This week, a luxury hilltop mansion in Beverly Hills, California turned heads after it was put on the market for $85million.
The stunning property looks straight out of Netflix’s Selling Sunset, but harbours a dark secret, sitting on the same lot where the grisly Manson family murders took place in 1969.
While the original house was demolished following the murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger, Jay Sebring and Wojciech Frykowski, other homes across the world have been left to rot after witnessing bone-chilling crimes.
Here we reveal the shocking stories behind the multi-million pound houses that no one wants to live in.
Los Feliz ‘Murder Mansion’
Dr Harold Perelson was a successful physician, with a wife and three children, when he moved into a Spanish style mansion in the sought-after Los Feliz neighbourhood in Los Angeles.
But on the night of December 6, 1959, at 4.30am, Perelson bludgeoned his sleeping wife Lillian, 42, to death with a hammer before attempting to murder his three kids.
After killing Linda, he walked calmly into his 18-year-old daughter Judye’s room and attempted to smash her skull.
Unlike her mother, Judye screamed after the first blow, loud enough to wake her younger brother and sister Debbie and Joe
Perelson told Debbie to go back to sleep, saying she was having a nightmare, but in the chaos Judye managed to escape and alert the neighbours, who called the police.
Police found the two younger children waiting, unharmed, in the lobby and Perelson lying dead beside his blood-soaked wife, having overdosed.
Two years after the murder-suicide, the house was sold to a couple named Julian and Emily Enriquez, who never moved in.
Their son Rudy inherited the property, in 1984, but told the LA Times in 2009: “I don’t know that I want to live there or even stay here,” adding that he used it for “storage”.
Those who were brave enough to peak inside the house – estimated to be worth £1.9m – report a household stuck in the 1950s, complete with the original TV and Christmas presents brightly wrapped and left untouched ever since.
The house was recently cleared before being put on the market.
