Murder Mansion

This mansion was built in 1918 with a Neo-Classical Revival style. Sadly, this mansion is not remembered for its architectural history but instead remembered for the gruesome murder that occurred here.

In March of 1985 a 13-year old boy went missing. His adopted parents put his face on milk cartons and fliers throughout the state. They said that he ran away with some friends to another state. However, their biological son was telling people that he witnessed his father punch his adopted brother in the head. He went on to say that after his father told him to go to his room he later seen his father outside covered in dirt with a shovel in his hand.

After the house was damaged by a fire a few years later the couple sold the house in October of 1993 to a man that enjoyed restoring historical homes in his free time. The man sent a crew to assess the damage. At the beginning of the new year (1994) two guys from the crew wanted to get underneath the house to inspect it for termite damage. When they got under the front porch they found a soft spot of dirt. One of the guys had heard rumors that there was buried treasure or body somewhere on the property. He started digging in hopes for treasure. Instead of treasure being found he found a pile of bricks on top of a plastic bag. Inside the plastic bag the skeletal remains of the missing boy wrapped in a Disney blanket.

The police didn't have to go on a manhunt for the couple because they had been arrested a week prior to the body being discovered for arson. Police believed that the couple set the house on fire to claim the $119,000 insurance policy they purchased a month prior. The biological son would testify against his father. The father claimed that his biological son made up the story and that the state investigators forced the son to testify against him. For 5 years the father bounced from one mental hospital to another mental hospital to establish his fabricated mental illness prevented him from standing trial. In 1997 the father was convicted of murdering his adopted son. An appeal hearing in 2001 found him guilty also. A day after the appeal ruling the father hung himself with his bedsheets in his jail cell.

When the boy disappeared in 1985 his biological mother was not notified. She didn't know that he had been missing until his remains were found in 1994. Such a tragic ending to a once beautiful and historical mansion.

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