Disturbing reason $2.4 million California mansion has been left vacant for 60 years
Topics: Crime, US News, Los Angeles, True crime
Mia Williams
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Topics: Crime, US News, Los Angeles, True crime
A multi-million dollar California mansion has been left empty following its sinister history.
A luxury mansion in the suburbs of Los Angeles has been left with no tenants for 60 years, with the current owners still refusing to live inside it.
The pricey home, called 2475 Glendower Place, comprises five bedrooms spread out across 5,000 square feet.
It has been on the market several times over the last decade, and each time a new buyer made the purchase, they left it empty before trying their best to re-sell it.
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Having not been lived-in for six decades, the building has started to deteriorate.
There happened to be a yellow wood staircase which can be seen through an arched window, which showed the decay.
The current owners attempted to put it on the market in 2022, but failed to generate a purchase.
Built in 1925, the history of the house is marked with blood, which seems to be the reason people are steering clear of the bargain.
The first official owners were a couple named Harold and Florence Schumacher, who used it as a family home.
This was until the couple died within weeks of each other in 1928.
And it gets even freakier…
Two years later, magazine editor Welford Beaton and his son Donald moved into the home.
But not long after their residence, Donald developed an infection and died at just 21-years-old.
The story became particularly sinister in 1956, when physician Harold Perelson, his wife Lillian, and their three children, Judy, Joel and Debbie, moved in.
At the time, Harold’s medical business was in heavy debt, which was putting severe strain on their family life.
Judy, 18, documented this in a letter to a relative, detailing how the family's financial hardships had caused issues between her parents.
On December 6, 1959, Harold struck his wife Lillian with a ball-peen hammer as she slept, killing her.
He then moved onto Judy’s room where he attacked her, but she managed to survive.
The screams woke her younger sister Debbie, who the father assured ‘Go back to bed, baby - this is just a nightmare.'
After fleeing to a neighbours house, Judy’s wounds were treated by the occupier, Marshal Ross.
By the time Ross had called the police and they arrived to arrest Harold, he had swallowed 31 pentobarbital tablets and suffered an overdose.
Records show the father-of-three had spent a week in a mental hospital just a year prior.
He was given chlorpromazine, an antipsychotic used to treat schizophrenia.
The LA Times coined the property the 'Los Feliz Murder Mansion’.
