Includes Past Fire Related Incidents, Reported Meth Lab Activity, Records of Death Occurrences and a List of Names Associated to the Address!

And, the sex offender service is in the works.

[nativounit]

Not surprisingly, the “Amityville Horror” house which is for sale in Amityville, NY, and was the location of a famous horror movie is the poster child for DiedinHouse.com. In reality, it is a bad example for the site’s value, since the deaths there were only fake.

On the other side of the morbid interest coin, there are those who believe property values can be cut by homes in which people have been murdered. It is something which should be discovered by a normal home inspection. However, the existence of DiedinHouse.com may be a sign that is not true

[wallst_email_signup]

 

Photo of Douglas A. McIntyre
About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

Featured Reads

Our top personal finance-related articles today. Your wallet will thank you later.

Continue Reading

Top Gaining Stocks

MU Vol: 39,686,069
COIN Vol: 8,740,254
ORCL Vol: 28,320,998
EBAY Vol: 16,619,794
TSN Vol: 3,551,974

Top Losing Stocks

NCLH Vol: 44,848,524
UPS Vol: 13,858,195
FDX Vol: 3,900,187
CHRW Vol: 3,549,509
L Vol: 753,227